The National Park Service Outer Banks Group summer programs are now underway. A wide variety of programs is being offered, including arts and crafts for kids, campfires and night-sky gazing, history and nature walks and talks, and recreational opportunities, such as surf fishing and snorkeling. Summer programs on Hatteras Island at Cape Hatteras National Seashore […]
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UPDATE: It’s now final – free Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry will stay free By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH With the North Carolina House and Senate override of Gov. Bev Perdue’s budget veto, Ocracokers are assured that the free ferry between Hatteras and Ocracoke will remain free. Republicans, who control the state legislature for […]
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Meg and Joe Klea, owners of Dockside Hatteras furniture store in Avon, reported that they are open for business and planning to rebuild a warehouse that was destroyed by fire early Friday morning, June 10. The first alarm in the two-alarm fire went out at 1:36 a.m. When the first unit from Avon Volunteer Fire […]
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Public meetings to provide information about the Pains Bay Fire will be held June 21 and 22 at various locations throughout Dare County. Officials from the North Carolina Division of Forest Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Dare County, including local public health representatives, will discuss the fire, firefighting techniques, smoke drift, and […]
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Few people know Stumpy Point as well as Jasper Hooper, who can claim the mantle of the village’s oldest man. And Hooper says the 70-square-mile Pains Bay wildfire is the worst he can remember since the 1920s. “When I was a little boy, there was a wildfire that burned everything down to its roots,” Hooper, […]
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(Editor’s Note: This week, in honor of Veteran’s Day, we reach back into our archives for a 2011 story on the beginning of the Cape Hatteras Wounded Warrior Vacation Project, which is still going strong on Hatteras Island.) At just 22 years of age, Lance Cpl. Aaron “Danny” Ruck has been through—and survived—more than most […]
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One-stop absentee voting on a liquor-by-the drink referendum in the northern Hatteras Island villages will begin on Thursday, June 23. Voters in Kinnakeet Township, which includes the villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, and Avon, will go to the polls on Tuesday, July 12, to decide whether they want to allow mixed drinks to be served […]
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Stand-up paddleboards have become increasingly popular on the shores of Cape Hatteras over the last several years. They are versatile, easy to learn, and good in a variety of wind and water conditions. As with many other watersports, Cape Hatteras is a perfect place for this growing sport because paddleboarding is fun on the flat […]
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Six years after the Coast Guard vacated Group Cape Hatteras, federal officials are preparing to put its 45-unit housing complex on the market and demolish adjacent base buildings. Dare County had once sought to acquire the property from the federal government to use for affordable housing and county facilities, but negotiations over costs were unsuccessful. […]
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Ocracoke residents received a reprieve June 10 from taking their trash to the convenience site starting July 1—the height of the tourist season—when Hyde County Manager Mazie Smith announced that the plan to discontinue curbside trash pick-up on Ocracoke has been postponed until Jan.1. The commissioners, on May 2, had voted unanimously to discontinue curbside […]
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