Fans will get another chance to cheer on Ocracoke resident Charles Temple in his bid to win the “Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions,” beginning on Nov. 2. In May, Temple, 39, the high school English teacher at Ocracoke School, won the first ever Teachers Tournament, garnering $100,000 while competing against 15 other teachers from around the […]
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BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK Bidding on long-vacant U.S. Coast Guard Group Cape Hatteras family housing units in Buxton will be opened in two weeks, with a minimum offer set at $2.5 million. An invitation for bid package was posted late last week on the General Services Administration website, along with a notice about […]
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Ferries returning to normal runs; emergency ferry discontinued The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division routes serving Ocracoke Island will return to normal fall schedules beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, following the reopening of Highway 12 on Hatteras Island. However, two departures on the Pamlico Sound routes will be missed Wed., Oct. 12, due to […]
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The location of the Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation’s annual Fun Run was changed just three days before the event. The run, which had been scheduled in Salvo, was moved to Avon because of a misunderstanding with Dare County about access to the tri-villages. However, supporters of HICF didn’t seem to care which village they raced […]
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IT’S OPEN!!. ……WITH SLIDE SHOW AND VIDEO The scene was happy and triumphant this evening when Highway 12 reopened between Rodanthe and Oregon Inlet for the first time since Hurricane Irene severed this section of road on Aug. 27. In 44 days, the North Carolina Department of Transportation and several subcontractors repaired two major sections […]
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Highway 12 officially reopened to traffic this evening at 6 p.m. By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN IT’S OPEN!! Highway 12 officially reopened to traffic this evening at 6 p.m. Island Free Press writer Anne Bowers reported from the south side of the temporary bridge on Pea Island there were northbound headlights […]
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When Highway 12 reopens, travelers can expect delays for a few weeks By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN When Highway 12 reopens – six weeks after being shut down by damage from Hurricane Irene – it’s a good bet that there will be a steady stream of vehicles in both directions for […]
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Mosquitoes getting under control; no more aerial spraying planned BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK A second and final aerial spraying followed by mercifully cooler temperatures on the Outer Banks appears to have ended one of the worst plagues of mosquitoes in memory. “It was terrible,” Carl Walker, Dare County Vector Control […]
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A Rodanthe man was killed and three others were injured in an accident Tuesday night on the closed portion of Highway 12 south of the breach on the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. The North Carolina Highway Patrol says that Gary Wade Midgett, 44, died when the pickup truck in which he was riding crashed […]
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NCDOT says Highway 12 will reopen no later than Oct. 11 The North Carolina Department of Transportation will reopen Highway 12 no later than Tuesday, Oct. 11. “Our hope is to open before then, but right now we are confident work will be complete on or before the 11th,” said resident engineer Pablo Hernandez. “We […]
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