The North Carolina Department of Transportation christened a new sound-class ferry, the Motor Vessel Swan Quarter, on Monday, Nov. 7, in Manns Harbor. State Transportation Secretary Gene Conti was joined by other state and local officials at the special ceremony. Betsy Conti christened the vessel. “This new ferry will help us further carry out […]
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Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Manager Mike Bryant reminds people that the area around the Pea Island Headquarters/Maintenance/Storage/Intern House at the new Pea island Inlet is closed to the public. “This site has been closed to the public for years — since NCDOT relocated the highway to the west of our buildings and built the […]
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Studio 12 in Avon has been chosen to design and create the ornaments for North Carolina’s tree for the 2011 National Christmas Tree display in President’s Park in Washington, D.C., the National Park Foundation announced recently. A local artist and local youth were selected from each U.S. state, territory, and the District of Columbia to […]
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Ocracoke park ranger Kenny Balance receives regional award Long-time National Park Service Outer Banks Group employee Kenneth C. Ballance has received the 2011 NPS Southeast Region Harry Yount Park Ranger Award. The peer-nominated honor, named after the first known national park ranger, recognizes excellence in the field of “rangering.” Every year each of the […]
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Participants in the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club 54th Annual Invitational Surf Fishing Tournament on Nov. 3-5 faced difficult weather conditions as severe wind and waves battered the coast from a deepening low pressure system that eventually became Tropical Storm Sean. “The east facing beaches were just awful for catching fish,” said Larry Hardham, president of […]
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Hatteras Island residents took the Dare County Commissioners to the woodshed and beat them up a bit on their response to Hurricane Irene. The residents were somewhat more kind to Dare County Emergency Management. In addition, residents did not have much good to say about the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
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Elbert ‘J.E.’ Buckner BUXTON– Jason Elbert “J.E.” Buckner, our beloved husband, daddy and pap leftus to go to be with Jesus in Heaven. He died suddenly on Nov. 7, 2011. J.E.is the son of the late Otto and Della Buckner of Mars Hill, N.C., andwas preceded in death by his brother, Harold Buckner, and sister, […]
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This is the first of the many reports that the Island Free Press will publish about the response to our reader survey on Hurricane Irene. The survey was posted on our website on Sept. 12. From then until we took it offline on Oct. 24, we had 2,211 responses from Hatteras and Ocracoke residents, non-resident […]
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So the first Christmas my family spent on Hatteras Island was, for lack of a better word, a little weird. I was a kid in Massachusetts when our family decided, somewhat spur of the moment, to head south to Hatteras for the holidays. We packed up the presents, the lights, the tinsel, and drove 14 […]
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A coastal storm that moved off the North Carolina coast on Friday and then intensified brought high northeast winds and heavy seas to coastal areas on both Friday and Saturday. Hatteras and Ocracoke were under a wind advisory, heavy surf advisory, and coastal flood advisory for much of Friday and Saturday. The heavy surf advisory […]
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