FERRY UPDATE: Ocracoke residents and vendors to have priority Dare County’s decision to allow visitors on southern Hatteras Island through Ocracoke via the ferries from Cedar Island and Swan Quarter has created an enormous demand for ferry reservations, especially on the weekends. And the demand for reservation has created issues with vital services and vendors […]
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BRIDGING THE GAPS: Mother Nature is not cooperating with repair efforts on Highway 12
BRIDGING THE GAPS: Mother Nature is not cooperating with repair efforts on Highway 12 Strong northeast winds over the weekend created powerful ocean swells that pelted the Outer Banks coastline for the last four days. For the workers who are putting in long hours to restore road access to Hatteras Island, this is yet another […]
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Many Ocracoke businesses are unhappy with Dare’s visitor re-entry decision By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH While Ocracoke residents and business owners are sympathetic to Hatteras Island’s plight in the wake of Hurricane Irene, many are not happy with Dare County’s decision to allow visitors back to the southern villages via Ocracoke. […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The body of a kiteboarder missing since Sunday evening was recovered yesterday afternoon by Cape Lookout National Seashore staff members. The body of a kiteboarder missing since Sunday evening was recovered yesterday afternoon by Cape Lookout National Seashore staff members. The body of a kiteboarder missing since Sunday evening […]
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UPDATE: An Island Free Press Reader Survey: Hurricane Irene Response
In my blog last Tuesday, I asked our readers to let their voices be heard on Hurricane Irene from the preparation to the response by local and state agencies and other organizations. And did you ever give us a shout out! In fewer than three days online, at early afternoon Friday, we passed the 1,000-mark […]
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Emergency medical team helped islanders for six days
Emergency medical team helped islanders for six days By ANNE C. BOWERS By ANNE C. BOWERS By ANNE C. BOWERS While Hurricane Irene was still terrorizing the entire northeast coastline, a temporary medical team arrived by helicopters on Hatteras to provide around the clock health care at the HealthEast Family Care clinic in Avon. The […]
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Ruby Gray Williams
AVON — Ruby Gray Williams, 99, daughter of Nelson Gray and BettyScarborough and native of Avon, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011at the Outer Banks Hospital in Nags Head. She was a member ofSt.Johns United Methodist Church in Avon. In addition to herparents, she is predeceased by her sister, Selma Sterling. Surviving are her […]
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Beach and soundside access throughout the Seashore:
National Park Service continues to open seashore facilities and access National Park Service facilities continue to reopen at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, after Hurricane Irene shut the seashore down before its Aug. 27 arrival. NPS facilities that reopen on Hatteras Island on Thursday, September 15, 2011: National Park Service facilities continue to reopen at Cape […]
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Chamber joins tourism board in urging county to revisit decision on visitors
Chamber joins tourism board in urging county to revisit decision on visitors The Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce joined the Dare County Tourism Board in passing a resolution urging Dare County to revisit its decision to allow visitors into the southern Hatteras Island villages, beginning yesterday. The Tourism Board passed its resolution Thursday morning, and, […]
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CORRECTION: Visitors to southern Hatteras can still enter by ferry — and make reservations By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Earlier this evening, Dare County Emergency Management issued Hurricane Irene Advisory #35. The headline on the advisory is, “Dare County Public Official Evacuation Advisory Mandatory Prohibition of Hatteras Island Visitors Without Ferry […]
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