A couple months ago, a friend called me and said she was on her way off island for the first time since the hurricane, and asked if I had any suggestions for her re-introduction to the Outside World. I laughed and said, “Above all else, as long as you remember to wear pants, you’ll be […]
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Island Free Press photographer Daniel Pullen didn’t get to surf or photograph surfing as much as he would have liked from late summer into the fall. Hurricane Irene got in the way. The hurricane came ashore south of Hatteras on Aug. 27, and storm surge from the Pamlico Sound cut several new inlets between Rodanthe […]
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Hurricane Irene took so much from so many islanders, but some Cape Hatteras high school students decided they were not going to let Christmas be one of those things. They have spent the last three months raising money for holiday decorations for storm victims. High school seniors and best friends, Foster Mattingly and Victoria Gaskins, […]
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Several weeks ago, I wrote an article about a part-time Hatteras Island resident and his plan for a fishing pier and ocean center in Hatteras village. Eric Kaplan of Charlottesville, Va., who also has a home in Frisco, is the man with the vision for the Hatteras Island Ocean Center. Kaplan?s idea is that the […]
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National Park Service employees did the last of debris clean-up from Hurricane Irene on the north end of Ocracoke Island on Thursday, Dec. 1. District ranger Kenny Ballance explained that ferry riders had alerted him to large pieces of debris littering the soundside beach near the north end ferry docks. With the help of […]
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The National Park Service has pushed back its target date to implement a final special regulation for off-road vehicles on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore until Feb. 15. The date has been pushed back numerous times as the Park Service, local governments, pro-access groups, islanders, and visitors try to come to terms with the contentious […]
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A revised rule expanding the winter commercial bluefin tuna season by up to two months was filed on Tuesday, Nov. 29, by the National Marine Fisheries Service. The rule, which will be effective in 30 days, allows bluefin to be caught off North Carolina through March 31, or until the January sub-quota is gone. With […]
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AVON– Veda Gray Merrill, 68, died on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 in aChesapeake, Va., hospital. Mrs. Merrill, a native of Avon,was amanager for the Outer Banks Motel and a member of St. John’s UnitedMethodist Church. She was the daughter of the lateBurgessand Amanda Gray. She was also preceded in death by a son,Darrell“Buddy” Merrill, Jr., […]
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As we enter the holiday season, it is a time of the year when our thoughts frequently turn to appreciation for the many things for which we are grateful. With the spirit of the season in mind, I recently looked at the island’s real estate market to see what good news there might be to […]
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Frank Jakob of Salvo was fishing on the beach in the tri-villages about mid-afternoon on Thanksgiving Day when he came across a group of beachgoers trying to help a stranded dolphin back into the water. Jakob called Dare County Communications, which said it would notify the National Park Service and the Marine Mammal Stranding Network, […]
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