A crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet rescued four men from Virginia Beach yesterday morning after their 26-foot boat capsized in rough inlet waters. The Coast Guard received a call at 11:14 a.m. from a Good Samaritan who had come upon the four clinging to the overturned boat. That boater was able to […]
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A crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet rescued four men from Virginia Beach yesterday morning after their 26-foot boat capsized in rough inlet waters. The Coast Guard received a call at 11:14 a.m. from a Good Samaritan who had come upon the four clinging to the overturned boat. That boater was able to […]
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A crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet rescued four men from Virginia Beach yesterday morning after their 26-foot boat capsized in rough inlet waters. The Coast Guard received a call at 11:14 a.m. from a Good Samaritan who had come upon the four clinging to the overturned boat. That boater was able to […]
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Even by Hatteras standards, Hurricane Irene, which hit the Outer Banks on Aug. 27 of last year was a real monster of a storm that even now continues to affect the island. As the first anniversary of the storm approached, I took a moment to reflect by reviewing notes I kept beginning with the evacuation […]
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Do you remember what you were doing one year ago today? Residents of Hatteras and Ocracoke islands do. They remember all too well. One year ago today, we were glued to our televisions screens and listening to our weather radios. The monstrous Hurricane Irene was making its way across the Atlantic Ocean, and the bull?s […]
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FEMA trailers were a lifeline to several families who were living like nomads after Hurricane Irene, which slammed into the North Carolina coast one year ago. Metal structures that measured only 12 feet by 30 served as temporary homes for several families who crammed into them over the winter while insurance claims were settled and […]
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National Park Service Southeast Regional Director David Vela today announced the selection of Barclay Trimble to be the next superintendent for the Outer Banks Group of national parks — Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Wright Brothers National Memorial, and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Trimble has served as the deputy superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park […]
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At the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Community building on Jan, 30 of this year during a community meeting to help hurricane victims, Billy Layton stood before the group and promised that the North Carolina Baptist Men would be in storm-ravaged area until August. At that time, he had agreed to build houses and to help with any rebuilding […]
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Beginning early Tuesday morning, law enforcement officers from the U.S. Marshals Service, the sheriff’s offices of the affected counties, the North Carolina Division of Community Corrections, and the Plymouth Police Department set out to verify that all registered sex offenders in Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties were in compliance with North Carolina guidelines. Operation […]
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Beginning early Tuesday morning, law enforcement officers from the U.S. Marshals Service, the sheriff’s offices of the affected counties, the North Carolina Division of Community Corrections, and the Plymouth Police Department set out to verify that all registered sex offenders in Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties were in compliance with North Carolina guidelines. Operation […]
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