Throughout the summer, Dare County employees often see happy couples climbing the steps at the Dare County Justice Center, headed to the Register of Deeds office where they’ll fill out the necessary paperwork to receive their marriage license. The Register of Deeds office issued 743 marriage licenses during the busy 2012 summer wedding season — […]
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Dare large household pickup will be in October
The Dare County Sanitation Department will be conducting a large household pickup for residential customers only during the month of October. The schedule is: • Oct. 4, Thursday — Manns Harbor, East Lake, and Stumpy Point • Oct. 9, Tuesday — Hatteras, Frisco, and Buxton • Oct. 10, Wednesday […]
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The real story on the $1,000 fine for not evacuating
Despite what you may have read in news reports, there is no new law that would levy a fine if you do not heed a mandatory evacuation order in North Carolina. An e-mail about a Sept. 6 report on the ?new? law by a Norfolk television station went viral on Hatteras yesterday, causing mild concern, […]
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Ocracoke Real Estate: Finding and buying a home By GARY DAVIS
I learned to swim in Silver Lake as a 9-year-old boy in 1956 when my family came for a vacation. Silver Lake didn’t have bulkheads then. We walked across Silver Lake Road onto the beach just across from our cottage and swam from the docks there. Highway 12 didn’t exist, the ponies roamed free around our […]
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Ocracoke School has a new sports program for its students. Volleyball for middle and high school girls began when school started, and games are in full swing until mid-October. Athletic Director Charles Temple was at the stats table during a recent home game in the new gym with Wanchese for the middle school and Bear […]
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Ocracoke School has a new sports program for its students. Volleyball for middle and high school girls began when school started, and games are in full swing until mid-October. Athletic Director Charles Temple was at the stats table during a recent home game in the new gym with Wanchese for the middle school and Bear […]
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Ocracoke School has a new sports program for its students. Volleyball for middle and high school girls began when school started, and games are in full swing until mid-October. Athletic Director Charles Temple was at the stats table during a recent home game in the new gym with Wanchese for the middle school and Bear […]
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Ocracoke School has a new sports program for its students. Volleyball for middle and high school girls began when school started, and games are in full swing until mid-October. Athletic Director Charles Temple was at the stats table during a recent home game in the new gym with Wanchese for the middle school and Bear […]
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Running ferries will be a challenge until dredge gets to Hatteras Inlet
Residents and travelers who use the Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry can expect to see some relief in the Rollinson Channel sometime after mid-October. Roger Bullock, chief of navigation for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, confirmed Monday in an interview that the pipeline dredge Richmond is scheduled to makes its way to the Hatteras Inlet channel after […]
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By CATHERINE KOZAK The Ohio man accused of stabbing and strangling his former girlfriend while vacationing on Hatteras Island over the July 4th holiday had a record of violence with her and another young woman going back to 2004. Nathan Summerfield, 27, a medical sleep technician from Ashland, Ohio, was arrested in August on a […]
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