More than 60 costumed riders turned out for Bike the Light…WITH SLIDE SHOW By JOY CRIST More than 60 costumed riders turned out for Bike the Light…WITH SLIDE SHOW By JOY CRIST Another year, another gang of zombie doctors, jellyfish, and pirates taking a leisurely bike ride to the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Saturday, Oct. 13, […]
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Before there were paved roads, before there were bridges, even before there was electricity on Hatteras there was charter fishing. And men named Vernon Willis, Nelson Stowe, Luther Burrus and Ernal Foster took anglers to the Gulf Stream without benefit of radio, Loran, or sonar. These men were the pioneers and the business they began […]
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The Seneca Guns – mysterious booms that rattle windows and nerves of coastal residents – were quiet this past summer. The fearsome rumbles occur with no warning and leave no clues to reveal their origins. To be sure, the next Seneca Guns event will trigger frantic calls to local emergency management agencies. It probably will […]
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The Seneca Guns – mysterious booms that rattle windows and nerves of coastal residents – were quiet this past summer. The fearsome rumbles occur with no warning and leave no clues to reveal their origins. To be sure, the next Seneca Guns event will trigger frantic calls to local emergency management agencies. It probably will […]
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I’ve been scrolling through the Rolodex in my brain of all of the buyers with whom I have worked. With real estate being in a category that I would label as “a major expense,” there are very few impulsive buyers. How exciting it is for an agent to luck into someone who had enough ready […]
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The Seneca Guns – mysterious booms that rattle windows and nerves of coastal residents – were quiet this past summer. The fearsome rumbles occur with no warning and leave no clues to reveal their origins. To be sure, the next Seneca Guns event will trigger frantic calls to local emergency management agencies. It probably will […]
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BUXTON– Timothy Earl Jennette, 53, of Buxton, died Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012 athis residence. Tim was the owner of Jennette Construction. He was a skilled, hands-on craftsman who loved the challenge ofcompleting ambitious projects. He was the grandson of the lastprincipal keeper of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. He was proud ofhis island heritage and loved the […]
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FRISCO– Bradford Taylor Swain Sr. went home to be with the Lord on Oct. 13,2012. He leaves behind to cherish his memory his loving anddevoted wife of over 39 years, Donna Tolson Swain of Frisco; adaughter, Bonnie S. Trout of Nitro, W.Va., and husband Brooks Trout; ason, B.J. Swain Jr. and wife Mary of Ocracoke; […]
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On Oct. 1, the Department of Insurance received a rate filing to increase insurance premiums from the North Carolina Rate Bureau. The Bureau, which represents property insurance companies doing businesses in North Carolina, filed the rate increase for homeowners’, tenant and condominium insurance. The average increase statewide is 17.7 percent, but for the beach and […]
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On Tuesday, Oct. 10, the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries issued a proclamation re-opening the Pamlico Sound large-mesh gill net fishery, which had been closed on Sept. 26 because of four observed interactions between federally protected sea turtles and fishing nets. According to a statement released by the North Carolina Department of Environmental and […]
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