After having been closed down for almost three years, the Hatteras Village Medical Center will reopen in mid-November as a private, non-profit community-based corporation, run by a local board of directors. Earlier this week, the board signed off on a health care provider for the new center. She is Margaret Jazayeri, a 38-year-old physician’s assistant […]
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Griggs Lumber takes over Dare Building Supply Dare Building Supply Co. closed its doors earlier this year after almost 50 years in the Hatteras community, a loss mourned by builders, repair people, and do-it-yourself folks. However, on Sept. 23, the building supplier reopened as Griggs Lumber, and the new owners are hoping for a seamless […]
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A coastal low brought high winds and torrential rains to Hatteras and Ocracoke islands yesterday, last night, and into today, but Highway 12 remained open. According to the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Facebook page, 8 to 10 inches of water covered both lanes of Highway 12 just south of the temporary bridge after this morning’s […]
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BUXTON– Ormond White Fuller, 90, passed away at home surrounded by her threedaughters and family on Oct. 8, 2013. She is survived bydaughters, Rauna Fuller, Marla Whitehead and husband, Corky, MaryOrmond Morgan and husband, Tim, all of Buxton. She is alsosurvived by her sister, Carol White Dillon of Buxton. She adoredher grandchildren, Courtney Whitehead, III, […]
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A low pressure area off the southeast coast will move slowly north as the week goes on, bringing moderate to strong northeast winds and a chance of minor coastal flooding on northern Hatteras Island. According to the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Facebook page, Highway 12 was open and passable in the area of the S-curves […]
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A crowd that Park Service Hatteras District Ranger David Carter put at 100 to 150 people marched peacefully down Lighthouse Road, past barricades, and out to the closed beach at the site of the old Cape Hatteras Lighthouse about mid-day on Saturday, Oct. 5. There were no incidents, Carter said, and after milling around on […]
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Unless you have been in a cave or completely unplugged from the world, you must know that there has been a massive federal government shutdown that has totally closed down the beaches and other facilities at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Technically, all of the seashore beaches are closed, but the Park Service is not […]
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Here on Hatteras and Ocracoke in recent years we?ve had more than the usual number of reasons to feel that we are under siege by forces beyond our control. For the last three years, we?ve seen hurricanes take out our fall shoulder season. Two ? Earl and Irene — wiped out the important Labor Day […]
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By all accounts, the third day of the federal government shutdown that has closed the beaches and other facilities at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore was uneventful again. Although all beaches and parking areas are technically closed to the public, folks continued to park at many and walk over to the beach. Again, they were […]
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The second day of the federal government shutdown that has closed all the Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches was another perfect beach day. And it seemed that plenty of people were managing to get to the beach by finding a place to park, closed or not, and walking over the dunes or through private property. […]
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