The North Carolina Department of Transportation will halt traffic on both sides of the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge on Highway 12 over Oregon Inlet at 9 a.m. Monday, March 10, for approximately 30 minutes while the department’s Location and Surveys Unit performs a routine mobile scan of the bridge. In 2012, the department installed scanning […]
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Thoughts on a wintry day
The headline on this blog could just as well have been ?Blah, blah, blah, and blah? because that?s the kind of winter we?ve been having.Of course, everything is relative, and many of our readers to the north and west have had it much worse, but everything is relative. Most locals agree that the winter has […]
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Stacey McKenney Cunningham
HATTERAS– Stacey McKenney Cunningham, 46, passed away Wednesday, March5, 2014. Born in Portsmouth, Va., on July 31, 1967, she was thedaughter of Hunter Ray McKenney and Hilary Rossow McKenney of Red Oak.She was preceded in death by her two brothers, Eric Christopher “Chris”McKenney and Michael Ray McKenney. A loving wife, mother,daughter and sister, she was […]
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Construction underway on permanent bridge at Pea Island Inlet
Crews with the N.C. Department of Transportation and Parsons Construction Group Inc. of Greenville, S.C., have begun preliminary work for the construction of the permanent N.C. 12 bridge on Pea Island in Dare County. Installation of safety fencing and erosion control measures began last week. Crews this week will begin mobilizing equipment to the project […]
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Our Coast: Kayaking Ocracoke in Winter
Summer at Ocracoke finds lots of kayakers plying their paddles along the shores of Pamlico Sound. Residents and tourists alike take to the water. As the temperature falls, the experience of kayaking changes, but there is still plenty to see and enjoy while paddling around the island in the winter. Warmer, waterproof clothes are a […]
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New Park Service report shows economic benefit of parks to Outer Banks
A new National Park Service report shows that 3,050,689 visitors to the Outer Banks Group — Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial — spent $175,341.2 million in communities near the parks. That spending supported 2,469 jobs in the local area. “The Outer Banks Group is proud to […]
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Dare County voters will have lots of choices to make this election year
Dare County voters will have lots of choices to make this election year, and not just one time. Numerous contests are on the ballot for both primary and general election races, from municipal to federal offices, and races with competition outnumber those with no opposition. Candidate filing closed Friday, Feb. 28, at noon. Local voters […]
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Highway 12 in Frisco reopens to through traffic
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Just 24 hours after it closed for the North Carolina Department of Transportation to repair a culvert at Peter’s Ditch in Frisco, Highway 12 reopened to through traffic just after dark this evening. As had been planned, the highway was shut down at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, […]
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