The days are getting longer and the temperatures are getting warmer, and in the next two weeks the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division will be adding boats and runs to some of its most popular coastal routes. On May 13, the Hatteras Inlet ferry will be switching from hourly departures to runs every […]
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County Manager Bobby Outten presented his proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 at the Dare County Board of Commissioners’ meeting on Monday, May 5. Outten outlined a plan that maintains the current property tax rate of 43 cents, the 10th lowest in the state, and also keeps the board’s priorities, including: Maintaining, but not expanding, […]
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OCRACOKE– Ruth Louis Erding, 92, died Thursday, May 8, 2014 at W.R. WinslowMemorial Home. Born in Baltimore, Md., she was the daughter ofthe late Henry Paul and Doris Rebecca Jones Derschinger and was thewife of the late Cantwell Howard. Mrs. Erding spent the past53-three years living and working on Ocracoke Island where she had manyfriends […]
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BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK The suit and tie were one thing, but Gov. Pat McCrory wasn’t about to keep on his shoes during a brief visit Thursday morning to an Oregon Inlet beach. “It’s great having my toes in the sand right here in Dare County,” McCrory said, standing on the south side […]
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Stan Ellsworth is an unlikely ambassador of scholarship. He is a biker on a Harley Davidson dispensing American history lessons on his television show “American Ride.” Ellsworth, whose show is on the BYU television network, was on Ocracoke Wednesday to film a segment about Blackbeard and his connection to Ocracoke. “A lot of folks don’t […]
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There were a wealth of stories told last weekend in Hatteras village at the second annual Hatteras Storytelling Festival. About 170 people came to the Hatteras Civic Center from Friday through Sunday, May 2-4, to hear tales from the island and eastern North Carolina from those who wrote about them to those who lived them. […]
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Voters in Dare and Hyde counties each supported statewide winners in Tuesday’s primary election, but Hyde’s electorate proved to be more engaged. The percentage of turnout in Hyde was more than twice that of Dare: 34.74 percent versus 16.26 percent. In the most widely-watched statewide race, Thom Tillis, Speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives, […]
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Voters in Dare and Hyde counties each supported statewide winners in Tuesday’s primary election, but Hyde’s electorate proved to be more engaged. The percentage of turnout in Hyde was more than twice that of Dare: 34.74 percent versus 16.26 percent. In the most widely-watched statewide race, Thom Tillis, Speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives, […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The North Carolina Department of Transportation is repaving a section of Highway 12 in Frisco and another section of the road in Hatteras village as part its 2014 plan for resurfacing Dare County roads. This year’s Dare resurfacing contract was awarded to Barnhill Contracting for $1.22 million. Part […]
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The Hyde County commissioners last night approved paying for the two days of lifeguards that the National Park Service will not provide this summer. In a 3-2 vote, the commissioners voted to pay out of Ocracoke Occupancy Tax monies the estimated $10,000 for weekend lifeguard coverage. The Park Service announced late last year that it […]
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