It’s safe to say that a full-blown winter found the Outer Banks this year. While the area saw more snowfall last year, this year has been one of the coldest and has broken records in the temperature category. Even as I write this, we barely missed being hit by a considerable snow storm and lucked […]
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Snow, sleet, rain and freezing temperatures reduced work time in the General Assembly this week, but there was still some action on existing bills and more were filed. Little legislative action drew more attention than the Senate’s passage of Senate Bill 2, introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger. The bill, if made into […]
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In a conference call with reporters this week, Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent Dave Hallac shared more details on how exactly the National Park Service intends to comply with legislation passed by Congress in December that would make some modifications in the seashore’s Off-Road Vehicle Plan. The conference call was the first media roundtable meeting […]
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A March 5 workshop in Rodanthe is the first step in the process of use-specific zoning for the villages of Rodanthe, Waves, and Salvo. The Dare County Planning Board and the staff of the Planning Department will host the workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Community Building. “The workshop will be in […]
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“We always waited for the mailboat to come in. That was something that we enjoyed, going and seeing the people who were on it, because it carried some passengers and also some freight for the island people and for the stores. We enjoyed doing it just to get away from home and see what we […]
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The National Weather Service has backed off its wintry forecast for the southern Outer Banks, including Hatteras and Ocracoke, tonight and tomorrow as the third coastal storm in a week sweeps past the area, bringing mostly liquid precipitation. The winter storm watch issued yesterday afternoon was cancelled earlier today and replaced with a winter storm […]
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The second coastal storm of the week left 2 inches of snow on Hatteras and Ocracoke before it turned to freezing rain late this afternoon and began washing away the white stuff. Just as forecast, snow began falling about mid-morning on the islands. From then until mid-afternoon, big, fat snowflakes were falling, swirling around enough […]
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HATTERAS– Lester Bascom Ballance, 92, died on Feb. 24, 2015 at SentaraVirginia Beach General Hospital. A native of Hatteras, he was the sonof the late Victor L. Ballance and Rachel Gray Ballance. Lester retiredfrom the United States Navy as a Boatswain’s Mate Second Class (BM2)and was a survivor of Pearl Harbor. He returned to Hatteras […]
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The National Weather Service in Newport, N.C., has issued a winter weather advisory for portions of eastern North Carolina, including Hatteras and Ocracoke, for Tuesday, Feb. 24., from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Forecasters are expecting about an inch of snow on the Outer Banks with this system, but say that some locations on the […]
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