At 8:59 a.m. on Friday morning, Sept. 11, 40 Outer Banks firefighters began climbing the 257 stairs to the balcony of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse to remember their brethren and others who died in the terrorist attacks of 14 years ago. It was a mostly cloudy morning, but it was warm and muggy as they […]
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Forty-two thousand dollars a day — $210,000 a week — and the price tag keeps getting higher. That is what the General Assembly’s Legislative Services is reporting that it is costing to continue convening the North Carolina General Assembly, so that it can keep trying to nail down the state budget to a document that […]
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Back in the spring when Cape Hatteras National Seashore natural resources staff members were considering what modifications they could make to wildlife buffers to meet the requirements of legislation passed by Congress in December, they had no idea what they would be in for come mid-summer. One of their modifications that became effective in mid-June […]
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore law enforcement rangers are looking for a dog that bit a 2-year-old boy in the face on the beach in Waves about noon on Thursday. According to Tim Havens, NPS acting chief ranger, Cape Hatteras National Seashore officials are being assisted by Dare County Animal Control and the Dare County Sheriff’s […]
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Labor Day has come and gone and the official 2015 tourist season has come to an end on the Outer Banks, even though, according to the calendar, we still have a few weeks of summer left. The road traffic during the week is already much lighter. Schools are back in session, and the weekends are […]
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State education officials released the results of the second year of the troubling A-F school grading system last week, and just like the results last year, they are more of a statement about poverty than a meaningful measurement of how well students are doing at school. Just over 98 percent of the schools that received […]
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The kids are back in school, the days are getting shorter. Autumn is coming to the North Carolina coast, and with it comes annual schedule changes for four of the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division routes. Here’s a list of the scheduled changes: Sept.r 15 — The Cedar Island-Ocracoke and Swan Quarter-Ocracoke routes […]
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The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries has certified a new state record jolthead porgy. Randy Brock of Pickens, S.C. reeled in the 14-pound, 14-ounce fish May 27 while fishing off Calabash. The fish measured 26 inches from the tip of the nose to the fork in the tail and had a girth of 24 […]
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The annual Day at the Docks celebration in Hatteras village was the topic of the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” on Sunday, Sept. 6. The guest for the interview was Jon Kelmer, who is the chairman of the Day at the Docks Committee of the Hatteras Village Civic Association. Day at the Docks […]
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The State Board of Education released accountability scores for the 2014-2015 school year on Wednesday, Sept. 2. Dare’s overall proficiency composite score of 63.5 percent is the 16th highest score in the state, according to the 2014-2015 Performance Composite District Ranking. In her first review of Dare County’s scores, Superintendent Dr. Sue Burgess remarked in […]
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