In a week of what for many was an overwhelming amount of introduced legislation – some welcomed, some not so much – one bill, even if not signed into law, provided a brief history lesson. Senate Bill 583 is an attempt to gain state recognition of Juneteenth Observance Day in North Carolina. According to the […]
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Toward the end of his comments at today’s special meeting and just before the Board of Commissioners voted on a resolution to ask the General Assembly to authorize a quarter-cent sales tax increase without a referendum to pay for inlet dredging, Chairman Bob Woodard asked the sheriff’s deputies in the meeting room to turn out […]
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The Dare County Sanitation Department will be conducting a large item household pickup for residential customers only. No commercial business debris will be picked up. Please do not interfere with county employees picking up large items. Materials must be at curbside no later than 6 a.m. on the date of collection. There will not be a second day pickup. […]
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N.C. Department of Transportation Secretary Tony Tata has made a nice living from his status as a retired brigadier general. When Tata retired in 2009 after 28 years in the U.S. Army, his former rank and training at The Broad Academy gave him entry into the Washington, D.C. school district. There, he would use his […]
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Businesses owners on Hatteras Island already have to contend with unpredictable weather and periodic road issues, but local kiteboarding businesses say unfair competition may be also undercutting their bottom line. Although it is mostly done under the radar, some out-of-town companies have been sub-leasing large houses to groups and offering kiteboarding workshops, meals made by […]
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The weather has proven to be very much as we expect March to be – all over the place. Scattered semi-warm days followed by much cooler days, a day or so of southerly winds, followed by days of northerly wind. Yep. It’s March. Or even better — it’s spring on the Outer Banks. While the […]
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The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum will be hosting the 2015 Underwater Heritage Symposium that will showcase significant members of the diving community. The symposium will take place on Friday and Saturday, April 10 and 11, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. During the two-day symposium, The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum will formally honor […]
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In preparation for holiday travel over the upcoming Easter and spring breaks, the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division will be enhancing the schedule on its Hatteras-Ocracoke route between March 31 and April 13. The temporary spring schedule will increase the number of daily round-trip runs between Hatteras and Ocracoke from 18 to 26, […]
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By SANDY SEMANS Finance officers for the county and town governments in Dare County have been scrambling to try to determine just how hard local budgets will be hit if Senate Bill 369, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown, an Onslow County Republican, and filed on Monday, becomes law. The bill proposes a three-year […]
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It was not a pretty sight for David Mickey and Sue Dayton the fall day they came upon a large dark object on the Ocracoke beach. Walking closer, they identified what they had spotted as a dead bottlenose dolphin. Disturbed, they called the Marine Mammal Stranding coordinator for North Carolina’s central coast, Vicky Thayer. She […]
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