By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN A 71-year-old visitor drowned this afternoon while swimming near the Frisco Pier in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. National Park Service chief ranger Boone Vandzura said that a 911 call was received at 3:24 p.m. that a person was in the water in distress in a rip current. Vandzura […]
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67-year-old man drowns off Ocracoke By IRENE NOLAN
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN A 67-year-old man drowned Thursday afternoon while swimming off the beach on Ocracoke Island. Boone Vandzura, chief ranger for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, said the victim and a younger man were swimming off Ramp 70 near the airport. They were about 60 yards offshore past the breakers, he […]
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Let’s keep the lawyers out of the Rodanthe bridge solution
A group that was recently formed to oppose the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s plan to build a 2.4-mile bridge out into the Pamlico Sound to bypass portions of Highway 12 in north Rodanthe that are prone to being washed out has gotten a lot of media attention about its recent news release that it […]
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PASSENGER FERRY FACTS
Passenger ferries look to be in Ocracoke’s near future, now that the governor has signed the state budget with $3.65 million included to build new fast ferries and the infrastructure needed to operate them between Hatteras and Ocracoke islands. But many questions remain in the community about whether the service, which would charge $15 round-trip […]
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PEA ISLAND INLET BRIDGE
By JOY CRIST Travelers to and from Hatteras Island are noticing ever-increasing activity at the site of two new bridges for Hatteras Island — the Bonner Bridge replacement over Oregon Inlet and the new temporary bridge at the site of the inlet cut by Hurricane Irene in 2011. Construction officially began on the new Bonner […]
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Dare board approves contract for permitting Hatteras dredging
At its meeting on Monday, July 18, the Dare County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a $55,524 contract with Coastal Planning & Engineering of North Carolina (CPE-NC) to obtain permits for dredging to maintain the Hatteras Inlet navigation channels. The board selected the Wilmington company at its June 20 meeting to assist the county in […]
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Roland Dock Sawyer Jr.
July 10, 1931 – July 19, 2016 MANTEO — Roland Dock Sawyer, Jr., 85, passed away on Tuesday, July 19,2016 at his home. A native of East Lake, he was the son of the lateRoland Dock Sawyer Sr. and Irma Pinner Sawyer, who, because of thesaving grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, welcomed […]
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A conversation with the seashore superintendent ….WITH AUDIO
By IRENE NOLAN David Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, was the guest for the latest edition of the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” on Sunday, July 17. The program is hosted by Irene Nolan, editor of The Island Free Press, and the topic was summer at the seashore. Among the […]
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Help the Buxton VFD put their chief over the top
This will be a very short blog from your usually long-winded editor, which seems appropriate for the subject this week — Bryan Perry, chief of the Buxton Volunteer Fire Department, is a man of few words. The guys in the Buxton VFD heard about a way they could honor their chief and they decided to […]
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Cape Point Campground partially reopens
By IRENE NOLAN The National Park Service announced today that it has partially reopened Cape Point Campground in Buxton. The campground has been closed since early June when record rainfall from back-to-back tropical storms left it badly flooded with more than a foot of water in some areas. Today, the Park Service said that the […]
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