This week, I want to give a shout-out to my old friends, Dewey and Mary Parr, who today closed their “retirement dream,” a shop called the old Gray House in Buxton. It’s a sad time for Dewey and Mary and for all the many friends they have made in the past 25 years, but they […]
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The Night Sky: October is a month for meteor showers
By GERRY LEBING You can expect both the Orionids and the Taurids to put on meteor shows this month. The Orionids meteor shower will be active from the Oct. 4 through the end of the month — and into November. It peaks on the night of Oct. 21. Expect 20 to 25 meteorites per hour. […]
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An Essay on Change and Progress By DEWEY PARR
As I sit in Buxton, and rock on the front porch of the home of my grandparents, Bill and Melissa Farrow Gray, I look across at what used to be called the Dark Ridge Road (now named the Light Plant Road), at the wire jungle of the Cape Hatteras Electric Membership Corporation. I ask myself, […]
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Outer Banks is keeping an eye on Matthew
Hurricane Matthew, which became a named storm just two days ago, unexpectedly strengthened overnight and is now a Category 3 cyclone with winds of 120 mph. According to the National Hurricane Center’s 2 p.m. advisory, Matthew was in the Caribbean, just 85 miles north of Columbia, South America, and was heading west-southwest at 12 mph. […]
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A Postscript to the Essay on Change and Progress By DEWEY PARR
Much has changed in my life and on Hatteras Island since I wrote my “Essay on Change and Progress” 20 years ago. I am now 85 years old, have celebrated 63 years of marriage to Mary, and Mary and I have had 25 years of playing at our “retirement dream, The Old Gray House. We […]
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Outer Banks Angling: Fall has arrived and fish are moving By ROB ALDERMAN
Well, we’ve already had one storm for the year and we might get close and personal with another, but it’s too early to tell. One thing is for sure — the first storm got some fish moving. To the north, anglers on the local piers — Avalon, Nags Head and Jennette’s — have already begun […]
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Guest Column: A letter to fishermen from Marine Fisheries director
(This column is a letter that Braxton Davis, director of the North Carolina Marine Fisheries, wrote to Melba Milak, executive secretary of North Carolina Watermen United, after a public meeting on the state’s fisheries last month in Manteo. The letter was shared with Island Free Press by N.C. Watermen United.) I would like to thank […]
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Abandoned vessel washes ashore in Avon, may have held refugees
A vessel that appeared to be an abandoned refugee boat washed ashore in Avon on Tuesday sans passengers, but with equipment and supplies surprisingly intact. The roughly 20-foot long vessel washed up on the beach in front of Greenwood Place, in between the Avon Pier and Ramp 38. The Avon Volunteer Fire Department and National […]
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Owners Seek to move historic Beachcomber Museum
Never again will there be a beachcomber’s haul on the Outer Banks – or anywhere – to match what Nellie Myrtle Pridgen collected in a lifetime that straddled World War II and the banks’ nascent tourism industry. Her astonishing collection has been housed in a small museum inside the Mattie Midgette Store in Nags Head, […]
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Robert Matthew Kellet
October 19, 1947 – September 27, 2016 OCRACOKE — Robert Matthew Kellett, 68, died on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. No services are planned at this time. Twiford Funeral Home, Hatteras is assisting the family with arrangements. Condolences may be expressed at www.twifordfh.com.
