It was a cold but sunny Saturday afternoon for the 25th annual Hatteras Village Christmas Parade, which was a grand celebration befitting the milestone year and the village’s eagerness to return to normal after the one-two punch of Tropical Storm Hermine and Hurricane Matthew. The stretch of Highway 12 from Teach’s Lair Marina to the […]
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(Dewey Parr and his wife, Mary, owned the Old Gray House Gifts and Shells in Buxton for 25 years. It was their “retirement” project when they opened it up in 1991, and on Sept. 30, they closed the store and moved on to a new “retirement.” You can still check them out on the Facebook […]
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If you haven’t been on Dare County’s website in a while — or if you’ve never been there at all — you will probably be pleasantly surprised at what you will find. This year, the site has gotten a makeover — a new design, along with upgrades and improvements — but not so much that […]
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U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C. has continued his opposition to expansion of the marine sanctuary system off the Atlantic coast. Jones and several congressional colleagues from the Atlantic seaboard are urging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to reject the proposed nominations of Baltimore, Hudson and Norfolk canyons as marine sanctuaries under the […]
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Suzanne Simon, a strategic programs manager at the national organization Restore America’s Estuaries, or RAE, said it began with a “magic wand question.” If given unlimited resources, she asked, how can we help promote the use of living shorelines? A few years ago, Simon began posing the question to leaders in the restoration and management […]
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It’s a time-honored tradition on the coast: holiday dinner with oyster dressing. State environmental officials are encouraging those who partake in this seasonal ritual to take some common-sense precautions when buying, storing and preparing oysters to prevent illnesses caused by environmental bacteria. The same is true for clams. Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus are common, […]
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Dare County has released information on the trash pickup schedule for the 2016 Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The Dare County Recycling Center, located on Driftwood Drive, Manteo, will be closed on Friday, Dec. 23, Saturday, Dec. 24, Monday, Dec 26th, and Tuesday, Dec. 27. The Transfer Station located on Highway 264 West in Manns Harbor and the one located in Buxton […]
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Two newly elected members of the Dare County Board of Commissioners and two re-elected members were sworn in by board clerk Gary Gross at yesterday’s regular meeting. In addition, the board chose its chairman and vice-chairman for the coming year and concluded the meeting with yet another discussion of the Hurricane Matthew debris collection, which […]
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Allen Burrus, who just retired as Hatteras Island’s representative to the Dare County Board of Commissioners, was the guest on the Nov. 20 edition of “To the Point,” a Radio Hatteras interview show, hosted by Irene Nolan, editor of The Island Free Press. After 10 years on the county commission, Burrus decided not to run […]
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North Carolina residents and visitors planning trips to the North Carolina coast in the new year can now find and print the 2017 state ferry schedules online. Residents and visitors will find most of the schedules the same as they were this year, with one notable exception — an extension of the spring schedule on […]
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