The National Park Service said this morning that the body of a missing swimmer who was caught in a rip current on Sunday has been located. Park officials said that a visitor reported finding the body at 7:36 a.m. just south of Ramp 23 in the Salvo area. The victim, a 55-year-old visitor from Virginia, […]
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State of Emergency declared in Dare, Matthew still aiming for Outer Banks
Even as powerful Category 4 Hurricane Matthew was bearing down on eastern Cuba this afternoon and preparing to take aim at the Bahamas tomorrow, the Dare County Control Group met and declared a state of emergency for Dare County and all six of its towns. The emergency declarations are effective immediately and allow local officials […]
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Matthew takes aim on southeast coast, Outer Banks
Powerful and dangerous Hurricane Matthew made landfall on southwestern Haiti this morning and is taking aim at western Cuba and the Bahamas before it is forecast to move up the southeast coast of the United States, coming near or just over the Outer Banks late Saturday or early Sunday. The message this morning from the […]
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Hyde issues state of emergency, orders evacuations
RELATED STORIES Matthew takes aim on southeast coast, Outer Banks Powerful Matthew’s impacts on Outer Banks still in question Outer Banks is keeping an eye on Matthew
On Patrol with Hatteras Island’s District Ranger
The team of National Park Service rangers who patrol the beaches and who manage law enforcement on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore never quite know what a day will bring. On a recent Friday afternoon, the assortment of calls that trickled in from the public as well as other organizations, such as the U.S. Coast […]
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Beach access advocacy groups are subject of Radio Hatteras interview …..WITH AUDIO
By JOY CRIST The subject for the interview on Irene Nolan’s Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point, on Sunday, Oct. 2, was public access to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore — for off-road vehicles and pedestrians. The guests were David Scarborough of Avon, treasurer of the Outer Banks Preservation Association (OBPA), and Bill Smith […]
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Coast Guard searching for missing swimmer off Salvo
The U.S. Coast Guard has taken over the search for a missing swimmer off the Salvo beach in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, according to the seashore’s chief ranger Boone Vandzura. Vandzura said a call came in at 10:06 this morning for a water rescue for a man drifting out into the ocean. The […]
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Powerful Matthew’s impacts on Outer Banks still in question
Hurricane Matthew, a powerhouse of a storm that has fluctuated from a Category 4 to Category 5 and back again in the past few days, is still forecast to make a turn and head north, threatening perhaps the entire East Coast later this week. However, its exact path and its impacts the on the Outer […]
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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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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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