When visitors spend time on North Carolina’s coast, they also spend money. Renting lodging, dining locally, recreating, camping and fishing are among the services tourists pay for to experience the state’s coastline. The local spending creates jobs and economic opportunities directly in the surrounding communities, and indirectly as employees spend their income. National parks and […]
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At 5:24 am this morning, Wednesday, June 7, 2017, the body of a teenage male was found by National Park Service staff on the beach just east of off-road vehicle ramp 48 in Frisco, North Carolina. The body has been identified as a 17-year-old from Thailand who was reported missing yesterday, June 6, 2017, after […]
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The Hyde County commissioners last night unanimously approved raising the Occupancy tax to 5 percent effective Jan. 1. This 2 percent will be in addition to the 3 percent tax currently levied on all lodging rentals on Ocracoke–on top of the 6.75 percent sales tax to all hotel room and rental house fees. So, visitors […]
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FRISCO – Mrs. Lois Kliefoth wastaken home with Jesus June 7, 2017. She was 91. Lois was the daughterof the late Frank and Susan Saksek. Her four brothers, and onesister preceded her in death as did her son, Timothy Charles Westlundand her grandson, Derek Westlund. Lois married Rodney CharlesWestlund July 7, 1947 in Cloquet, Minn. […]
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Coast Guard crews and Hatteras Island Rescue personnel are searching for a missing man off Frisco Beach near Ramp 49, which was reported this afternoon. At 1:06 p.m. today, a teenage male swimmer from Thailand was reported missing off the beaches at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Frisco, North Carolina. The individual’s boogie board was […]
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Island historian and raconteur Earl O’Neal Jr., 87, died May 26 in the McCall Hospice House, Simpsonville, S.C. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. June 24 in the Ocracoke United Methodist Church. Born July 27, 1929, O’Neal’s island roots on his father’s side go back to the early 1700s and include many original […]
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November 3, 1927 – June 5, 2017 HATTERAS — Mildred StoweWillis, 89, of Hatteras, NC entered into Eternal Rest on Monday, June5, 2017. Mildred was born November 3, 1927, to the late Fred AngelStowe and Fannie Peele Stowe. Mildred loved God and herfamily. She was a member of the Hatteras Assembly of God Church inwhich […]
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) to analyze whether or not to issue a special use permit (SUP) to North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Ferry Division. The SUP would authorize NCDOT to construct facilities and provide long-term maintenance of a new passenger ferry system within Seashore boundaries. NCDOT has […]
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Mysterious garbage-filled plastic disks that washed up on northern Outer Banks beaches over the recent Mother’s Day weekend had been thrown overboard by sailors on a Navy ship, the U.S. Navy said in a statement issued Thursday. Ted Brown, installations and environmental public affairs officer at U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said in an interview that […]
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