During National Volunteer Week, April 23-29, the National Park Service celebrates the volunteers that work at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Wright Brothers National Memorial, and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. This past year, these volunteers donated a total of 17,791 hours to the Outer Banks Group! Last year, 363 Outer Banks Group volunteers donated numerous […]
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By Peter Vankevich If the North Carolina General Assembly’s Senate Bill 15 is not passed it could result in a loss of 4.5 teaching positions for Ocracoke School, according to an announcement released Friday by Hyde County. The bill, An Act To Provide For Teacher Allotments For Geographically Isolated K-12 Schools, is scheduled to be heard […]
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The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting in April to present a design modification to the Design-Build contract that has been proposed at the southerly landfall of the bridge over the Pamlico Sound between N.C. 12 in the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, and Rodanthe. The public meeting will be held on […]
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) Superintendent Dave Hallac is excited to announce the Seashore’s first-ever Commercial Services Orientation and Open House. The meeting will take place on Friday, April 28 from 10:00 – 11:30 am at the Hatteras Realty Office in Avon: 41156 Hwy 12 Avon, NC 27915. Superintendent Hallac and Seashore staff welcome all […]
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Dare County Awarded Increase in CRS Ranking Dare County has received notice from FEMA that Dare County’s ranking will increase to Class 7 from a Class 8 in the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS). This increase in CRS ranking will result in a 15 percent discount in the premium cost of […]
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It’s been well documented that Hatteras Inlet has changed drastically in the past 10-20 years or so, and thanks to the internet, there is visible proof. Videos that utilize Google Earth’s Timelapse, (which creates a fast-moving series of images that chronicle how corners of the world have changed over the past 32 years), have surfaced […]
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Cisco, an 8’ 7” immature white shark and one of the stars on the global shark tracker website http://www.ocearch.org, has been pinged – or tracked – several times in the past 24 hours in the Hatteras Island area. In fact, on April 14 at 10:38 a.m., Cisco made a virtual appearance adjacent to the town […]
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May 1, 1937 – April 14, 2017 MANTEO – Arvin Alexander Midgett, 79, of Manteo, NC passed away Friday, April 14, 2017 at Tyrrell House in Columbia, NC. A native of Dare County, he was preceded in death by his mother,Margaret “Blackie” Meekins Midgett; his father, Leonard Wilson Midgett;and a brother, Ephraim “Bud” Midgett. Arvin […]
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COLINGTON – After a long hard fight with cancer, William Thomas Marra,known to most as Tom or Tommy has left for his heavenly journey onFriday, April 14, 2017. He was preceded in death by his parents,Beatrice Gwilliam Marra and William Marra, Sr. With his passing he leaves behind a loving wife, Karyn Schweiker-Marraand seven children […]
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By JOY CRIST It?s an announcement that many island residents have been looking forward to for a very long time – The signed MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) required to dredge the Connecting Channel is in hand, and work is slated to begin around the third week in April. It?s also an announcement that?s been a […]
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