Editor’s Note: The Island Free Press is delighted to be working with journalism students and writers from CHSS this year, and will be posting their work in our Commentary & Guest Columns page as they continue to grow into exceptional journalists.
The recreational harvest of red snapper in South Atlantic federal waters will reopen for three days in December 2017, per a press release from the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council. Recreational harvest will reopen 12:01 a.m. (local time) on December 8, 2017, and close 12:01 a.m. (local time) on December 11, 2017. During the three-day […]
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NC State Researcher Seeking Insight and Opinions on Ocracoke’s Tourism Workforce Finding and maintaining quality employees is a challenge for any business, but doing so may be particularly challenging for tourism businesses on Ocracoke. In an effort to support Ocracoke’s tourism industry and its employees N.C. State faculty member Dr. Whitney Knollenberg is working with […]
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An advancing front brought 30- to 50-mph winds overnight and kept Mark Brown awake on his boat that’s docked near Down Creek Gallery. “I didn’t sleep at all, and every 20 minutes had to readjust my fenders,” he said. “Then I looked out the rear and saw this phantom white line go by.” That white […]
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Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum and the Mystery of Theodosia Burr Back in the Spotlight By JOY CRIST By JOY CRIST By JOY CRIST The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum and director Joseph Schwarzer will appear in an episode of “Mysteries At The Museum” on Thursday, November 30, at 9 p.m. on the Travel […]
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Coast Guard assists man aboard sailboat taking on water off of Hatteras Inlet The Coast Guard assisted a man aboard a boat taking on water off Hatteras Island Sunday. Watchstanders in the Coast Guard Sector North Carolina Command Center in Wilmington received notification at 1:35 p.m. that a 46-foot sailboat, with one man aboard, was […]
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Outer Banks Hotline’s Festival of Trees returns to the Outer Banks on Dec. 1 and Dec. 2 at the Ramada Plaza in Kill Devil Hills. Now in its 29th year, Festival of Trees is one of the longest-running benefit events on the Outer Banks. Festival of Trees opens on Dec. 1 at 9 a.m. with […]
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Dare Challenge to expand drug recovery program With the unanimous approval of a requested zoning text amendment by the Dare Board of Commissioners at its Nov. 20 meeting, the Outer Banks Dare Challenge drug recovery program is set to expand to meet the growing demand for treatment. Put simply, the change allows the Wanchese-based […]
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The Dare County Board of Commissioners considered a proposal to alter the winter trash schedule for Hatteras Island and other portions of unincorporated Dare County at their meeting on Monday, November 20. The proposal would reduce residential trash pick-up to once instead of twice a week, and commercial trash pick-up from three times a week […]
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MANNS HARBOR — Jesse “Sonny”Francis Ambrose, 69 of Manns Harbor, North Carolina went home to bewith his Lord and Savior on November 22, 2017 at his residence after ashort battle with cancer. A Dare County Native, he was the son of the late Lawson McCoy Ambroseand the late Mattie Twiddy Ambrose. Sonny was a disabled […]
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