Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, Emmett, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on Emmett, and the many other Outer Banks pets currently up for adoption, visit the Outer Banks SPCA website at https://www.obxspca.org/, or their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/obxspca/
Paper nautical charts will soon be sinking into the horizon, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) this month announced its plan to sunset over five years the hard copy maps of the nation’s waterways. Although NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey has for years offered several digital formats for raster charts – that is, […]
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State transportation officials are inviting people to an informational meeting Dec. 5 on the Rodanthe “Jug Handle” Bridge project, which is under construction on the Outer Banks. The Rodanthe Bridge is a long-term transportation solution to severe storms that cause breaches on N.C. 12. The NCDOT is raising N.C. 12 onto a 2.4-mile bridge that […]
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Jane Bell was a vivacious redhead who lived in a tiny house in Greenville back when tiny houses were places where most people didn’t want to live. The kitchen was one of her three immaculately clean rooms, all set in a row and each festooned in rainbow bric-a-brac, much of it collected on flea market […]
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The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 50-year-old man who was reported missing while transiting from New York to Florida aboard his 35-foot recreational vessel, Monday. Michael Bye was reported missing while aboard his boat, the H.M.S. Me II. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard’s Fifth District command center were notified at 7:40 p.m., […]
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At the end of the Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC) meeting on November 4, the BOC agreed to allocate up to $250,000 from the Beach Nourishment Fund to pay for an upcoming study to examine the details and costs of initiating a beach nourishment project in Avon. The allocation for an Avon study stemmed […]
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Two weeks after the federal holiday, Cape Hatteras Secondary School (CHSS) faculty, staff, and students refused to allow Veteran’s Day to go unrecognized. In their annual Veteran’s Day event on Friday, CHSS honored local veterans and active-duty servicemen and women with sustenance, signs, and songs. Veterans were welcomed into CHSS’s cafeteria at 9:00 a.m. for […]
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March 10, 1934 – November 20, 2019 MANTEO — Patricia Basinger Fearing, age 85, died Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at her home. She was the widow of Woodson Bradford (Woodie) Fearing, II, whom she married in 1967. A sixth-generation Charlottean, she was the daughter of the late Thelma Bennett Basinger Hooton and the late Julius […]
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The Oregon Inlet Campground will stay open at Cape Hatteras National Seashore after its customary seasonal closure. The campground usually closes after Thanksgiving weekend, but this year the campground will stay open for the entire year as the National Seashore evaluates a new camping opportunity. All 120 sites will be open for use. One restroom […]
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KITTY HAWK — Carol R. Stanfield Medeiros, 82, of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina passed away on November 22, 2019 at home after a long illness. Carol was born in Springfield, Illinois, daughter of the late Roscoe and Dorothy Stanfield and spent her formative years in Broadwell and Lincoln, Illinois. In 1956 she moved to Washington, […]
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