Five contests loom for Dare Commissioners, Ed Board A flurry of eleventh-hour filings has left Dare County voters with a pretty full ballot of candidates to choose from in the upcoming 2020 elections. The filing period for those who want to run in the 2020 election cycle ended on Friday, Dec. 20. With four seats […]
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The history of Christmas on Hatteras Island is as rich and diverse as the history of the residents on the island themselves. European Elizabethan Christmas traditions were introduced to Hatteras not that long after the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano discovered the tiny island and its friendly inhabitants, the Hatterask, Coree, and Croatoan Native Americans […]
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More than 40 cold-stunned sea turtles were found and transported to the Network for Endangered Sea Turtles (NEST) Rehabilitation Center on Friday morning after Pamlico Sound temperatures throughout Hatteras Island significantly dropped overnight. The coordinated effort by local and northern Outer Banks volunteers is a regular endeavor during the winter months, when the occasional freeze […]
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This is a story about a huge disaster that could have easily been averted. It is a story with negatives and positives. It is a story of a captain’s confusions, the terror of panic, and the avoidable loss of thirty human lives. Unhappily, it was on Christmas Eve. Ironically, it took place in a year […]
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June 8, 1943 – December 19, 2019 BURLINGTON — Larry Dean Whitt of Burlington, NC, formerly of Manteo, NC, went to his heavenly home on December 19, 2019, at Alamance County Regional Hospital after battling courageously with a long illness. Born in Guilford County, NC on June 8, 1943, he was the son of the […]
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A slot limit for recreationally-caught striped bass will go into effect Jan. 1 in North Carolina ocean waters. Fishermen will be allowed to possess one striped bass per person per day that is at least 28 inches and less than 35 inches total length (fishermen may not keep a 35-inch fish). For the specific regulation, see Proclamation FF-54-2019. […]
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The number of bluefish recreational anglers can keep per day along the entire Atlantic coast will be significantly cut in 2020 after projections that total catches will exceed an annual harvest limit set by regulators. Last week, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council recommended and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission approved a three-bluefish daily limit […]
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A freeze warning has been issued for the Outer Banks which is in effect from 11 p.m. Thursday until 9 a.m. Friday, per a recent update from the National Weather Service. Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 degrees are forecast from the northern Outer Banks to Ocracoke Island, and freezing conditions could possibly damage unprotected […]
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With the candidate filing deadline for the 2020 general election approaching, which is this Friday at noon, only one candidate has filed for the three county commissioner elections. Two of the incumbents, Tom Pahl (Ocracoke) vice chair and Earl Pugh Jr, chair (Lake Landing) have announced that they will not seek reelection. The third, Benjamin […]
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February 7, 1937 – December 17, 2019 MANTEO — Bernard Flowers Austin, Sr., 82, of Manteo, NC went to his Heavenly Home on Tuesday, December 17, 2019. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 7, 1937, to Eyrie Peele and Leslie Davis Austin, Sr. Although born in Virginia, he was proud to tell everyone […]
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