Hyde County will receive $2.08 million in grant money from the Golden LEAF Foundation for Hurricane Dorian repairs. The awards are part of a total $2.975 million for disaster recovery and two job creation projects that the Golden LEAF board approved at their meeting last week. All together, these projects will assist five counties recovering […]
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The Dare County Waterways Commission, accompanied by representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT), met in the Fessenden Center Annex in Buxton on Monday night to discuss recent developments in dredging projects throughout the county. Unfortunately, these entities have all have faced obstacles […]
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The Coast Guard is searching for a possible missing vessel after being alerted by an unregistered emergency position indicating radio beacon and finding debris approximately 126 miles southeast of Wilmington, Tuesday morning. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard District Five command center in Portsmouth, Virginia received the distress alert at approximately 11 a.m. Watchstanders issued an […]
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The N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) will begin placing additional sand and sandbags along portions of N.C. 12 on Wednesday on Ocracoke Island in response to lingering effects from Hurricane Dorian. The project is designed to protect four segments of the roadway damaged by Dorian and a subsequent storm in November. The project will involve […]
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Cape Hatteras Secondary School recently held their 2020 Homecoming, and announced their Homecoming court representatives during the event. The court consists of ten couples chosen by CHSS peers to represent the student body, and the 2020 Homecoming Court included the following students Freshmen, class of 2023: Garland Midgett and Chloe Flythe Sophmores, Class of 2022: […]
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The STAR Center sea turtle hospital at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island reopened to visitors Monday, weeks after a mass stranding of cold-stunned sea turtles overflowed the facility. There are now 88 sea turtle patients in the center’s care. In mid-January, more than 100 sea turtles were found cold-stunned on the Outer Banks […]
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A bald eagle remains in critical condition after being rescued in Camden County on Feb. 9 by Hatteras Island Wildlife Rehabilitation’s Lou Browning. Suffering from lead poisoning as well as dehydration and malnutrition, Browning said the raptor has little chance of survival, but is currently being treated in an ICU chamber at his Hatteras Island […]
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Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, Autumn, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on Autumn, 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/
One-stop absentee voting, more commonly known as early voting, begins on February 13 in Dare County, roughly three weeks away from the March 3 primary day. During the early voting period, any registered voter can cast an absentee ballot in person on select days prior to Election Day. Unlike on Election Day, when registered voters […]
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AVON — Arlene Janet Donahue Williams, 93, died Saturday, February 8, 2020, peacefully at home with family at her side. Arlene was the daughter of Errold and Hilda Donahue of Bethel, ME. She was born December 22, 1926 in Albany, ME. She graduated from Gould Academy and was the mother of eight children and homemaker. […]
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