Governor Roy Cooper today signed Executive Order No. 138 to modify North Carolina’s Stay At Home order and transition to Phase 1 of slowly easing certain COVID-19 restrictions effective Friday, May 8 at 5 pm. Certain businesses remain closed as the state continues battling COVID-19. “COVID-19 is still a serious threat to our state, and Phase 1 […]
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Team members of the Outer Banks National Scenic Byway project shared some good news at a virtual meeting on Tuesday, stating that 40 additional exhibits and panels were going to be installed along the coastal route within the next several months. The new exhibits, (which include orientation panels as well as community information panels), are […]
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Virginia Hale Satterfield Williams, age 100, formerly of Elizabeth City, NC died Sunday, May 3, 2020 at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA. She was born in Danville, VA on November 1, 1919 to the late William Satterfield and Nellie Hale Satterfield and was the wife of the late Otis Lydell Williams. She […]
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To assist N.C. Division of Motor Vehicle customers and partners in dealing with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, a provision included in the COVID-19 bill signed into law today by Governor Cooper grants a five-month extension of the expiration date on more than two dozen DMV credentials. The bill also allows the DMV to […]
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The Hyde County Commissioners Monday night agreed to allow visitors to mainland Hyde starting at 5 a.m. on Wednesday and will work with Dare and Currituck counties to lift the visitor restriction on Ocracoke before Memorial Day, possibly on May 21. Hyde County Manager Kris Nobel will work with the two counties as to the […]
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KILL DEVIL HILLS — Janet P. Higgins,77, passed away unexpectedly on May 4, 2020 in Kill Devil Hills NC. She was born in Elkin, NC, daughter of Charles and Lillian Poplin. She was pre-deceased by her husband Bill Higgins. She was survived by her brother, Charles C. Poplin, Jr (Theresa); daughter Ricki Bittle (David); sons […]
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KILL DEVIL HILLS — Carol A. Byrd, 80, passed away Thursday, April 30, 2020 after a long journey of Alzheimers Disease. Carol was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 16, 1940 and was the daughter of the late Walter A.B. Hetherington, Jr. and Mary M. O’Hare Hetherington. She is survived by her daughter Alison Byrd […]
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Reprinted and edited from Tradewinds Magazine, 2020, B. Garrity-Blake. Photo courtesy of Susan West. Susan and Rob West live deep in Buxton Woods, where deer wander through the thicket and sedge, frogs sing from a freshwater pond and – if the wind is right – one can hear the crashing of waves from Cape Hatteras […]
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Fifteen lucky fishermen won $100 each in a recent N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries’ Multi-Species Tagging Program yearly drawing. The tagging program randomly selected tag numbers from more than 645 fish tags that were turned in by fishermen in 2019. Three tag numbers were selected from each of the five species that are tagged by […]
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KILL DEVIL HILLS — Raymond Dale Tomblin, 61, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, May 2, 2020. He was surrounded by his loved ones at his home in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. He was preceded in death by his mother, Mrs. Donna L. Tomblin, and his brother, Steve Tomblin. He is survived […]
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