Perhaps few were surprised on April 28 when the N.C. Department of Transportation announced that it canceled its 2020 contract for the Ocracoke Express passenger ferry. Financial woes and a pandemic were a bad combination for it to resume this year. Then word got out that the North Carolina General Assembly was working on legislation […]
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Dare County announced three new positive COVID-19 test results on Thursday, June 25, bringing the total number of cases in the county to 69. The three additional cases consist of one non-resident and two residents, and include the following: 1) Male Resident 25-29 years of age, home isolation 2) Male Resident 50-64 years of age, […]
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The Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) announced several recent updates and news items related to recreational activities, closures or cancellations, and seashore conditions on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. News items and events related to the National Seashore for the week of June 25 include the following: Seashore Updates To recreate responsibly, Cape Hatteras National Seashore […]
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The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries has extended the deadline to renew current commercial and for-hire fishing licenses by one month in response to COVID-19. Fiscal year 2019-2020 commercial fishing licenses, for-hire fishing licenses, and permits issued by the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries with an expiration of June 30, 2020 will remain valid until […]
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KILL DEVIL HILLLS — Judith V. Mason, 86, died June 21, 2020, at Spring Arbor in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Ms. Mason was born March 9, 1934 in Rochester, NH to Walter and Marion Abbott. While attending the University of NH, she met Richard Van Lunen, and they were married in 1953. Together they had […]
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Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, Biscuits, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on Biscuits, 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/
You may have heard about the Saharan dust plume making its way across Puerto Rico and headed toward the U.S. this week. The mass of dusty air call forms over the Sahara Desert every year and moves westward across the tropical North Atlantic. The dust plume, which extends about 5,000 to 20,000 feet into the […]
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New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will require visitors from states with high coronavirus infection rates, including North Carolina, to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival, beginning Thursday, the Associated Press reports. “We now have to make sure the rates continue to drop,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday at a video briefing with […]
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The Coast Guard is searching for a crewmember of a tanker ship approximately 400 miles east of Cape Hatteras, Wednesday afternoon. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard’s Fifth District command center received a report from watchstanders at the Coast Guard’s First District Command Center that a man overboard had been reported aboard the tanker ship Hellas […]
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Gov. Cooper announced at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon that North Carolina would remain in Phase 2 of the gradual lifting of COVID-19 restrictions for the next three weeks, and that face coverings would be required statewide in indoor and outdoor areas where maintaining a distance of more than 6 feet is difficult. The decision […]
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