Governor Roy Cooper and Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) announced a new COVID-19 County Alert System to pinpoint counties with the highest levels of viral spread and offer specific recommendations to bring numbers down. This system will help give local leaders another tool to […]
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The Dare County Sheriff’s Office has been informed of another Scam by mail. On its face, the document appears to be an official document coming from a Dare County entity, which it is not. The letter is missing a lot of the information that an actual notice would have. For example, it only has a […]
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KITTY HAWK — Longtime beach resident and surfer, Miles W. Gabriel died in Kitty Hawk Saturday, November 14, 2020. Miles was 54 and graduated from Manteo High School. His survivors include his mother Karen C. Gabriel of Fredericksburg, VA, two sisters, his brother and other relatives and friends. The family will be honoring Miles’ preference […]
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Dare County released the following COVID-19 update for Tuesday, November 17, which details the county’s most recent active cases, testing efforts, and additional community information. Data Analysis The number of new COVID-19 cases in Dare County has continued to trend in the wrong direction for the past several weeks. This past week there were 108 new […]
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It is hard to know exactly where to start when so many records are being broken in the OBX real estate market. First and foremost, we have surpassed the 2005 record YTD total volume sold, having seen an astronomical $1.18 BILLION. October saw the highest monthly units sold at 456 which is an 104% increase […]
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May 13, 1972 – November 13, 2020 MANTEO — Leslie Elwood Austin died suddenly on Friday, November 13, 2020, in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center from heart complications brought on by COVID-19. He was 48 years young. Left to cherish precious memories are his wife Angie Reid Austin of the home, son Davis Elwood Austin (Rebecca […]
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Harvard University released data Monday showing Dare County in the “red zone” for daily new cases of COVID-19. University researchers are mapping coronavirus risk by state and county across the country. When the website was first launched in July, four of North Carolina’s 100 counties were in the red zone. Now there are 42 in the zone, […]
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The Buxton Transfer Station, the C&D Landfill in Manns Harbor and the Manteo Recycle Yard will be closed on Thursday, November 26, Friday, November 27 and Saturday, November 28 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Dare County Public Works, which provides trash collection for the unincorporated areas of the county and the Town of Kitty […]
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In celebration of Geographic Information System (GIS) Day on Wednesday, November 18, the Dare County Department of Information Technologies GIS Division has developed a new Outer Banks Shipwrecks Map. This interactive map, which resembles a historic treasure map, gives users the opportunity to explore some of the estimated 3,000 shipwrecks in the Graveyard of the […]
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Dare County announced 10 new positive COVID-19 test results on Monday, November 16, bringing the total number of cases in the county since the pandemic began to 904. The 10 additional cases consist of 8 residents and 2 non-residents, and include the following: 1) resident, 65 older, male, hospitalized 2) resident, 25-49, female, home isolation 3) […]
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