8 additional COVID-19 cases reported on Monday, bringing Dare County total to 541

Dare County announced 8 additional positive COVID-19 test results on Monday, September 28, bringing the total number of cases in the county since the pandemic began to 541. The 8 additional cases consist of 5 residents and 3 non-residents, and include the following: 1) non-resident, 17 under, male, transferred isolation 2) resident, 25-49, female, home […]

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Trump Confirms NC, Va Drilling Moratorium

  President Trump announces Friday that he is extending the moratorium on offshore drilling to North Carolina and Virginia in this excerpt from his campaign rally in Newport News, Virginia. President Trump has officially extended the moratorium on offshore drilling to North Carolina and Virginia. On Friday, Trump signed a memorandum for the Department of Interior that states, “This […]

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Guest Column: Outer Banks Featured in Educational Video with Local Authority

This story is being written in deep gratitude to Hatteras Island’s award-winning Island Free Press. I have known this media outlet literally from Day One. I knew its first Editor, the late-great Irene Nolan, when she was the editor of the now defunct Island Breeze. I have not only known the succeeding publisher – Donna […]

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Meet the Outer Banks SPCA Pet of the Bubba

Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, Bubba, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on Bubba, 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/

Velina Kay “Kaci” Brennan

October 25, 1953 – September 21, 2020 SOUTHERN SHORES — Velina Kay “Kaci” Brennan, 66, of Southern Shores, NC died Monday, September 21, 2020, at Peak Resources – Outer Banks. Born in Charleston, SC on October 25, 1953, she was the daughter of the late Kay and Mel Grennier. Kaci is survived by her husband, Johnny […]

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Roy Odell Phillips

October 12, 1943 – September 25, 2020 MANTEO — Roy Odell Phillips, 76, of Manteo, NC died Friday, September 25, 2020, at Peak Resources – Outer Banks. Born in Louisville, KY on October 12, 1943, he was the son of the late Leora Vice Phillips and Worth Odell Phillips. A 1961 graduate of Perry High […]

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Peter Alan Groom

AVON — On Friday, September 25, 2020, Hatteras Island lost a dear friend and community member, a devoted father, loving husband, and caring grandfather. Peter Groom was a proud American and veteran. As the tides rise and fall, so do our emotions as we remember all of the wonderful things we love about Pete. He […]

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