March 11, 1939 – August 24, 2020 WANCHESE — Hattie Hayman Forbes, 81, a native of Wanchese, NC died Monday, August 24, 2020, at Sentara Nursing Center in Barco, NC. Born March 11, 1939, she was the daughter of the late Emma Barnett Hayman and Jefferson Davis Hayman. In addition to her parents, she was preceded […]
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Richard Wayne Gray
January 10, 1944 – August 28, 2020 WANCHESE — Richard Wayne Gray, 76, of Wanchese stepped into eternity Friday, August 28, 2020, at UNC Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, NC. Born on January 10, 1944, to Richard Hilton and Mildred Austin Gray, Wayne was raised by his grandparents Richard Hooper and Daisy Pugh Gray of Wanchese. […]
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Dare Candidate Forums Set Via Zoom
The Dare County League of Women Voters is partnering with the North Carolina Coastal Federation in sponsoring candidate forums via the Zoom webinar platform for the Dare County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education races. “We want to insure everyone’s safety and also afford the opportunity for voters to see and hear their candidates speak and respond to […]
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Division of Marine Fisheries, Wildlife Resources Commission release striped bass stock reports
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission this week released two recently completed striped bass assessment reports. The Albemarle Sound-Roanoke River benchmark assessment and the Central Southern Management Area Stock Report are posted also on the Division of Marine Fisheries‘ website. These reports represent a joint effort between the two agencies, and a working group […]
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Dare County Public Works Labor Day Schedule 2020
Dare County offices will be closed on Monday, September 7, 2020 in observance of Labor Day. Offices will reopen on Tuesday, September 8 at 8:30 a.m. Dare County Public Works, which provides trash collection for the unincorporated areas of the county and the Town of Kitty Hawk, has announced that trash collection will operate on […]
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Night Sky: Jupiter, minor meteor showers, and other highlights for September
Do these look like planets to you? This is M27, the Dumbbell Nebula. First observed by Charles Messier in 1764, it was the first planetary nebula ever discovered. William Herschel coined the name “planetary nebula,” because M27 resembled his newly discovered planet, Uranus. Herschel’s son, John, thought it looked like a dumbbell. M27 is 1,400 […]
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U.S. Coast Guard Assists Disabled Vessel off of Oregon Inlet
On Thursday, August 27, U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet received a call from a 26’ Grady White in distress approximately six miles off of Oregon Inlet, per a recent online report from the station. The vessel in distress began taking on water and was making its way back to the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center. […]
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2 additional COVID-19 cases reported over the weekend, bringing Dare County total to 447
Dare County announced 2 additional positive COVID-19 test results on Sunday, August 30, bringing the total number of cases in the county since the pandemic began to 447. The 2 additional cases are both residents, and include the following: 1) resident, 25-49, male, home isolation 2) resident, 18-24, female, isolation outside of Dare Per the North […]
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High risk of rip currents in effect for Hatteras Island on Monday
With a developing low-pressure system offshore, a high risk of rip currents is in effect from Oregon Inlet to Cape Lookout on Monday, per an update from the National Weather Service (NWS) Newport / Morehead City office. A high risk of rip currents means that life-threatening rip currents are likely, and the surf zone is dangerous […]
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Dare County Arts Council’s Courthouse Sessions are traveling to Hatteras and Ocracoke islands
The Courthouse Sessions, a weekly virtual concert series hosted by Dare Council Arts Council since April, will travel to the southern part of the Outer Banks to feature musicians from Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands in September. “We are three musicians from Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands, unselfconsciously having fun, playing music from the 80s, one of […]
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