The Avon Fishing Pier will open for the 2021 season on Wednesday, May 26, per a recent online update from pier operators. In previous years, the Avon Pier had a late start to the season due to damage from a number of nor’easters or hurricanes. In 2020, after suffering damage to the roof of the […]
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BY TRACEY PEAKE The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season will see 15 to 18 named storms forming in the Atlantic basin, according to researchers at North Carolina State University. The Atlantic basin includes the entire Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The number of named storms predicted is above the long-term average […]
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In my last column, I waxed poetic about the wonder of springtime forest floor gifts from regions west of Hatteras Island. Now, the revered seasonal gifts from our waters are in season – “softies” or softshell crabs – and everyone is celebrating! They, too, are only here for a brief time, so we ridiculously overindulge. […]
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Dare County released the following update for Tuesday, May 18, which provides details on recent Coronavirus cases, vaccine data, and more COVID-19 information. Dare County COVID-19 Case Update This week’s COVID-19 update includes very promising news. The total number of new positive cases last week was 13, the lowest it has been since the week […]
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Law enforcement rangers at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore), special agents with the National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch (ISB) and the Dare County Sheriff’s Office, seek the public’s assistance on information regarding a recent investigation of an alleged kidnapping that occurred within the Seashore on Wednesday, May 12. Case details: An adult female Seashore […]
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As the summer season gets into high gear on the Outer Banks, the N.C. Department of Transportation will be bolstering its schedules to and from the popular destination of Ocracoke Island on May 25. Service between Hatteras and Ocracoke will increase from 52 to 60 daily departures. The schedule, as of May 25, will be […]
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Erick Emanuel Minerich passed away suddenly on May 16, 2021. He was born August 1, 1928, in Somerset, Colorado, and raised on an acreage near Paonia, Colorado. At the age of 16, he enlisted in the Navy and participated on a small flat-top aircraft carrier and minesweeper in the Pacific Theater during World War II. […]
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Current TV has released a video that highlights both the geographical region off the coast of North Carolina that is known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” as well as the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum located in Hatteras Village on the southern end of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The video takes viewers on an […]
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NAGS HEAD — Sandra Louise Bamonte of Nags Head, NC, died unexpectedly early in the morning on May 14, 2021, at the age of 80. Sandy was born in New Hyde Park, New York on January 22, 1941. She met the love of her life in New York and together they raised four boys. Their […]
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FRISCO — Joshua Caleb Atchison, 36, passed away of natural causes on May 16, 2021 in Norfolk, VA. He was a talented artist and a master woodworker. Besides his parents, Joyce and James Atchison of Frisco, Josh leaves his brother Reuben Orr of Rock Hill, SC; his three sisters Twyla Orr of Gastonia, NC, […]
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