The old Oregon Inlet Life-Saving Station is often confused with the historic Pea Island Station, and this is an extremely common – and highly understandable – mistake. What is pictured here is the Old Oregon Inlet Life-Saving Station. Since it is located on the northern tip of Pea Island, it is natural to assume that it would […]
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Visitors to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS), regardless of vaccination status, are now required to wear masks inside all park buildings, per a recent update from the Seashore. The mandate follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance regarding areas of substantial or high COVID-19 transmission, which includes Dare County, where there is […]
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The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is well underway, and atmospheric and oceanic conditions remain conducive for an above-average hurricane season, according to the annual mid-season update issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service. The latest outlook reflects that the number of expected named storms (winds of 39 mph or greater) […]
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The threat of flash flooding continues for the Outer Banks on Wednesday, and an additional 1-3″ inches of rainfall is expected with locally higher amounts probable, per a recent update from the National Weather Service Newport / Morehead City office. Some locations have already received 4-8″ of rain over the past couple of days, and […]
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CLAYTON — John F. Cornelius was born January 21, 1944, in Bradford, PA, and went to be with God on August 2, 2021, at Wake Med in Raleigh, NC. John served in the Airforce as an airplane mechanic and later in life worked as a movie projectionist and sign designer, running his own company on […]
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This afternoon, a 20-year-old male from Louisville, Kentucky died after a kayak he was in capsized near Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s Haulover Sound Access, located between the villages of Avon and Buxton. Additional details: A kayak carrying the 20-year-old male and two other individuals capsized in the Pamlico Sound. Two out of three of the […]
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Dare County released the following update for Tuesday, August 3, which provides details on recent Coronavirus cases, vaccine data, and more COVID-19 information. Dare County COVID-19 Case Update Dare County continues to see a rapid increase in positive COVID-19 cases. The total number of new positive cases reported in Dare County for the past week […]
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1930 – 2021 KITTY HAWK — Gerald (Jerry) Collin Maloney, of Kitty Hawk, NC, formerly of Rockville, MD, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. He was born in 1930 on Maloney Hill in Nicholson, PA. Jerry met his wife, Joan, now deceased, in Washington DC in 1954. They raised their seven […]
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Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pets of the week, Kittens, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on the kittens, 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/
The Atlantic wahoo is prized by recreational fishermen, with recreational landings totaling more than 2.4 million pounds in 2019, but it’s also sometimes mistaken for another well-known gamefish, and there are a number of challenges related to management of the species. Frequently confused with king mackerel, wahoo are found in tropical and subtropical waters around […]
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