Grant to pay salaries, benefits for several county agencies The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is popping up on agendas around the state as counties decide how to spend the allocations from the federal government to offset losses or additional needs caused by the COVID pandemic. Dare County has received half of its roughly $7 […]
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1945 – 2022 ELIZABETH CITY AND OCRACOKE — Brenda Ballance Seymour, 76, passed away Wednesday, February 23, 2022, after a short illness at Elizabeth City Health & Rehabilitation. Brenda graduated from Ocracoke High School and later attended Kee’s Business College in Norfolk, VA. She was a member of the Ocracoke United Methodist Church. Brenda moved […]
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The Dare County Public Works Department has announced that large item pickup for the unincorporated areas of Dare County will be held on Monday, April 4, 2022. Due to staffing shortages at Dare County Public Works, the large item pickup will be performed by a private contractor, Southern Disaster Recovery, and there will be a […]
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The 2022 Cape Hatteras National Seashore camping season at the Cape Point and Frisco campgrounds will begin on Friday, April 2, and will end on Monday, Nov. 28, per a recent announcement from the National Park Service. The National Seashore’s Ocracoke Campground and Oregon Inlet Campground will continue to remain open year-round. All campgrounds accommodate […]
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North Carolina’s own “Ocracoke Express” passenger ferry landed in Hatteras village on Wednesday, February 23, after being navigated to the Hatteras ferry terminal from the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s terminal in Cherry Point, N.C., where it has been stationed for the past few months. “The builder is in the final stages of testing and […]
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The Outer Banks Community Foundation held its annual meeting virtually via zoom on February 22. Three new board members were elected by Community Foundation membership, and two departing board members were thanked and recognized. Sheila Davies, Director of the Dare County Department of Health and Human Services and Public Health Director, was named as the […]
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The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission Commercial Resource Fund Committee and the Funding Committee for the N.C. Commercial Fishing Resource Fund will meet jointly by web conference on March 3 at 3 p.m. Members of the public may listen to the meeting by phone or listen and view presentations online. A meeting agenda and WebEx link […]
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After recent negotiations, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative (CHEC), has agreed to accommodate the delayed removal of a roadbed and sandbags along a 1.8 mile stretch of NC Highway 12 that will be bypassed by the new […]
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Dare County released the following update for Tuesday, February 22, which provides details on recent Coronavirus cases, vaccine data, and more COVID-19 information. Dare County COVID-19 Case Update The total number of new laboratory-confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 reported in Dare County for the past week was 81. Currently, based on the reported positive cases, […]
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A recent and internationally-broadcasted presentation on the Pea Island U.S. Life-Saving Service Station is now available to the public online, per an update from NOAA, which hosted the event. Local historian, author, and speaker, Keeper James Charlet, shared the stories of the African American crews who served in the U.S. Life-Saving Service at a virtual […]
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