The Outer Banks Visitors Bureau (OBVB) has been working collaboratively with MMGY NextFactor, a consulting firm specializing in travel and tourism, to develop a Long-Range Tourism Management Plan to guide future tourism-related growth and development in Dare County. MMGY NextFactor, with oversight from the Task Force established to support this project, has been conducting interviews […]
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37 new cold-stunned sea turtles have been found and transported to the Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehabilitation (STAR) Center over the past several days, per a Tuesday update from the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island. 31 green, 5 Kemp’s ridley, and 1 loggerhead sea turtle were found by N.E.S.T. (Network for Endangered Sea Turtles) […]
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The public is invited to tour the free exhibition and enjoy the creations of local K-12 art students throughout the county. An opening reception will be held Saturday, Jan. 21 from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. The art show will run Monday – Friday from 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. inside Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet […]
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January 28, 1924 – January 15, 2023 MANTEO — Ailene Dickens Hawkins, 98, of Manteo, NC died Sunday, January 15, 2023. Born in Roanoke Rapids on January 28, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Iola Stenson Dickens and Joe Butts Dickens. Ailene was a graduate of Weldon City Schools. She was a past […]
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1938 – 2023 Marilyn Adams Hinson, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend passed away on January 15, 2023 at home. Marilyn loved and was loved by many. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska to the late Earl and Mabel Adams. Her family moved to Cincinnati where she attended elementary school and made several lifelong […]
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The Hatteras Island Rescue Squad (HIRS) will be offering a public CPR class on Tuesday, January 24, at 6:00 p.m. at its station in Buxton. The one-night, three-hour class will cover adult, child, and infant CPR and the use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and the class is part of a long-term effort to […]
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The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) would like to share a preliminary draft for adding and renovating the NCCAT Ocracoke campus. An opportunity for community input will occur on Friday, January 27, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the NCCAT Ocracoke campus building. Architecture drawings will be displayed, and […]
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John Knox McEwen, Jr. born in Jeffersonville, IN, on September 14th, 1943, peacefully passed away on January 9th, 2023, in Kill Devil Hills, NC. He was 79 at the time of his passing. He is survived by his loving wife of 56 years DiAnne McEwen, his two son’s John McEwen III and Trent McEwen, his […]
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The Outer Banks Community Foundation is pleased to announce that programs that offer overnight camping experiences will be afforded need-based support for local youth to attend through the newly established Coastal Campership Fund. Gray Berryman, the fund’s establisher, is a real estate broker with Carolina Designs Realty in Duck; he also is heavily involved with […]
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July 12, 1963 – January 10, 2023 NAGS HEAD — Kelly Kristine Bragg 59, of Nags Head, NC died on the morning of Tuesday, January 10, 2023, peacefully at home. Kelly was born in Connecticut on July 12, 1963. She was the daughter of the late Oneda Leamer Burnfield and Russell C Krenciprock Jr. She […]
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