Three N.C. Department of Transportation projects recently received regional 2023 America’s Transportation Awards along with others in neighboring states. The Southern Association of State Highway Transportation Officials, or SASHTO, chose this year’s regional winners from a pool of 19 projects nominated by nine states in the region. NCDOT submitted one project for each of the three contest […]
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The 12th annual Surfalorus Film Festival, presented by NC Aquariums, brings some of the year’s most innovative and creative surf movies to the Outer Banks for a three-day celebration from September 18 to 20, 2023 during the Eastern Surf Championships at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, NC. A total of seventeen films will screen at […]
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Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on this pet, 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/
SOUTHERN SHORES — James Edward Sawyer, Jr. of Southern Shores, passed away on August 11, 2023. Jimmie, as he was known to family and friends, was born on October 22, 1937, in Norfolk, Virginia, to the late James and Martha Lambert Sawyer. Survivors left to cherish his memory include his wife of 63 years, Louise […]
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Dangerous heat index values will continue on Monday and Tuesday due to a combination of very warm temperatures and high humidity, per an update from the National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City office. Minimum heat indices of 100 degrees are expected through Tuesday, with a heat index of up to 105 forecasted for Monday on Hatteras and […]
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Outer Banks Forever, the local nonprofit partner of the Outer Banks’ national parks, recently announced that there is still time to join their annual “Adopt a Sea Turtle Nest” program for 2023, which occurs each year during the summertime sea turtle nesting season. Roughly 350 sea turtle nests have been recorded within the Cape Hatteras National […]
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The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission will meet in-person Aug 23-25 at the Hilton North Hills, 3415 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh. The meeting will also be livestreamed on YouTube. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 23; at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24; and at 9 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 25. The […]
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A combination of very warm temperatures and high humidity will result in dangerous heat index values on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, per an update from the National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City office. Minimum heat indices of 1oo degrees are expected through Tuesday, with a heat index of up to 108 forecasted for Sunday on Hatteras […]
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A search of “This day in history September 5th” doesn’t reveal much in the way of earth-shattering achievements that day, only that the space probe Voyager 1 launched in 1977, Jack Kerouac’s masterpiece “On The Road” hit bookstores in 1958, and we lost Nobel Prize laureate Mother Teresa in 1992. But hold on a minute […]
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(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Scientists at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center — a division of the National Weather Service — have increased their prediction for the ongoing 2023 Atlantic hurricane season from a near-normal level of activity to an above-normal level of activity with today’s update. Forecasters believe that current ocean and atmospheric conditions, such as record-warm Atlantic […]
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