With the passing of the Summer Solstice on June 20, the Earth starts to tilt away from the Sun and the night starts to lengthen. On the Summer Solstice, the Sun rose at 5:46 a.m. and set at 8:20 p.m. That means we received about 14 hours and 34 minutes of daylight. On July 1, […]
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From OBXToday.com The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras will be closed on the Fourth of July. Otherwise, the museum will operate on its regular schedule that week: open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum is closed on Saturdays and Sundays. The Museum has also provided the […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Just ahead of the busy Fourth of July holiday, officials are reminding Outer Banks beachgoers to give Mother Ocean the respect she deserves, whether they are local or from out of town. Representatives from the various lifeguard services and public safety agencies covering Dare County gathered at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head on […]
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On Tuesday, June 20, the U.S. Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet responded to a small craft taking on water in the Pamlico Sound. Once notified, Station Hatteras Inlet crewmembers got underway to the vessel’s last known position. When the crew arrived on scene, the CG27143 utilized the dewatering pump for a majority of the vessel and […]
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore visitors should leave fireworks at home and attend permitted fireworks shows on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) reminds visitors and adjacent homeowners that it is illegal to detonate fireworks, or have fireworks in your possession, on all land managed by the National Park Service, including all beaches […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com A traffic safety event on Tuesday targeting aggressive driving and driving while impaired in Dare County netted ten arrests and 75 total citations on a variety of charges. Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies participated in the Dare To 55 event that ran over an eight hour period. Officers conducted saturation patrols, […]
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The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries and N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission are working cooperatively on an aggressive stocking plan to supplement recruitment of the Albemarle Sound/Roanoke River Striped Bass population that began in 2023. With financial support provided by the Marine Fisheries Commission Conservation Fund and the N.C. Marine & […]
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July 2, 1958 – June 19, 2024 KILL DEVIL HILLS — Our beloved family member and rock-solid friend Bruce David Umstead very tragically and unexpectedly passed on to the ethereal other side of his fishing hole on June 19, 2024. Bruce was born into a military family in Bangor, Maine, in 1958, and was the […]
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July 9, 1961 – June 25, 2024 FRISCO — Mark Lawrence Rawl unexpectedly passed away on June 25, 2024, at the age of 62, in Frisco, North Carolina. Mark was born to Larry and Frances Rawl on July 9, 1961. He happily retired from the United States Army and National Guard after serving 28 years […]
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The Avon Property Owners Association (APOA) will be hosting a fundraising fish fry on Saturday, June 29, to raise funds for the annual Independence Day fireworks display over the Avon Pier. The community fish fry will be held at the Avon Volunteer Fire Department station on 40159 Harbor Road, starting at 5:00 p.m. The plates […]
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