(Dewey Parr and his wife, Mary, owned the Old Gray House Gifts and Shells in Buxton for 25 years. It was their “retirement” project when they opened it up in 1991, and on Sept. 30, they closed the store and moved on to a new “retirement.” You can still check them out on the Facebook […]
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If you haven’t been on Dare County’s website in a while — or if you’ve never been there at all — you will probably be pleasantly surprised at what you will find. This year, the site has gotten a makeover — a new design, along with upgrades and improvements — but not so much that […]
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Two newly elected members of the Dare County Board of Commissioners and two re-elected members were sworn in by board clerk Gary Gross at yesterday’s regular meeting. In addition, the board chose its chairman and vice-chairman for the coming year and concluded the meeting with yet another discussion of the Hurricane Matthew debris collection, which […]
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Allen Burrus, who just retired as Hatteras Island’s representative to the Dare County Board of Commissioners, was the guest on the Nov. 20 edition of “To the Point,” a Radio Hatteras interview show, hosted by Irene Nolan, editor of The Island Free Press. After 10 years on the county commission, Burrus decided not to run […]
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Thanksgiving is here much too soon for me. There has been a nip in the air this week, but how could it be Thanksgiving already when it seems that only yesterday it was hot and humid and the islands were filled with tourists? The past three months have just flown by in my mind — […]
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Danny Couch of Buxton, Hatteras Island’s commissioner-elect, was the guest on the Nov. 20 edition of “To the Point,” a Radio Hatteras interview show, hosted by Irene Nolan, editor of The Island Free Press. In a wide-ranging conversation, Couch, who will be sworn in as a member of the Dare Commissioners at the next regular […]
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Long-time Dare County Commissioner Warren Judge died on Saturday, Nov. 5, just days after he was rushed to Sentara Heart Hospital in Norfolk and just days before an election in which he might have been elected to the N.C. House of Representatives District 6 seat. He wasn’t, although his wife, Tess, who shared his passion […]
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Republican candidates swept local legislative and Dare County races in last night’s general election. Incumbent Republican Bill Cook of Chocowinity soundly beat Democratic challenger Brownie Futrell of Washington for the state Senate District 1 seat. With all of the precincts in the district reporting, including all of those in Dare and Hyde counties, Cook had […]
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With 68 percent of the precincts reporting at about 9:30 p.m., Republican incumbent Bill Cook had a commanding lead over his Democratic challenger, Brownie Futrell, in the race for the state Senate’s District 1. Cook had 62 percent of the vote to Futrell’s 38. The race for state House of Representatives District 6, pitting two […]
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Dare County Commissioner Warren Judge of Kitty Hawk, 65, died overnight at Sentara Heart Hospital in Norfolk, Va. Judge was transported to the hospital Wednesday night. A spokesperson for the Dare County Democratic Party confirmed that Judge had suffered a heart attack but no other information on his condition had been released. This morning, his […]
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