The Outer Beaches Realty main office on Highway 12 in Avon was extensively damaged today by an early morning, three-alarm fire. Kenny Brite, assistant chief of the Avon Volunteer Fire Department, said that the first call on the blaze came in at 12:12 a.m. According to Dare County fire marshal, Steve Kovacs, a passerby called […]
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Two leaders of Hatteras Island’s Community Emergency Response Team were interviewed about the team’s work on Sunday, Nov. 16, on the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point.” The guests for the hour were Kenny Brite of Avon and Larry Ogden of Waves. “To the Point,” which is hosted by Island Free Press editor Irene […]
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Two leaders of Hatteras Island’s Community Emergency Response Team were interviewed about the team’s work on Sunday, Nov. 16, on the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point.” The guests for the hour were Kenny Brite of Avon and Larry Ogden of Waves. “To the Point,” which is hosted by Island Free Press editor Irene […]
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Three years ago this month, in an article in the Island Free Press, Eric Kaplan announced his plans for the Hatteras Island Ocean Center. It was a grand plan that included not only an ocean pier and pier house but also such things as an event venue, a restaurant, shops, a playground, parking, a beach […]
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A small but vocal group of islanders gathered at the Shipwreck Grill in Buxton on Monday to continue their campaign to get the beach on the northern edge of the village nourished with sand now — not in the summer of 2016. About 20 people attended the meeting, organized by Carol Dawson, a Buxton resident […]
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Author-historian Kevin Duffus of Raleigh, who has had a life-long fascination with North Carolina’s maritime history, was the guest on Sunday, Nov. 2, on the new Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point.” “To the Point,” which is hosted by Island Free Press editor Irene Nolan, airs on the island’s community radio station, FM 101.5 […]
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This is a story — a very funny story — with a happy ending about the day that a delegation of Chinese investors and government officials came to visit Hatteras village on a whirlwind tour of Dare County. The story was told to me by Allen Burrus of Hatteras village, vice-chairman of the county Board […]
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As opposed to Dare County and many other locations in the state, Democratic candidates in the 2014 mid-term general election did quite well in Hyde County. The only Republican who won the voters’ approval at the top of the ballot was incumbent U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, who was running for his 11th term from the […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation plans to raise the roadbed on Highway 12 both north and south of the temporary bridge on Pea Island to help with continual flooding from ocean overwash in the area and continues to work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to build a berm on the oceanside of […]
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