A runaway buoy that was originally stationed about 17 miles off of Cape Point has made a long odyssey up the Eastern Seaboard, and was last located about 671 miles away – well off the coast of New York City. The buoy, formally known as Station 41025 – Diamond Shoals, is one of several buoys […]
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It all started with a brief conversation at the tail end of a recent Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC) meeting. At the January 7 meeting, commissioner and former Kitty Hawk councilman Ervin Bateman floated the idea of renaming the new Bonner Bridge structure after another prominent county citizen, Marc Basnight. “The name Marc Basnight […]
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The Dare County Board of Commissioners will conduct a Public Hearing to receive comments about a proposed water main extension along Leslie Lane in Avon. The Public Hearing will be held at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 19, as part of the regularly scheduled Dare County Board of Commissioners meeting. Comments can be made at the […]
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At approximately 6:14 p.m. on Tuesday evening, U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet received a call via a landline from a vessel that had ran aground on a shoal near the end of the Walter Slough channel in the Oregon Inlet area. The call came from three people aboard a 28 ft. aluminum boat. Because […]
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