The Avon Fishing Pier will open for the 2021 season on Wednesday, May 26, per a recent online update from pier operators. In previous years, the Avon Pier had a late start to the season due to damage from a number of nor’easters or hurricanes. In 2020, after suffering damage to the roof of the […]
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A distress call to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) on late Sunday night regarding a plane going down off of Ocracoke Island was determined to be a hoax, after a USCG investigation and corresponding communications with aviation officials. A call was received at 11:28 p.m. over VHS Channel 16 that an Airbus 320 passenger liner […]
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The 27th annual Hatteras Village Offshore Open wrapped up on Saturday, May 15, and Top Dog came out on top as the overall winner with five released blue marlins and a $17.127.50 payout. The Hatteras Village Offshore Open has a multiple-day fishing format and offers seven different levels in which anglers can earn cash prizes. […]
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After multiple delays due to weather, the Black Brant XII rocket successfully launched from the NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility just north of Bermuda on Sunday night, giving folks along the Outer Banks an incredible, momentary show. Sunday was the last night the launch could take place until later this year, since light reflected by the […]
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A protection buffer that was installed in April near Cape Point to protect three American oystercatcher eggs was expanded on May 15 to protect an American oystercatcher chick that had recently hatched, per an update from the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. ORV Ramp 44, which leads to Cape Point, is open to ORVs for 0.20 […]
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The Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry resumed its scheduled operations at 9:20 a.m. on Saturday morning after a brief interruption due to a tugboat, Albemarle, that had gotten stuck near Hatteras Inlet. Ferry service was temporarily paused at 8:50 a.m. on Saturday, and the vessel was freed roughly 40 minutes later. The ferries from Hatteras and Ocracoke islands […]
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The first loggerhead sea turtle nest of the 2021 season was found roughly a mile north of ORV Ramp 70 on Ocracoke Island on Friday morning, per a recent update from the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS.) This timeframe is similar to last year, when the first sea turtle nest, (also a loggerhead nest), was […]
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The 6th annual 2021 Cape Hatteras Sandlot Tournament was played on May 8, 2021, and the event featured beautiful weather, plenty of baseball action, and tributes to two beloved members of the Hatteras Island community. The tournament began by honoring Tom Murphy’s memory, with his wife Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy throwing out the first pitch for […]
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Representatives from the National Park Service (NPS) hosted two meetings over the past week to start the ball rolling on a future renovation and/or relocation project for the Ocracoke Light Station. At Monday’s virtual meeting, National Parks of Eastern North Carolina Superintendent David Hallac provided an overview of the iconic site’s history, as well as […]
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Gas stations throughout Hatteras Island were inundated with a flood of traffic on Tuesday morning as folks filled up their vehicles in response to the cyberattack on the 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline, which carries more than 100 million gallons of fuel from Texas to New Jersey every day. Representatives of the Colonial Pipeline said on Monday […]
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