From OBX Today Dare County parents overwhelmingly want school officials to leave decisions on mask wearing to them, according to a school division survey released Thursday. The survey about mask requirements was conducted this week and received over 1,500 parents/guardian responses and 375 staff responses, schools officials said in an email to parents Thursday. Among […]
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The Dare County Board of Education will meet in a special session Thursday, July 29, to consider local implementation of Gov. Roy Cooper’s guidelines for an in-person return to school, including mask mandates for younger students. The 5 p.m. meeting at First Flight High School in Kill Devil Hills is open to the public and […]
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Swim parallel to shore. Yell for help. Wave your arms. Ali Joy, from Ashland, Va., could do none of those things as she and her husband Austin struggled in a rip current off Atlantic Beach trying to save their twin 7-year-old daughters. She and the girls eventually made it out alive, but 46-year-old Austin Joy […]
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Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet crews assisted a disabled sailboat off Ocracoke Island the night of July 1. Crews arrived in the area the boat was last seen at 10:30 p.m. after the anchor that was holding “Bojangles” in place broke free and the boat started drifting away, Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet said […]
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What is that blob in the ocean and does it sting? Why am I so itchy after swimming? Why are there so many jellyfish this year? Thanks to the warm Gulf Stream, onshore winds and the time of year, Outer Banks beachgoers have had more encounters than usual with the stinging inhabitants of the […]
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Thieves recently stole the “Welcome to the Outer Banks” sign heading into the Cape Hatteras National Seashore from Nags Head. The Outer Banks Scenic Byway sign welcoming visitors heading south from Whalebone Junction to Bodie Island vanished sometime last week, said Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy, a local journalist and community activist who served as chair of […]
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After a bout of the winds has scrubbed NASA’s launch of a suborbital sounding rocket from Wallops’ Flight Center on the Eastern Shore on three straight nights, it was clouds that blocked a Tuesday launch. The next attempt begins at 8:06 p.m. Wednesday, May 12. The first three nights, the launch was postponed due to upper-level […]
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A bout of the winds have again scrubbed NASA’s launch of a suborbital sounding rockets from Wallops’ Flight Center on the Eastern Shore. The next attempt begins at 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. Like the last three nights, the launch was postponed due to upper level winds not being within the required limits for a safe […]
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Want to watch a rocket launch? NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore will send a suborbital sounding rocket into space Saturday evening, and it should be visible across much of the eastern United States. The mission to explore energy transport is set to launch at 8:02 p.m. Saturday, May 8, which a […]
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For the first time, NOAA is launching a national rip current forecast model aimed at saving lives of beach-goers around the country — and the model was developed on the beaches of Kill Devil Hills. The agency says the new model can predict the hourly probability of rip currents along U.S. beaches up to six […]
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