Do you ever wonder how much rainfall you received from a recent thunderstorm? How about snowfall during a winter storm? If so, a new volunteer weather observing program needs your help. The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow network, or CoCoRaHS, is looking for new volunteers across North Carolina. The grassroots effort is part of […]
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On Saturday afternoon, March 16, 48 brave and generous souls dared to bare their scalps, lopping off their locks—and in some cases their beards and mustaches, too—all in the name of children’s cancer research. It was the seventh annual St. Baldrick’s day celebration, and this year, donors and participants raised nearly $7,500 for the St. […]
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SCORE needs volunteers for its business counseling program The Outer Banks chapter of SCORE needs volunteers – both working and retired business owners and executives – to help in its programs that support local businesses. The group will have a free informational luncheon on Thursday, March 28, to recruit volunteers and explain its counseling program. […]
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Between Jan. 28 and Feb. 8, National Park Service NPS Resources Management staff conducted an annual assessment of breeding habitat for piping plovers, Wilson’s plovers, American oystercatchers, and colonial waterbirds in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. During this assessment, preferred habit was located and prenesting areas for piping plovers, Wilson’s plovers and American oystercathers, weather […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division is running an amended two-boat schedule on the Hatteras-Ocracoke route. Shoaling on the Ocracoke side is making it difficult for the smaller vessels to maneuver in and out of the dock. The amended schedule will be in place until dredging on the main channel in Hatteras Inlet, […]
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Today, U.S. Senator Richard Burr, R-N.C., along with Senator Kay Hagan, D-N.C., reintroduced the Preserving Public Access to Cape Hatteras Beaches Act, a bill that would reinstate the Interim Management Strategy governing off-road vehicle use on Cape Hatteras National Seashore and set aside current mandates and requirements that prevent off-road vehicle and citizen access to […]
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All of Hatteras Island saw moderate soundside flooding on Wednesday from the high winds generated by a coastal storm. The low pressure area moved in from the west on Tuesday night with some rain and then headed offshore along the Virginia-North Carolina border on Wednesday afternoon. Gale force west winds turned more to the northwest […]
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On Monday, March 18, the North Carolina Department of Transportation will begin rehabilitating the existing drawbridge on U.S. 64 over the Alligator River in Tyrrell and Dare counties. The work will begin with intermittent lane closures Monday, March 18, through Monday, April 1, as crews perform preparation work. During the lane closure motorists will […]
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The latest winter storm to take aim on the North Carolina coast might not be as strong as it earlier looked to be. “But it’s still going to be a big storm for the Outer Banks,” Casey Dail, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Newport, N.C., said this afternoon. The Weather Service has […]
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The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search Wednesday night for a missing man who reportedly fell overboard from a merchant vessel approximately 50 miles east of Cape Hatteras. The master of the 478-foot merchant vessel Ice River contacted Coast Guard watchstanders via satellite phone at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday stating that a 33-year old male crewmember was missing from the ship. Coast […]
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