Now that demolition of the Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet has begun, mariners need to be aware of changes to navigation under the old bridge and the new Basnight Bridge. To avoid the continued shoaling by Bodie Island spit at the old bridge’s navigation span, a new area has been marked and lighted to the […]
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Primary voting to whittle down a field of 26 candidates for the seat held by the late Walter B. Jones Jr. starts today. Voters in North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District will have plenty of choices. Republican primary voters will be presented with a slate of 17 candidates, while six Democrats will face off in their […]
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June 25, 1928 – April 7, 2019 KILL DEVIL HILLS — Norman Leslie Sheets, 91, of Kill Devil Hills, NC was reunited with his wife Verna Dean Sheets in heaven on Sunday, April 7, 2019. Their love and dedication to each other over the past 69 years was a blessing. His bride had predeceased him […]
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A new exhibit featuring Outer Banks photographer Daniel Pullen has recently launched at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, and the series of photographs provide an insider’s look at life on our local waters that visitors rarely get to see. The exhibit, entitled “Endangered Community: The Independent Waterman Project,” stems from an ongoing and years-long […]
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The British Cemetery ceremony and reception, scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday, May 10, is seeking donations to help with landscaping the grave sites and providing food for the reception. This ceremony, organized by the War Graves Committee on Hatteras, remembers the sinking by German U-boats, of the HMT Bedfordshire, a British trawler, off the coast […]
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Donald John Loeffler of Culpeper, Virginia, born on June 22, 1926, went to be with our Lord Jesus on Saturday, March 30, 2019. He was born to Celia and Phillip Loeffler in Scranton, PA, where he grew up and later met the love of his life. His wife, Joan Eleanor (Edwards) Loeffler, will miss her […]
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North Carolina will create a no gill net corridor along the ocean surf zone later this month to reduce bottlenose dolphin interactions. N. C. Division of Marine Fisheries Director Steve Murphey issued a proclamation today, effective April 22, expanding the current restriction on small mesh gill net use within 100 yards of the ocean surf […]
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Hyde County Health Department and Hyde County Behavioral Health are partnering to support More Powerful NC, a public education campaign that recently launched to raise awareness about the opioid epidemic and empower North Carolinians to take action to address the crisis in their homes, neighborhoods, and communities. The More Powerful NC campaign is supported by […]
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Decoy carvers and aficionados will again descend on Ocracoke for the Second annual Ocracoke Waterfowl Festival from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 20, in the Ocracoke School Gym, 120 School Rd. The event is presented by the non-profit Ocracoke Island Decoy Carvers Guild, which formed in early 2018 to preserve this artform in…
At approximately 10:45 a.m. on Monday morning, the vessel Offshore Fever – a 23 foot Albemarle skiff with four people on board – hailed to the U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet on CH 16. The people onboard the vessel informed the Coast Guard’s watch stander that they were 40 nautical miles offshore and were […]
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