By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Residents of and visitors to Hatteras and Ocracoke islands were watching and waiting today for the rain to begin and the wind to start howling as Tropical Depression 8 skirted the islands, perhaps as a minimal tropical storm. Neither one had happened by dinner time. And, the National Weather […]
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The National Hurricane Center has upgraded the tropical storm watch from Cape Lookout to Oregon Inlet along the eastern North Carolina coast to a tropical storm warning. A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area, in this case within 24 hours. Interests elsewhere along the Outer Banks […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm watch for the North Carolina coast from Cape Lookout to north to Oregon Inlet, including Hatteras and Ocracoke islands. According to the Hurricane Center, at 8 a.m., Tropical Depression 8 was comprised of a swirl of low-level clouds accompanied by […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The National Hurricane Center said in an 11 a.m. advisory this morning that an area of disturbed weather west of Bermuda has become Tropical Depression 8 with winds of 35 mph with higher gusts and could become Tropical Storm Hermine in the next day or so. According to the […]
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The Cape Hatteras National Seashore maintenance staff has begun a project to restore Ramps 44 and 49 to their original elevations and reduce the effects of heavy rainfall that flooded the ramps for weeks last fall and again around Memorial Day. “Over time with use and maintenance the ramps have developed a depression or trough […]
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The three members of the Dare County Board of Elections should be ashamed of themselves. At a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, they had another chance — apparently a last chance — to make things right with early voting opportunities — and they refused. All three members of the board — two Republicans and a Democrat […]
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By IRENE NOLAN Dare County put out a call for help this afternoon to residents and local business owners. The county is working with two contractors — North Carolina State University and RTI International — to develop an economic development and diversification plan. “Your involvement and input are critical to our success,” the county said […]
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A new report from Visit North Carolina, a unit of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, shows that visitors spent a record $21.9 billion statewide last year, an increase of nearly 3 percent. Tourism-related spending in Dare County, meanwhile, topped $1 billion for the second straight year, an increase of 3.28 percent. Dare had […]
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Mary Ellon Ballance of Hatteras village, who was sworn in on July 20 as the School Board Representative for the Hatteras Island district, was the guest on the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” on Sunday, Aug. 21. The program is hosted by Irene Nolan, editor of The Island Free Press, and the topic […]
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The National Park Service today published in the Federal Register its proposed changes to The Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s final rule for off-road vehicle management that became effective in 2012. Three of proposed changes that were published today include new opening times for seashore beaches, new dates for use of seasonal ORV routes, changes to […]
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