Yes, we know there are sharks in the ocean. But the sheer size and age of this one seemed worth a mention. Researchers with the OCEARCH shark tracker program posted yesterday about the travels of a matriarch of the ocean, great white shark Nukumi, weighing in at 3.541 pounds and 17.2 feet long. She was […]
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The Dare County Board of Education voted 6-1 Friday night to return all grades to virtual learning as COVID-19 cases and quarantines within the school community reached “a breaking point.” During a two-hour emergency board meeting that got tense at times, Superintendent John Farrelly detailed the challenges the school system faces with 17 coronavirus cases […]
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Family and friends will hold a candlelight vigil Friday night at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse at 5 p.m. for the two women and two young children killed in last week’s massive fire at a duplex in Buxton. The Oct. 23 blaze happened in the Cottages at the Cape neighborhood, once part of military housing dating […]
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For months after Hurricane Dorian last September, Ocracoke restaurant owner Jason Wells and a crew of volunteers cooked and fed the storm-shocked islanders and disaster recovery crews. Now, they’ve received an award from Gov. Roy Cooper for their efforts. Wells, who owns Jason’s Restaurant and led the Ocracoke Strong Kitchen, recently posted about the award […]
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A fall foal has been spotted among the wild horses at Cape Lookout National Seashore. Crystal Wasley recently captured a photo of mare and foal for the National Park Service with a zoom lens. Cape Lookout’s wild horses live on Shackleford Banks, the southernmost barrier island on the national seashore, in a herd of about […]
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NASA scrubbed Thursday night’s launch of the Antares rocket to the International Space Station two minutes and 12 seconds before takeoff due to a ground support equipment issue, but will try again tomorrow. The new launch time from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore has been rescheduled for Friday, oct. 2 at 9:16 […]
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The Dare County Sheriff’s Office says it has received reports of political signs being stolen from public and private properties — and they’d like to remind folks that’s illegal. “Under G.S. 136-32 (e) it is a Class 3 misdemeanor for a person to steal, deface, vandalize or unlawfully remove a political sign that is lawfully […]
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The launch of Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket originally set for tonight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility has been rescheduled for Thursday, Oct. 1, at 9:38 p.m., due to poor weather forecasts for the next few days. The launch may be visible, weather permitting, to residents throughout the mid-Atlantic region and possibly the East Coast of […]
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Outer Banks photographer Wesley Snyder spends a lot of time alone on area beaches capturing images of shipwrecks, sunrises, sunsets, the Milky Way and anything else you might find in the sand and waves. Early Thursday morning as he set out to take some sunrise shots of the grounded trawler Ocean Pursuit near Oregon Inlet, he […]
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If you’ve never made it out to the wreck of the sailboat “Belle” at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, there’s less to see now. Outer Banks photographer Wesley Snyder, a frequent visitor to the remains of the 30-foot sailboat on the beach between Oregon Inlet and Rodanthe, arrived Tuesday morning to find the familiar “Belle” […]
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