Outer Banks News & Bulletins
Hatteras Realty in the News
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- Hatteras Island can't catch a break (Tuesday, November 17, 2009)
Gov. Bev Perdue signed an emergency declaration to help Dare County recover from the damage left behind by last week's storm.
- North Banks hit by storm, too (Tuesday, November 17, 2009)
With big, gnarly waves and plenty of rain, the nor' easter storm last Thursday, Friday and Saturday wreaked havoc along the oceanfront in Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills, where one small house fell over onto the beach just north of Walker Street in the latter town. Another house collapsed on the beach in South Nags Head.
- NC 12 road closure facilitates emergency evacuation ferry runs (Sunday, November 15, 2009)
The North Carolina Department of Transportation's Ferry Division today announced that it is running the Hatteras-Ocracoke route for emergency purposes and will run a new schedule from Ocracoke to Swan Quarter today through Monday.
- Visitors use ferry to access Hatteras Island (Sunday, November 15, 2009)
Four wheel drive route for essential travel only. All of Hatteras Island continues to be under a declared State of Emergency. NC Highway 12 remains closed to regular traffic north of Rodanthe.
- Economic indicators released by Chamber (Tuesday, November 10, 2009)
Economic indicators released by the Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce are a good-news, bad-news type of report.
- New island group to host fundraiser (Tuesday, November 10, 2009)
Hatteras Connection, a new community-based development project, is aiming to enhance the economic and cultural benefits that commercial fishing and charter-boat fishing bring to the larger interconnected Hatteras Island community, while also helping to ensure a future for new generations of watermen on the island.
- Outer Banks election results (Tuesday, November 03, 2009)
DuckCouncil (5)Chuck Burdick 124Nancy Caviness 108Don Kingston 155Neil Morrison 111Monica Thibodeau 150Dave Wessel 162
- Requests for help skyrocket (Tuesday, November 03, 2009)
Jay Burrus, director of Dare County Department of Social Services, recently told members of the North Banks Rotary Club that the past year had been record-setting for his agency.
- Living Legend nominations being accepted (Tuesday, November 03, 2009)
The Land of Beginnings Festival Committee is preparing to once again name the recipient of the "Living Legend" award during the Land of Beginnings Festival, a ten-day long celebration that will be held in April 2010.
- Fire destroys fishing boat (Tuesday, October 27, 2009)
The Colington Fire Department responded to a boat fire in the water behind a residence on Club View Court in the Colington Harbour sub-division just after 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21.
- Sentinel continues to ask for documents (Wednesday, October 28, 2009)
The Town of Kill Devil Hills continues to withhold what appear to be public documents and has not responded to a suggestion that if there is concern on the part of the public officials, that they join with the Sentinel to ask for an in camera review by a judge to determine if the requested documents should be released to the public.
- Miles of smiles (Wednesday, October 28, 2009)
A sea of dentists and their assistants helped around 1,000 area residents as Dare County hosted one of the largest free dental clinics in the state last Friday and Saturday at the Youth Center and Family Recreation Park in Kill Devil Hills.
Features from obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com
- Contest features 'Village People' (Tuesday, November 17, 2009)
Hundreds of vacationers submitted entries to the Village Realty Photo Contest and Anh Do of Vienna, Va. was named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2009 contest.
- Gray named Dare County Schools Principal of the Year (Tuesday, November 10, 2009)
Cape Hatteras Elementary School Principal Ray Gray is the 2009 Dare County Schools Principal of the Year in a program sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and Wachovia, a Wells Fargo Company.
- Wings Over Water Wildlife Festival is underway! (Tuesday, November 03, 2009)
The Wings Over Water Wildlife Festival, a six-day celebration of the wild side of the Outer Banks, began Tuesday and programs are scheduled through Sunday, Nov. 8.
- Wings Over Water Wildlife Festival lets participants step back into time (Tuesday, October 27, 2009)
The Island Farm or Etheridge Homeplace on Roanoke Island traces its beginnings back to January of 1783 when Jesse Etheridge acquired 150-acre tract from Joseph Mann.
Entertainment from obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com
- Theatre of Dare's 'Cinderella' (Tuesday, November 17, 2009)
Theatre of Dare opened their fall musical, Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella," this past weekend on Friday the 13th, directed by Gene Webster.
- Friends of Jockey's Ridge Lecture Series to focus on invasive species (Tuesday, November 10, 2009)
Join the Friends of Jockey's Ridge as they host Gina Davis, PhD candidate from the Entomology Department of Virginia Tech, to learn about non-native invasive species of concern to the North Carolina coastal region.
- Hear the inside scoop on The Lost Colony (Tuesday, November 03, 2009)
Do you want to know first-hand what is in store for 2010?
- Short Circuit Film Festival (Tuesday, October 27, 2009)
Dare County Arts Council presents the Southern Arts Federation's 3rd Annual Short Circuit Traveling Film Festival at Roanoke Island Festival Park, Manteo on Nov. 13 and at Barefoot Station in Avon on Nov. 20.
