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A dredge shown operating. Photo: Donna Barrett Reprinted from the Island Free Press Details about a comprehensive proposal laying out numerous options for disposal of dredge material occupied much of Wednesday’s meeting of the Dare County Waterways Commission, indicating that finding somewhere to put excess sand may be as challenging as finding ways to keep it from washing away. In a lengthy slide presentation on the proposed Dare County Dredge Material Management, Ken Willson with Wilmington-based consultant Coastal Protection Engineering, or CPE, told commissioners during its Jan. 20 rem...

Duck hunter finds body near Outer Banks, three weeks after a kayaker went missing Mark Price, The Charlotte Observer Dec. 29—A body has been found on the shores of North Carolina's Croatan Sound, three weeks after a kayaker went missing in the same general area. The discovery was made around 3 p.m. Monday, according to John Beardsley of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. The Croatan Sound runs between the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and Roanoke Island, adjacent to the Outer Banks. "A duck hunter discovered a deceased person on the shore line between Manns H...

By: Web Staff and last updated 2020-12-29 08:49:57-05 DARE COUNTY, N.C. - A duck hunter discovered a deceased person on the shore line between Manns Harbor and Stumpy Point near Point Peter Rd. around 3 p.m., Monday. Dare County Sheriffs Department, NC Wildlife Law Enforcement, Dare County Medical Examiners, and Stumpy Point Volunteer Fire Department worked together to recover the body. According to the news release, officials were not able to positively identify the body at the scene, so the body will be moved to the NC Medical Examiner’s Office in Greenville for an au...

We've got hurricane watches for parts of new england. and we're -- i should say tropical storm storm warnings for parts of new england. and then we still have the tropical storm watches and warnings as you come down the south from ocean city to norfolk tropical storm warning and hurricane warnings down to the south around cape hatteras. there is still a threat here that dorian flood threat. we've got 3 million people impacted. this flooding in norfolk is part of storm surge. we were talking to you about this yesterday. we were probably going to see storm surge that norfolk would be involved. f...

That's where we always see the greatest danger. until this pulls out, look at the winds coming in and around dorian. stumpy point, a wind gust of 69. elizabeth city, 43. buford 27, 28 in washington. this wind wrapping all around dorian is going to have to then pull up and out. and we'll still have windy conditions behind it as well. here's the track we see right now. it is just about parallel to new jersey by later this evening. then it makes its way further out. the thing is right now tropical force winds extend out 220 miles from the center of this thing. and as we've already seen this wrap ...