The newly released children’s book is about the history of Jockey’s Ridge and the Baum family who spearheaded the campaign to save the landmark 50 years ago.
Dare County
Firm to start driving test piles for new Alligator River bridge
The North Carolina Department of Transportation says the New York-based contractor’s work will help determine best methods to build the replacement bridge .
Author documents investment fraud involving Buffalo City
Buffalo City, a now-abandoned Dare County logging town notorious for moonshine production during Prohibition, also featured in a huge life insurance company fraud case in the 1910s, author and retired forester Bill Barber has revealed.
‘R’ you ready for April?
A mallard strikes a semaphore-like pose signaling the letter “R” as viewed over the weekend from the dike at the Roanoke Island Marshes Dedicated Nature Preserve. Covering almost 1,900 acres of marsh and wetlands, the preserve is possibly the least well-known of the protected natural areas on the Outer Banks. Although most of the preserve is impenetrable, a 1.3-mile trail along an impoundment is, at times, a birder’s delight. Photo: Kip Tabb
Dare to recognize Collins family with April 5 ceremony
The African American couple who donated land where the Dare County Administration Building and Dare County Justice Center are now will be recognized during a ceremony April 5 in Manteo.