• 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.