Robin Daniels Holt has been digging into Hatteras Island history for well over a decade. A descendant of the Daniels of Wanchese and the Midgetts of Hatteras Island, her passion for research started when she was instrumental in the local efforts to restore the Salvo Community Cemetery. “When I became involved in the cemetery, I [...]
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Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands’ newest weekly summertime market, the Tri Villages Market, is returning in 2025 for its third year in a row, solidifying a new tradition for the Rodanthe, Waves, and Salvo communities. Though the northern Hatteras Island villages had a seasonal market years ago, the Tri Villages Market was a first for the [...]
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As work continues to replace transmission poles on Hatteras Island, drivers may experience brief traffic delays on N.C. Highway 12 in Avon, according to an update from Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative (CHEC). “Our contractor, River City Construction, continues to make good progress on the replacement of nearly 60 transmission poles across the island,” stated the [...]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com While much of North Carolina received some rainfall over the last several days, the statewide ban on open burning remains in place due to continued dangerous weather conditions. The ban also applies to all beach fires on the Outer Banks. The N.C. Forest Service said nearly 1,100 wildfires have been reported across the [...]
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Outer Banks youth sailors make waves with regional regatta victory ...
March 26, 2025 | Island Features
This past weekend, a team of young sailors from Hatteras Island and First Flight High School JV teams sailed their way to a first-place win at the Northpoints #7 Regatta in Columbia, South Carolina. Facing off against 10 established teams from renowned sailing regions like Charleston and Savannah, the Outer Banks team had a lot [...]
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By Glenn Skinner and Thomas Newman, N.C. Fisheries Association After two weeks of fisheries meetings and numerous comments from stakeholders, it’s clear that our current system of fisheries management leaves much to be desired. Since the General Assembly passed legislation in 2010 requiring overfishing to be ended in two years, or less, and sustainable harvest [...]
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Ever since the Cape Hatteras Secondary School’s (CHSS) theater program was revitalized in 2022, every production has grown in scope and ambition. Last year, the theater program and the CHSS Drama Club reached several new milestones. They were asked to perform an encore performance of “The Little Mermaid” at First Flight High School, due to [...]
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Registration for summer programs at the Fessenden Center opens on ...
March 25, 2025 | Community News Brief
Registration for summer programs at the Fessenden Center opens on Wednesday, March 26, at 8:30 a.m. and will remain open until a program is full. Folks can register in person at the Fessenden Center in Buxton or online by using the registration platform at DareNC.gov/Register. Available programs include Fundamentals of Swimming Safety, Mural Maker Art [...]
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In observance of the upcoming Good Friday holiday, all Dare County offices and facilities will be closed on Friday, April 18, 2025. These closures include the Dare County C&D Landfill in Manns Harbor, the Buxton Transfer Station and the Manteo Recycle Yard. These three Dare County Public Works sites will reopen and resume regular operating hours on Saturday, April [...]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com. Video by Food Bank of the Albemarle The Food Bank of the Albemarle, which provides directly and through partner agencies to the food insecure in northeastern North Carolina, (including the Cape Hatteras Food Pantry), is facing a loss of around $1 million in funding after cuts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture were [...]
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The Dare Community Housing Task Force, in collaboration with East Carolina University (ECU), invites members of the Dare County community to attend one of two community open house sessions that will be held on Hatteras Island on Thursday, March 27, 2025 to provide an opportunity for residents and property owners to share their perspectives on workforce housing challenges [...]
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Changes to 18 Marine Fisheries Commission rules became effective on Monday, March 24, according to an announcement from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. Among the changes, five of the rules pertain to data collection and harassment prevention for the conservation of marine and estuarine resources, and one rule aims to make administration of [...]
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Robin Daniels Holt has been digging into Hatteras Island history for well over a decade. A descendant of the Daniels of Wanchese and the Midgetts of Hatteras Island, her passion for research started when she was instrumental in the local efforts to restore the Salvo Community Cemetery. “When I became involved in the cemetery, I [...]
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As work continues to replace transmission poles on Hatteras Island, drivers may experience brief traffic delays on N.C. Highway 12 in Avon, according to an update from Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative (CHEC). “Our contractor, River City Construction, continues to make good progress on the replacement of nearly 60 transmission poles across the island,” stated the [...]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com While much of North Carolina received some rainfall over the last several days, the statewide ban on open burning remains in place due to continued dangerous weather conditions. The ban also applies to all beach fires on the Outer Banks. The N.C. Forest Service said nearly 1,100 wildfires have been reported across the [...]
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In observance of the upcoming Good Friday holiday, all Dare County offices and facilities will be closed on Friday, April 18, 2025. These closures include the Dare County C&D Landfill in Manns Harbor, the Buxton Transfer Station and the Manteo Recycle Yard. These three Dare County Public Works sites will reopen and resume regular operating hours on Saturday, April [...]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com. Video by Food Bank of the Albemarle The Food Bank of the Albemarle, which provides directly and through partner agencies to the food insecure in northeastern North Carolina, (including the Cape Hatteras Food Pantry), is facing a loss of around $1 million in funding after cuts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture were [...]
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The Dare Community Housing Task Force, in collaboration with East Carolina University (ECU), invites members of the Dare County community to attend one of two community open house sessions that will be held on Hatteras Island on Thursday, March 27, 2025 to provide an opportunity for residents and property owners to share their perspectives on workforce housing challenges [...]
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Dare County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robert L. “Bob” Woodard Sr. delivered the annual State of the County presentation at Captain George’s Seafood Restaurant on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, providing an overview of Dare County projects and initiatives that have been completed over the past year and also outlining several projects that are currently underway or slated to [...]
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The Dare County Public Works Department has announced that large item pickup for the unincorporated areas of Dare County only will begin on Monday, April 7, 2025 and run continuously for approximately 12-15 days. The large item pickup will be performed by a private contractor, Southern Disaster Recovery, and there will be a strict one pass only for each unincorporated [...]
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From CoastalReview.org Home-based and amateur weather spotters in North Carolina are encouraged to join a countrywide network that documents the size, intensity, duration and patterns of rain, hail and snow. Called the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow network, or CoCoRaHS, volunteers are asked to take measurements in their own backyards. “We are in need of [...]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com All four lanes of the Washington Baum Bridge over the Roanoke Sound have reopened to traffic, after completion of a $21.3 million rehabilitation project designed to improve rideability and extend its lifespan. The project that began in 2023 take out the bouncy ride of the U.S. 64 bridge between Nags Head and Manteo [...]
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The N.C. Ferry Division’s Pamlico Sound routes between Ocracoke, Cedar Island and Swan Quarter will be adding departures to their schedules on March 25, with each route going from four to six daily departures. The Pamlico Sound schedule, from March 25 through May 19, will be as follows: Ocracoke to Cedar Island:7:30 a.m., 1 p.m. [...]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Jennifer Wells of Kitty Hawk, an assistant public defense attorney in northeastern North Carolina, has been appointed by Gov. Josh Stein to serve as District Court judge through next year. Wells will fill the vacancy left when Judge Edgar Barnes retired last month after 28 years on the bench. She has worked since [...]
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore ranks 35th most visited national p ...
March 13, 2025 | Seashore News
From SamWalkerOBXNews.com A new report from the National Park Service ranks Cape Hatteras National Seashore as the 35th busiest national park in the country in 2024. And all three units of the Outer Banks Group of National Parks ranked in the top 15 for the number of visitors to their category of park. Cape Hatteras [...]
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The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks and the Association of Park Rangers sent a letter on March 3 to Acting National Park Service (NPS) Director Jessica Bowron to initiate action in order to reinstate probationary employees who were recently fired. Bill Wade, Executive Director of the Association of National Park Rangers, confirmed that six [...]
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Six employees let go from NPS Outer Banks Group; Possible changes ...
February 28, 2025 | Seashore News
Following the February dismissal of approximately 1,000 National Park Service (NPS) employees nationwide, coupled with a February 26 memo from the Office of Personnel Management on the National Workplace Optimization Initiative, questions remain as to how the NPS Outer Banks Group could be impacted in the future. Bill Wade, Executive Director of the Association of [...]
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Fort Raleigh National Historic Site reschedules shoreline stabiliz ...
February 5, 2025 | Seashore News
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (Fort Raleigh) has rescheduled its shoreline stabilization public meeting for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. Public comment on three preliminary alternatives for stabilizing approximately one mile of Fort Raleigh’s shoreline is open until Feb. 21, 2025, an extension of two weeks due to a weather-related public meeting postponement. Three preliminary alternatives are available for public comment in the Shoreline Stabilization [...]
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Outer Banks Forever provides update on Bodie Island Light Station fire
January 30, 2025 | Seashore News
Outer Banks Forever, the official nonprofit partner of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, provided an update in their January newsletter on the Jan. 7 fire at the Bodie Island Lighthouse’s Double Keepers’ Quarters. The organization noted that while remediation efforts were ongoing, the annual lighthouse climbing season, (which is scheduled to start in April), would [...]
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The Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) has reopened ORV ramps 2 and 4, most Hatteras Island ramps, and all Ocracoke Island ramps, according to a Thursday afternoon update. “After assessing conditions this morning at ramps 43 and 44, a decision was made to keep these two ramps closed to ORVs for the next 24-48 hours [...]
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Visitor facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleig ...
January 22, 2025 | Seashore News
National Park Service visitor facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore), Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (Fort Raleigh) and Wright Brothers National Memorial will remain closed Thursday, Jan. 23. Fort Raleigh’s shoreline erosion public meeting, originally scheduled for Jan. 23, is postponed—a new date will be announced in the coming days. All off-road vehicle (ORV) [...]
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All ORV routes temporarily closed on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands ...
January 22, 2025 | Seashore News
As a safety precaution, Cape Hatteras National Seashore has temporarily closed all ORV ramps due to difficult beach driving conditions. The combination of snow and sand has resulted in numerous vehicles getting stuck on Hatteras and Ocracoke Island beaches. At least 5-6 inches of snow fell overnight on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands, and another half [...]
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh, and Wright Brothers ...
January 21, 2025 | Seashore News
Ahead of an impending winter storm, National Park Service visitor facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore), Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (Fort Raleigh) and Wright Brothers National Memorial will close at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 and remain closed Wednesday, Jan. 22. Outdoor areas at the Seashore and Fort Raleigh will remain open. As [...]
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Ever since the Cape Hatteras Secondary School’s (CHSS) theater program was revitalized in 2022, every production has grown in scope and ambition. Last year, the theater program and the CHSS Drama Club reached several new milestones. They were asked to perform an encore performance of “The Little Mermaid” at First Flight High School, due to [...]
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Despite being postponed, 5th annual Hatteras Village Waterfowl Fes ...
March 24, 2025 | Island Features
The Hatteras Village Waterfowl Festival returned to Hatteras Island on March 22, and despite being postponed from its original February timeframe due to a winter storm, the fifth annual event was more popular than ever before. “Even though it was postponed, we only had one vendor who canceled,” said event manager Karla Jarvis. “We had [...]
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One of the most grueling races to launch from the Outer Banks – the Blackbeard’s Revenge 100 — begins on Saturday, March 22, and travelers along N.C. Highway 12 on Hatteras Island are advised to be on the lookout for participants as they trek from Corolla to The Wreck Tiki Bar in Hatteras. On Friday, [...]
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CHEC lends a hand to replace missing Chicamacomico Life-Saving Sta ...
March 22, 2025 | Island Features
The Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative (CHEC) came to the rescue of the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station (LSS) by donating and installing a new wreck pole so that the historic site’s weekly life-saving drill reenactments could return for the 2025 summer season. Every year, a team of local volunteers routinely performs the authentic drill reenactment, which replicates [...]
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Cigarette Surfboard Documentary Film Screening will be held at Pio ...
March 21, 2025 | Island Features
The Coastal Studies Institute (CSI), in partnership with the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau, is hosting a film screening of the award-winning The Cigarette Surfboard at the historic Pioneer Theater in Manteo on April 17, 2025. The film screening is part of CSI’s ongoing Science on the Sound, a monthly series that brings together perspectives from across the state [...]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com An aerial survey team from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute made an extremely rare find off the Outer Banks last Thursday, as a killer whale was spotted off Kitty Hawk. The Florida-based institute’s team focuses their work off our coast on surveying activity of endangered North Atlantic right whales, as part of their [...]
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Thinking about a new roof? The Outer Banks Chamber will be hosting a March 18th Lunchtime Live Virtual program on the NC Fortified Roof Program at 12 p.m. This program will feature Mark Goins, Managing Director of NC Fortified. Mark leads a team of certified Fortified Evaluators dedicated to enhancing storm resilience for NC Coastal communities. The [...]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Dare County property owners will see a significant increase in their real estate values when the 2025 revaluation notices are mailed out at the end of this month. According to Dare County Tax Assessor Hosea Wilson, the overall countywide change in the tax base is estimated to be 67%, increasing from $16.4 billion [...]
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ECU is teaming up with Dare Housing Task Force to collect public i ...
February 12, 2025 | Real Estate
East Carolina University (ECU) is partnering with the Dare Community Housing Task Force to better understand community attitudes toward workforce housing, and they are looking for insight and feedback from the Outer Banks community. In this vein, they are hosting of open house sessions, including two on Hatteras Island, and residents can drop by anytime [...]
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From OuterBanksVoice.com The nearly hour-long presentation of the Dare Housing Task Force’s recent 2024 report at the Feb. 3 Dare County Board of Commissioners meeting did more than lay out the daunting obstacles to home ownership in Dare County. It also triggered an extensive discussion on how to get community buy-in for that elusive goal [...]
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Well another year is in the books, and there was a surprising development – of all areas tracked by the Outer Banks Association of Realtors in their statistical reports, Hatteras Island was the only area that didn’t see year-over-year home price appreciation. There is a caveat, because sales volume was much lower in 2024 than [...]
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Registration for summer programs at the Fessenden Center opens on ...
March 25, 2025 | Community News Brief
Registration for summer programs at the Fessenden Center opens on Wednesday, March 26, at 8:30 a.m. and will remain open until a program is full. Folks can register in person at the Fessenden Center in Buxton or online by using the registration platform at DareNC.gov/Register. Available programs include Fundamentals of Swimming Safety, Mural Maker Art [...]
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Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on this pet, and the many other Outer Banks pets currently up for adoption, visit the Outer Banks SPCA website at https://www.obxspca.org/, or their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/obxspca/
Keeper James Charlet book launch “Sensational Wrecks and Heroic ...
March 23, 2025 | Community News Brief
Prepare to embark on an extraordinary journey as we unveil the much-anticipated 2025 release of Sensational Wrecks and Heroic Rescues by the United States Life-Saving Service, Globe Pequot Press. This is the sequel to my 2020 Globe Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks: Dramatic Rescues and Fantastic Wrecks in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. It promises [...]
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Outer Banks Chamber to host State of Education Breakfast on April 15
March 20, 2025 | Community News Brief
The Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce will host a State of Education Breakfast program on Tuesday, April 15, at 8 a.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn in Kitty Hawk. This event will feature a panel of school leaders including Dr. Steve Basnight, Superintendent – Dare County Schools; Dr. Matt Lutz, Superintendent – Currituck County Schools; Dr. [...]
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The Really, Really Free Market is returning to Avon on Saturday, April 5, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. at the Avon Fire Station. The Really, Really Free Market started more than a decade ago and became a valuable resource for islanders in need after several historic storms, including Hurricane Isabel in 2011, and Hurricane [...]
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Dare County offering online Youth Mental Health First Aid courses ...
March 18, 2025 | Community News Brief
Do you work with young people and want to learn valuable skills to help identify and understand mental health and substance abuse challenges among adolescents, as well as offer vital support to those in need? The Breaking Through Task Force of Dare County, partnering with Dare County Department of Health & Human Services, is offering [...]
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It is with deepest sorrow that we announce the passing of our Mother, Jane Elizabeth Pennington, who left this world on March 16, 2025, at the age of 59. She is survived by her two beautiful daughters, April Williamson of Moyock, NC, and Amber Pennington of Denver, CO, who were the light of her life, [...]
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Barbara Ann Rasp, 85, died peacefully at her Kill Devil Hills home on March 24, 2025. Barbara was born in Florida and once worked as a nurse. She has outlived most of her family, and her personal directives for cremation will be honored. Please share an expression of sympathy at www.gallopfuneralservices.com. Gallop Funeral Services was [...]
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May 13, 1954 – March 25, 2025 SOUTHERN SHORES — Kevin George Vipavetz, affectionately known as “Vip,” of Southern Shores, NC, passed away on March 25, 2025, at the age of 70. Born on May 13, 1954, in Charleston, SC, Kevin lived a life marked by dedication to his family, his faith, and his work. [...]
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December 8, 1940 – March 25, 2025 MANTEO — Linda Sue Montabon, née Latham, was born in Monroeville, Ohio, on December 8, 1940, and passed away peacefully at her home in Manteo, NC, with her family by her side on March 25, 2025. Linda was the daughter of Guy and Dorothy Lathan and graduated from [...]
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November 15, 2004 – March 21, 2025 MANTEO — Ashton Cole Reber, 20, of Manteo, North Carolina, passed away unexpectedly on March 21, 2025. Born on November 15, 2004, in Nags Head, North Carolina, Ashton grew up on the Outer Banks where he developed a love for sports, Xbox, fishing, and spending quality time [...]
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May 12, 1932 – March 22, 2025 MANTEO — Nelson Franklin Tinnell, 92, of Manteo, NC, passed away peacefully on March 22, 2025, at Sentara Albemarle Medical Center. He was born on May 12, 1932, in Schuyler, VA, to the late Gracie Dewey Barber and Howard Frank Tinnell. Nelson served in the United States Navy, [...]
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