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Meet the Outer Banks SPCA Pet of the Week, Diesel

October 21, 2024 | Community News Brief

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/  

Questions for the Dare County Commissioner Candidates: District 2, ...

October 20, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist

As a service to voters during the 2024 general election, the Island Free Press asked each of the candidates running in the three competitive Dare County Commissioner races to answer questions on various issues affecting Hatteras Islanders. The General Election is November 5, 2024, although early voting is available at the Fessenden Annex in Buxton as [...] Local News |  Full Article

Questions for the Dare County Commissioner Candidates: District 4, ...

October 20, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist

As a service to voters during the 2024 general election, the Island Free Press asked each of the candidates running in the three competitive Dare County Commissioner races to answer questions on various issues affecting Hatteras Islanders. The General Election is November 5, 2024, although early voting is available at the Fessenden Annex as of Thursday, [...] Local News |  Full Article

Questions for the Dare County Commissioner Candidates: District 3, ...

October 20, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist

As a service to voters during the 2024 general election, the Island Free Press asked each of the candidates running in the three competitive Dare County Commissioner races to answer questions on various issues affecting Hatteras Islanders. The General Election is November 5, 2024, although early voting is available at the Fessenden Annex in Buxton as [...] Local News |  Full Article

Cape Hatteras Volleyball Team wrapping up another successful season

October 18, 2024 | Community News Brief

Cape Hatteras Volleyball wrapped up its regular season on Thursday, October 17th, with a heartbreaking loss to a tough Bear Grass team. The Hurricanes celebrated their four Seniors before their match. Elizabeth Fairbanks, Madison Fiscus, Lydia Hooper, and Shaytna Trejo have been huge contributors to the Hurricane Volleyball program and will be missed next year. The Varsity [...] Community News Brief |  Full Article

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Questions for the Dare County Commissioner Candidates: District 4, ...

October 20, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist

As a service to voters during the 2024 general election, the Island Free Press asked each of the candidates running in the three competitive Dare County Commissioner races to answer questions on various issues affecting Hatteras Islanders. The General Election is November 5, 2024, although early voting is available at the Fessenden Annex as of Thursday, [...] Local News |  Full Article

Questions for the Dare County Commissioner Candidates: District 3, ...

October 20, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist

As a service to voters during the 2024 general election, the Island Free Press asked each of the candidates running in the three competitive Dare County Commissioner races to answer questions on various issues affecting Hatteras Islanders. The General Election is November 5, 2024, although early voting is available at the Fessenden Annex in Buxton as [...] Local News |  Full Article

Early voting in Buxton begins on Thursday

October 16, 2024 | Local News

Early voting for the 2024 General Election begins on Thursday, October 17, 2024 and continues through Saturday, November 2, 2024. Unlike on Election Day—when registered voters must vote at their assigned precinct—early voting allows registered voters to cast their ballot at any of the three early voting sites in Dare County, giving you the opportunity [...] Local News |  Full Article

Project underway to replace nearly 60 transmission poles on southe ...

October 14, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist | 1

Vegetation along N.C. Highway 12 is being cleared to make way for new transmission poles in Avon as part of an island-wide project by Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative (CHEC) to switch out existing wooden poles with sturdier, concrete replacements. “CHEC contractor River City Construction, Inc. will work to replace 34 wood transmission poles on the [...] Local News |  Full Article

Stripped of iconic stripes during restoration, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse nearly unrecognizable

October 3, 2024 | Seashore News | By: Joy Crist | 1

Stripped of its iconic black-and-white stripes, and encased in a tower of scaffolding, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is nearly unrecognizable. On the grounds bordering the tower, there are piles of intricate metal pieces that need to be repaired or replaced, including the top level landings and railings. The outer landscape is a patchwork of semi-finished brick and concrete pathways next to thousands of young seedlings that were planted over the summer. An elevator is tacked onto the side of the lighthouse – (which, unfortunately, wasn’t an available asset for the keepers who manned the light from 1870-1939) – and the interior of the structure is a maze of temporary landings and stairs to access the multiple levels. All of this upheaval is a good thing, however, and marks the progress of an unprecedented restoration project that has been in the works for years. These multifaceted [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

Rodanthe, Waves beaches temporarily close after third home collaps ...

September 24, 2024 | Seashore News | By: Joy Crist | 1

The Cape Hatteras National Seashore CHNS) has temporarily closed the beach from G A Kohler Court in Rodanthe to Wimble Shores North Court in Waves after a Rodanthe home collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, September 24. This is the third unoccupied home to collapse in the immediate area since Friday morning, September 20. The temporary closure also [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

Night driving will be allowed at several ORV ramps starting Sunday

September 12, 2024 | Seashore News

Night driving restrictions will be lifted at several designated ORV ramps starting at 9 p.m. Sunday, September 15. To find out which ramps will no longer have night driving restrictions, and which ramps will still have opening and closing times due to sea turtle nests, visit http://go.nps.gov/beachaccess during the afternoon of September 15. After sea turtle nests hatch, additional ramps [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

Grant awarded for new restrooms facilities at Old Lighthouse Beach ...

September 11, 2024 | Seashore News | By: Joy Crist | 1

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Coastal Management recently awarded more than $2.8 million to fourteen local governments to improve public access to coastal beaches and waters, which includes a $114,010 award for new construction of restroom and shower facilities at the Old Lighthouse Beach in Buxton. While there is currently a closure in [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

Hatteras Island Community Strings launches some big changes in 2024

October 22, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist

Hatteras Island Community Strings has only been in existence for two years, but like many Outer Banks programs that resonate with the local community, the nonprofit organization has had a steady series of growth spurts and adjustments since launching in 2022. Jessie Taylor, a music teacher for more than 23 years, first started to envision a community music program for Hatteras Island students in 2021. Cemented in her brain, (and later on paper), she had the details readily worked out when she received a phone call from Rev. Gina Miller at St. John United Methodist Church in Avon that would bring her idea to life. An anonymous donor had given $10,000 towards a music scholarship type program, and with the St. John’s Church providing the classroom space, Hatteras Island Community Strings, (affectionately nicknamed “HICS”), hosted its first classes in September 2022. HICS focuses on v [...] Island Features |  Full Article

Hatteras Island’s museums collaborate to host first-ever Hal ...

October 15, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist

On Wednesday, October 30, brave explorers are invited to experience a myth-filled and scary ride through the community’s favorite Hatteras Island museums. The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, the Chicamacomico Life Saving Station, the Frisco Native American Museum, and The Lost Colony Museum will be sharing tales full of mystery, shivers and chills with their [...] Island Features |  Full Article

Past and present converge at 150th anniversary celebration of Nort ...

October 15, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist

The 1874 establishment of seven U.S. Life-Saving Service Stations in North Carolina had reverberations that are still very much noticeable today. The seven stations – all located within the Outer Banks – created new communities and generations of locals that still call the Outer Banks home. In 1915, the Life-Saving Service became the newly-created United [...] Island Features |  Full Article

CSI lecture addresses homeowner insurance and coastal resilience

September 1, 2024 | Real Estate | By: Kip Tabb

From OuterBanksVoice.com In a wide-ranging discussion on homeowner insurance in coastal North Carolina at the Coastal Studies Institute (CSI) on Aug. 28, Don Hornstein, Director of the UNC Law School’s Center on Climate, Energy, Environment, and Economics, focused on the process of determining insurance rates in the state, insurance company practices and coastal resilience. Hornstein, who is also a board member of the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association (NCIUA), has been part of the UNC faculty since 1989 specializing in insurance law, regulation and regulatory compliance, and environmental law. Back in February 2024, NC Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey announced he was rejecting the insurance industry’s proposed average increase of 42.2% in homeowner’s insurance rates and set an Oct. 7 hearing date on that proposal. Addressing the rate increase with the CSI audie [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

Dare and Hyde counties move to build more teacher housing units

August 1, 2024 | Real Estate | By: Kip Tabb

From OuterBanksVoice.com As Outer Banks communities face a critical shortage of housing for workers, two projects moving forward with an assist from the Outer Banks Community Foundation will help Hyde and Dare County school systems hire and retain teachers. On Ocracoke, the Hyde County Education Foundation (HCEF) has plans to renovate a former daycare center [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

New study finds paths to more effective short-term rental regulations

June 25, 2024 | Real Estate

Rent Responsibly and the College of Charleston have released the 2024 State of the Short-Term Rental (STR) Industry Report, the largest study of its kind exploring the STR industry and the local STR regulatory landscape across the US. Researchers surveyed more than 5,000 STR owners and property managers about their properties, operations, technology, marketing, regulations, [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

Maritime navigation has a new look online

October 22, 2024 | Fishing

By USCG Petty Officer 3rd Class Christine Bills The safety of all mariners is a top priority for the Coast Guard. As technology continues to advance, the service strives to utilize these advancements to improve their aids to navigation data management and dissemination capabilities. One of the many ways the Coast Guard aspires to accomplish this is through the modernization of Local Notice to Mariners (LNM) and Light Lists. The LNM is the primary method of communicating information about aids to navigation, hazards or safety concerns, and any additional information relevant to the maritime community. Light Lists contain detailed information about all lights, buoys, beacons, and additional aids that are located along U.S. coastal regions, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River System. The Coast Guard Navigation Center (NAVCEN) has a goal to enhance maritime safety, improve accessibil [...] Fishing |  Full Article

Meet the Outer Banks SPCA Pet of the Week, Diesel

October 21, 2024 | Community News Brief

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/  

Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Civic Association will host annual meeting on ...

October 21, 2024 | Community News Brief

The Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo (RWS) Civic Association will hold its annual meeting on Thursday, October 24, at 6:30 p.m. at the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Community Building The Annual Meeting of the Association is held to elect Officers and Board of Director Members for the RWS Civic Association, and to conduct any other business that may come before the membership. [...] Community News Brief |  Full Article

Cape Hatteras Volleyball Team wrapping up another successful season

October 18, 2024 | Community News Brief

Cape Hatteras Volleyball wrapped up its regular season on Thursday, October 17th, with a heartbreaking loss to a tough Bear Grass team. The Hurricanes celebrated their four Seniors before their match. Elizabeth Fairbanks, Madison Fiscus, Lydia Hooper, and Shaytna Trejo have been huge contributors to the Hurricane Volleyball program and will be missed next year. The Varsity [...] Community News Brief |  Full Article

Bruce Alexander Oesting

October 21, 2024 | Obituaries

February 22, 1973 – October 13, 2024 MANTEO — Bruce Alexander Oesting, 51, of Manteo, NC, passed away on Sunday, October 13, 2024. Born on February 22, 1973, in Loris, South Carolina, Bruce was fun-loving, thoughtful, and loved his family. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is [...] Obituaries |  Full Article

Gerald “Jerry” Pontes

October 21, 2024 | Obituaries

November 18, 1955 – October 18, 2024 Jerry “Poomba” Pontes crossed the final sandbar in the early morning after a very long hard fight. Jerry was a man of many talents, but his greatest gift was his fun and loving nature. He loved his family and friends with all his heart. He was predeceased by [...] Obituaries |  Full Article

Nicole Lynn Shifflett

October 18, 2024 | Obituaries

WANCHESE — Nicole Lynn Shifflett, 40, of Wanchese, NC, began dancing with the angels on October 14, 2024. Born on August 14, 1984, Nicole’s tenacious spirit brought love, light, and laughter to all. Her sweet smile and sassy nature will be remembered by everyone who was blessed to know her. Nicole is a beloved daughter [...] Obituaries |  Full Article

Mark Thomas Justice

October 18, 2024 | Obituaries

November 26, 1954 – October 15, 2024 OCRACOKE — Mark Thomas Justice, 69, of Ocracoke, NC, passed away peacefully on October 15, 2024, at ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville, NC. Born on November 26, 1954, in Baltimore, MD, Mark lived a life filled with passion, dedication, and love for his community. Mark was a [...] Obituaries |  Full Article

Jim Craft

October 18, 2024 | Obituaries

May 22, 1942 – October 13, 2024 FORT MILLS, SC — Jim Craft (82) of Fort Mill, South Carolina, passed away on October 13, 2024. After a long-fought battle with cancer, he turned his pain over to the Lord and is now resting peacefully. His wife, daughter, and grandchildren were able to be with him [...] Obituaries |  Full Article

Donald Edmund Skakle, Jr.

October 16, 2024 | Obituaries

Donald Edmund Skakle, Jr. (Sea Bear) of Hatteras, North Carolina, son of Sybil Austin and Donald Edmund Skakle, Sr., was born 76 years ago on July 26, 1948, at Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina. He went home to be with Our Lord on October 7, 2024, after several weeks of hospital care. His wife, [...] Obituaries |  Full Article