Minor ocean overwash was reported with Monday morning’s approximate 6:15 a.m. high tide on northern Ocracoke Island, northern Hatteras Village, northern Buxton, near the Pea Island Visitor Center, and the Mirlo Beach area of Rodanthe. N.C. Highway 12 is open and passable, but standing saltwater and sand remain on the highway, and drivers are advised [...]
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After 34 years of service to the state of North Carolina, Cameron Ingram, executive director of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, has announced his retirement effective December 31, 2024. Ingram has served as NCWRC executive director since August 2020. “The collective work of 700 NCWRC employees, 21 Commissioners, and conservation partner supporters, have forged [...] Fishing | Full ArticlePotential Tropical Cyclone Eight forms; Overwash reported with Sun ...
September 15, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist
It is becoming more likely that an area of low pressure off the South Carolina coast will become either a tropical or subtropical storm within the next day or two, per an update from the National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City Office. However, whether or not this happens, impacts such as flooding rain, coastal flooding, a few [...] Local News | Full ArticleAfter 20 years, Day at the Docks still honors the watermen who bro ...
September 15, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
Photos by Don Bowers The 20th annual Day at the Docks (DATD) celebration on Saturday, September 14, opened and closed with tributes to the working watermen and women who helped Hatteras Village come back to life after Hurricane Isabel tore through the island in 2003, cutting a new inlet that separated Hatteras from the rest of [...] Island Features | Full ArticleOcean overwash, rough surf expected from low developing off the coast
September 15, 2024 | Local News | By: Sam Walker
From SamWalkerOBXNews.com An area of disturbed weather off the southeast United States is expected to bring a variety of impacts to the Outer Banks and northeastern North Carolina over the next several days, and could become the eighth tropical cyclone of 2024. “Keep an eye on this still developing storm but those in vulnerable areas please [...] Local News | Full ArticleIsland History: A spotlight on stories from the Outer Banks’ Lif ...
September 14, 2024 | Island Features | By: Jen Carlson
The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station (CLSS) is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, as one of the seven original Life-Saving Stations to be built in North Carolina in 1874. As such, the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station and Historic Site in Rodanthe will be sharing stories about the seven 1874 Outer Banks stations in the weeks ahead, leading up to the official October [...] Island Features | Full ArticleOcracoke Island-Wide Yard Sale postponed to Sunday, Sept. 15
September 14, 2024 | Community News Brief
Due to the heavy rains on Friday, Sept. 13, and expected showers on Saturday, Sept. 14, the Ocracoke Island-Wide Yard Sale is postponed to Sunday, Sept. 15. Hours are the same: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., but some participants may have canceled.Twiford Funeral Homes celebrates its 37th consecutive NFDA Pursuit ...
September 13, 2024 | Community News Brief
Twiford Funeral Homes proudly announces its unparalleled achievement of being honored with the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Pursuit of Excellence Award for the 37th consecutive year. This remarkable streak not only underscores Twiford Funeral Homes’ enduring commitment to excellence in funeral service but also cements its position as one of the top three funeral [...] Community News Brief | Full ArticleN.C. Department of Transportation crews will reinstall off-season speed limit signs along sections of N.C. 12 in several parts of Currituck and Dare counties on Sept. 16, weather permitting. On Monday, speed limits in areas through the tri-villages of Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo, as well as in Corolla and Frisco, will return to 45 mph [...] Local News | Full ArticleN.C. 12 to close briefly in Rodanthe on Tuesday to remove unused s ...
September 13, 2024 | Local News
N.C. Department of Transportation crews will be briefly closing a section of N.C. 12 in Rodanthe early Tuesday morning to remove an unused overhead sign structure. The sign, at the intersection of N.C. Highway 12 and Trade Winds Drive, will be removed Sept. 17 beginning at 5:30 a.m., weather permitting. While the work is underway, [...] Local News | Full ArticleProgram announced for Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station’s 150th ...
September 13, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
2024 marks the 150th anniversary of North Carolina’s first seven Life-Saving Stations, and the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station in Rodanthe is hosting a two-day celebration on October 12-13 to mark the milestone. The United States Life-Saving Service was the predecessor to the modern U.S. Coast Guard, and in 1848, the U.S. Government provided funds to New [...] Island Features | Full ArticlePotential low pressure system could bring heavy rains, gusty winds ...
September 13, 2024 | Local News | By: Sam Walker
From SamalkerOBXNews.com A low pressure system is expected to develop off the southeast U.S. coast this weekend, and could bring an extended period of rain to eastern North Carolina next week. The area off the South Carolina and Georgia coasts is being monitored by the National Hurricane Center for possible development over the next seven [...] Local News | Full Article-
Dare County Schools take steps to offer free meals to all students
September 17, 2024 | Local News | By: Sam Walker
From SamalkerOBXNews.com The Dare County Board of Education on Monday announced initial steps to give all students in all schools breakfast and lunch at no cost for the remainder of the school year. The decision comes in the wake of community outcry over students at middle and high schools being refused service, or even having [...] Local News | Full ArticleN.C. Highway 12 remains closed Tuesday morning on northern Ocracok ...
September 17, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist
While Hatteras Island had minimal ocean overwash with Tuesday morning’s 7:10 a.m. high tide, northern Ocracoke Island remains closed, with Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry service suspended, due to ocean overwash and water on the roadway. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) closed N.C. Highway 12 between the ferry terminal and the pony pens on northern Ocracoke [...] Local News | Full Article
Dare County Schools take steps to offer free meals to all students
September 17, 2024 | Local News | By: Sam Walker
From SamalkerOBXNews.com The Dare County Board of Education on Monday announced initial steps to give all students in all schools breakfast and lunch at no cost for the remainder of the school year. The decision comes in the wake of community outcry over students at middle and high schools being refused service, or even having [...] Local News | Full ArticleN.C. Highway 12 remains closed Tuesday morning on northern Ocracok ...
September 17, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist
While Hatteras Island had minimal ocean overwash with Tuesday morning’s 7:10 a.m. high tide, northern Ocracoke Island remains closed, with Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry service suspended, due to ocean overwash and water on the roadway. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) closed N.C. Highway 12 between the ferry terminal and the pony pens on northern Ocracoke [...] Local News | Full Article
8:45 P.M. UPDATE: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has closed N.C. Highway 12 on northern Ocracoke Island between the ferry terminal and the pony pens until further notice due to darkness, ocean overwash, and water on the roadway. Ferry service between Hatteras and Ocracoke is also suspended. Another round of ocean overwash was [...] Local News | Full ArticleUPDATE: N.C. 12 to close briefly in Rodanthe for sign removal Wedn ...
September 16, 2024 | Local News | By: Sam Walker
From SamWalkerOBXNews.com .C. Department of Transportation crews will be briefly closing a section of N.C. Highway 12 in Rodanthe early Wednesday morning to remove an unused overhead sign structure. The sign, at the intersection of N.C. 12 and Trade Winds Drive, will be removed on Sept. 18 beginning at 5:30 a.m., weather permitting. While the work is [...] Local News | Full ArticleMinor ocean overwash reported with Monday morning’s high tid ...
September 16, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist
Minor ocean overwash was reported with Monday morning’s approximate 6:15 a.m. high tide on northern Ocracoke Island, northern Hatteras Village, northern Buxton, near the Pea Island Visitor Center, and the Mirlo Beach area of Rodanthe. N.C. Highway 12 is open and passable, but standing saltwater and sand remain on the highway, and drivers are advised [...] Local News | Full ArticlePotential Tropical Cyclone Eight forms; Overwash reported with Sun ...
September 15, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist
It is becoming more likely that an area of low pressure off the South Carolina coast will become either a tropical or subtropical storm within the next day or two, per an update from the National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City Office. However, whether or not this happens, impacts such as flooding rain, coastal flooding, a few [...] Local News | Full ArticleOcean overwash, rough surf expected from low developing off the coast
September 15, 2024 | Local News | By: Sam Walker
From SamWalkerOBXNews.com An area of disturbed weather off the southeast United States is expected to bring a variety of impacts to the Outer Banks and northeastern North Carolina over the next several days, and could become the eighth tropical cyclone of 2024. “Keep an eye on this still developing storm but those in vulnerable areas please [...] Local News | Full ArticleN.C. Department of Transportation crews will reinstall off-season speed limit signs along sections of N.C. 12 in several parts of Currituck and Dare counties on Sept. 16, weather permitting. On Monday, speed limits in areas through the tri-villages of Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo, as well as in Corolla and Frisco, will return to 45 mph [...] Local News | Full ArticleN.C. 12 to close briefly in Rodanthe on Tuesday to remove unused s ...
September 13, 2024 | Local News
N.C. Department of Transportation crews will be briefly closing a section of N.C. 12 in Rodanthe early Tuesday morning to remove an unused overhead sign structure. The sign, at the intersection of N.C. Highway 12 and Trade Winds Drive, will be removed Sept. 17 beginning at 5:30 a.m., weather permitting. While the work is underway, [...] Local News | Full ArticlePotential low pressure system could bring heavy rains, gusty winds ...
September 13, 2024 | Local News | By: Sam Walker
From SamalkerOBXNews.com A low pressure system is expected to develop off the southeast U.S. coast this weekend, and could bring an extended period of rain to eastern North Carolina next week. The area off the South Carolina and Georgia coasts is being monitored by the National Hurricane Center for possible development over the next seven [...] Local News | Full ArticleFirst efforts toward petroleum remediation begin at Buxton Beach
September 12, 2024 | Local News | By: Joy Crist
Remediation work for resurfaced petroleum contamination at Buxton Beach is underway, signaling one of the most intensive efforts yet to address the environmental and public safety problems that have plagued the shoreline since September 2023. The clean-up efforts, spearheaded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), began to accelerate after an early September 2024 [...] Local News | Full ArticleCounty boards of elections in North Carolina are now working to design and print new ballots for the 2024 general election without the We The People Party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates on them, following a state court decision. The N.C. Supreme Court, in a 4–3 ruling late Monday, required election officials to remove the [...] Local News | Full ArticleOperator of disabled PWC rescued from Pamlico Sound
September 10, 2024 | Local News | By: Sam Walker | 1
From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The operator of a personal watercraft that suffered an engine failure Monday evening in the Pamlico Sound was safely returned to shore after a multi-agency rescue effort. According to a social media update from Chicamacomico Banks Fire and Rescue, crews were dispatched at 7:50 p.m. on the report of a PWC operator that [...] Local News | Full ArticleThe Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative (CHEC) will require a four-hour planned power outage for Avon on Tuesday, September 10, in order to make important upgrades in the Avon substation. Crews will be working on several important tasks, including replacing current transformers and installing new switches. The power outage scheduled for Avon on Tuesday will occur from 10 [...] Local News | Full ArticleTravelers urged to avoid the north end of Ocracoke Island around Monday evening’s high tide
September 16, 2024 | Seashore News
The Cape Hatteras National Seashore issued the following press release on Monday afternoon, Sept. 16 The Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) urges travelers to avoid the north end of Ocracoke Island around the hours of this evening’s high tide, due to a combination of a higher-than-average high tide and high surf advisory. Travelers should also use caution at the north end of Ocracoke Island around high tides through the rest of this week. On Hatteras Island, visitors should use caution on the beach at the north end of Rodanthe, due to the presence of hazards, such as building materials and parts of septic systems, from threatened oceanfront structures. Additionally, over the next several days, the Seashore expects varying levels of ocean overwash in Hatteras, Buxton, and Rodanthe, and possibly near the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge visitor center. [...] 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 ArticleGrant 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 ArticleThe Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) expanded the size of a previously closed beach area by approximately 0.25 miles on Thursday morning, Sept. 5, in Buxton, North Carolina. The precautionary expansion, implemented in consultation with the Dare County Department of Health and Human Services, closes the beach from the southern end of the location of [...] Seashore News | Full ArticleRecent erosion exposes remnant petroleum contamination at Buxton F ...
September 5, 2024 | Seashore News
UPDATE: The Buxton Beach closure has been expanded by 0.25 miles as of Thursday morning, September 5 Over the last 24-36 hours, several feet of sand have been washed away from an area of beach in front of the Buxton Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore). Soil and groundwater that [...] Seashore News | Full ArticlePaint removal underway at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
August 28, 2024 | Seashore News | By: Joy Crist
The black-and-white diagonal stripes that make the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse an iconic landmark are disappearing – at least for now. Roughly eight months into an extensive restoration project, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse already looks like a different structure, with a tower of scaffolding and a new temporary lens lighting up the night. However, this next [...] Seashore News | Full ArticleThere’s still time adopt a sea turtle nest for the 2024 season; ...
August 26, 2024 | Seashore News
Outer Banks Forever, the local nonprofit partner of the Outer Banks’ national parks, recently announced that there is still time to join their annual “Adopt a Sea Turtle Nest” program for 2024, which occurs each year during the summertime sea turtle nesting season. The Adopt A Sea Turtle Nest program launched in 2020 to support projects [...] Seashore News | Full ArticleCape Hatteras National Seashore urges caution on roads and beaches ...
August 7, 2024 | Seashore News
Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) is urging caution on roads and beaches over the next two to three days, due to the potential for multiple days of heavy rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Debby. Additionally, the National Weather Service has issued a High Surf Advisory for eastern North Carolina through 2 p.m. Friday, August 9. [...] Seashore News | Full ArticleEnjoy free admission and an outdoor movie on National Aviation Day ...
August 5, 2024 | Seashore News
Wright Brothers National Memorial, in partnership with the First Flight Society, will celebrate National Aviation Day on August 19, 2024, at the park and the Dare County Regional Airport. In addition to free entrance for the day and ranger-led educational programs, the park will stay open late for a special viewing of Disney’s “Up†on the lawn [...] Seashore News | Full Article2024 is turning into another active year for sea turtles on the Ca ...
August 2, 2024 | Seashore News | By: Joy Crist
There have been several record-breaking years in recent history when it comes to sea turtle nests on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS), and with 268 nests recorded so far, 2024 is on track to be another highly active year for visiting sea turtles as well. Sea turtle nests laid by loggerheads, Kemp’s Ridley turtles, [...] Seashore News | Full ArticleTop
After 20 years, Day at the Docks still honors the watermen who brought Hatteras back to life after Isabel… WITH SLIDESHOW
September 15, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
Photos by Don Bowers The 20th annual Day at the Docks (DATD) celebration on Saturday, September 14, opened and closed with tributes to the working watermen and women who helped Hatteras Village come back to life after Hurricane Isabel tore through the island in 2003, cutting a new inlet that separated Hatteras from the rest of the world. Lynne Foster welcomed the crowd at the launch of the day’s festivities, telling the story of how the community got back on its feet with no power, no water, and no road to leave the village. “When Hurricane Isabel came roaring in, in 2003, Hatteras Village had never before or since experienced such devastation,†said Foster. “After checking on family, friends, and neighbors, folks got to work [and] the watermen led the way… In a very short time, amazing things started to happen.†Charter fishermen, commercial fishermen, the U.S. Coast Guar [...] Island Features | Full Article
Surfalorus Film Festival celebrates 13 years with 13 original surf ...
September 12, 2024 | Island Features
The annual Surfalorus Film Festival, presented by NC Aquariums, returns to Nags Head, NC for its 13th year, happening September 16 to 18, 2024. Surfalorus brings some of the most inspiring and thoughtful surf movies to the Outer Banks for a three-day celebration coinciding with the Eastern Surf Championships at Jennette’s Pier. A total of 13 [...] Island Features | Full ArticleBuxton Volunteer Fire Department honors Bryan Perry for 50 years o ...
September 11, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
In the days before a surprise celebration for 50-year Buxton Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) member Bryan Perry, Deputy Chief Jeffrey DelMonte asked the 21-member crew for one word that described the honoree. “I won’t read them all, but I’ll hit on some of the highlights,†said DelMonte at the Tuesday night event. “Sharp. Expert. Hard-nosed. [...] Island Features | Full Article20th Annual Day at the Docks returns September 13-14
September 11, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2024, the annual Day at the Docks Festival will be held on Friday and Saturday, September 13-14. Initially launched as a one-day event in 2004, Day at the Docks (DATD) was created as a community-wide effort to recover after 2003’s Hurricane Isabel, which cut a new inlet south of the [...] Island Features | Full ArticleAnnual HICF Chowder Cook-off is landing at Day at the Docks on Sep ...
September 9, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
One of the most popular events at the annual Day at the Docks Festival – the Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation’s (HICF) Chowder Cook-off – is returning once again for this year’s celebration on Saturday, September 14, from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. During this highly competitive contest, where bragging rights will last all year, various [...] Island Features | Full ArticleIsland History: A spotlight on stories from the Outer Banks’ Lif ...
September 9, 2024 | Island Features | By: Jen Carlson
The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station (CLSS) is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, as one of the seven original Life-Saving Stations to be built in North Carolina in 1874. As such, the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station and Historic Site in Rodanthe will be sharing stories about the seven 1874 Outer Banks stations in the weeks ahead, leading [...] Island Features | Full ArticleBy Mary Ellen Riddle, from the Outer Banks Voice Rising from the destruction created by Hurricane Isabel in September 2003, Day at the Docks in Hatteras Village is celebrating its 20th anniversary on Sept. 13-14. The event, which began in September 2004, was created to honor the watermen who helped the community survive during and after [...] 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
Island Real Estate: Hatteras Island home sales and trends for August
August 24, 2024 | Real Estate | By: Stephen Smith
There are a lot of changes happening in the real estate world right now, and not just as it pertains to home sales or mortgage rates. If you’ve been reading online or watching TV lately, you probably have seen that the NAR (National Association of Realtors®) reached a settlement in a lawsuit and it has [...] Real Estate | Full ArticleDare 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 ArticleFlood history questions added to real estate disclosure form
July 20, 2024 | Real Estate | By: Catherine Kozak | 1
From CoastalReview.org Sometimes it’s a puzzle why people don’t ask more questions, such as, “Has the river that’s down your road ever flooded your house, the house I’m thinking of buying?†The maxim “buyer beware†is wise advice no matter where a house is situated, but it’s good to have rules in place to cover [...] Real Estate | Full ArticleOuter Banks home prices near quarterly record, total inventory bou ...
July 19, 2024 | Real Estate | By: Sam Walker
From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Median sales prices for homes on the Outer Banks neared record highs in the second quarter of 2024, while total inventory for the first half of the year is recovering. According to the latest MLS report from the Outer Banks Association of Realtors, the residential median sales price for the months of April, [...] Real Estate | Full ArticleRent 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
NC Wildlife Resources Commission Executive Director Ingram to retire at end of year
September 16, 2024 | Fishing
After 34 years of service to the state of North Carolina, Cameron Ingram, executive director of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, has announced his retirement effective December 31, 2024. Ingram has served as NCWRC executive director since August 2020. "The collective work of 700 NCWRC employees, 21 Commissioners, and conservation partner supporters, have forged stable, strong, and well-positioned resources for future conservation efforts," Ingram said. "It has been an honor to serve as Executive Director for the greatest conservation agency in the nation." Ingram began his career with NCWRC on May 12, 1997, at the Institute of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill on the first day of the Basic Academy for Wildlife Law Enforcement where he went on to serve as a law enforcement officer for nearly 25 years. Prior to being unanimously confirmed as director, Ingram served as the age [...] Fishing | Full Article
Ocracoke Island-Wide Yard Sale postponed to Sunday, Sept. 15
September 14, 2024 | Community News Brief
Due to the heavy rains on Friday, Sept. 13, and expected showers on Saturday, Sept. 14, the Ocracoke Island-Wide Yard Sale is postponed to Sunday, Sept. 15. Hours are the same: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., but some participants may have canceled.Twiford Funeral Homes celebrates its 37th consecutive NFDA Pursuit ...
September 13, 2024 | Community News Brief
Twiford Funeral Homes proudly announces its unparalleled achievement of being honored with the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Pursuit of Excellence Award for the 37th consecutive year. This remarkable streak not only underscores Twiford Funeral Homes’ enduring commitment to excellence in funeral service but also cements its position as one of the top three funeral [...] Community News Brief | Full ArticleResort Realty of the Outer Banks, a leading OBX vacation rental company, is pleased to announce the addition of Lisa Nicholson to the role of Business Development Manager for Nags Head and Hatteras Island. Lisa comes to Resort with over 12 years of experience in the local vacation rental market. An Outer Banks resident since 2009, Lisa has worked [...] Community News Brief | Full ArticleThe Dare County Sheriff’s Office issued the following press release on September 11 about an ongoing phone scam that is affecting Dare County residents. Once again, scammers are at work. The Dare County Sheriff’s Office will not call you in regard to missing court for Jury Duty or other court-related issues. You will not be [...] Community News Brief | Full ArticleDare Soil & Water Conservation District presents inaugural Sa ...
September 12, 2024 | Community News Brief
The Dare Soil & Water Conservation District awarded the inaugural Salt Marsh Award to Erin Fleckenstein on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, during a short ceremony with her peers and colleagues. The Salt Marsh Award was founded to recognize individuals who make outstanding contributions to the conservation of natural resources in Dare County, with a particular [...] Community News Brief | Full ArticleMeet 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/October 4, 1933 – August 31, 2024 KITTY HAWK — Remo Moscatelli, age 90, of Kitty Hawk, NC, passed away peacefully on August 31, 2024. Born on October 4, 1933, in Nanticoke, PA, he lived a life dedicated to his faith, family, and community. Remo served his country honorably in the United States Navy during [...] Obituaries | Full Article March 13, 1943 – September 12, 2024 WANCHESE — Donald Slye Payne, a native of Wanchese, NC, passed away on September 12, 2024, in Chesapeake, VA, at the age of 81. Born on March 13, 1943, Donald led a life marked by dedication and hard work. Donald was a proud graduate of Dare County Public [...] Obituaries | Full ArticleRobert Louis Borzellino died of natural causes September 15, 2024 in Nags Head. He was 78. Robert was born in the Lackawana, PA area. He served honorably in the United States Army. Robert’s cremation care will be provided as he planned, and no services are planned in accordance with his wishes. Survivors include his brother Paul Borzellino and his [...] Obituaries | Full ArticleJames J. Pfizenmayer. (1942 -2024) Born in Philadelphia, PA to the late Norman and Carmelita Pfizenmayer – the second of four sons. James was a veteran US Marine. His first duty station sent him to Olathe, KS where he met and married his former wife, Barbara Pfizenmayer (mother of his four children). After 24 years [...] Obituaries | Full ArticleBill Morris, born March 13, 1955, passed away peacefully on September 7, 2024. He will be missed by many, most of all by his four children Will, John, Joseph, and Maggie (Nick), two = grandchildren Bryce and Wyatt, sister Beth (Jeff), former wife Lynn and Aunt Helen. Bill is survived by cousins Allan S. Reynolds (Harriet) of Norfolk [...] Obituaries | Full ArticleDecember 30, 1931 – July 4, 2024 • August 17, 1931 – July 21, 2024 MANTEO — Virginia Louis (“Louâ€) Newsome Overman and William Jackson (“Jackâ€) Overman, Jr. passed away in July at their home in Manteo, North Carolina; Lou on July 4, 2024, and Jack on July 21, 2024, after 69 years of marriage. [...] Obituaries | Full Article
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