DOT awards contracts for highway repair and plans four-wheel-drive route on Hatteras

The North Carolina Department of Transportation has awarded two of three contracts to repair damage from Hurricane Sandy on Highway 12 on Hatteras Island and is making progress clearing sand from roads along the Outer Banks. DOT is also making plans to open a four-wheel-drive route between Rodanthe and the Bonner Bridge. Currently, Hatteras Island […]

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Weekday priority for Hatteras residents on emergency ferries begins Monday

Dare County has listened to Hatteras residents who need to leave the island for doctor’s appointments, jobs, and other business and has announced that beginning Monday, Nov. 5, priority boarding will be given to Hatteras Island residents traveling weekdays on the emergency ferry service between Stumpy Point and Rodanthe.  Priority boarding for residents will be […]

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Officials address storm issues at community meeting in Avon

Dare County, North Carolina Department of Transportation, and Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative officials met with residents today in a community meeting, hosted by the Avon Volunteer Fire Department, to address recovery from Superstorm Sandy. Dare County commissioners Allen Burrus and Warren Judge, county manager Bobby Outten, Susan Flythe from the CHEC, and Sterling Baker, division […]

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