Firemen’s Ball scheduled for May 25

By the Ocracoke Observer The Ocracoke Volunteer Fire Department (OFVD) will hold its annual Firemen’s Ball at the Berkley Barn on Saturday, May 25. This fundraiser, one of the island’s biggest social events, includes BBQ dinners that can be taken home and two auctions. This is the most important fundraising event for the OVFD, which, […]

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Outer Banks community celebrates the grand re-opening of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum

The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum celebrated the completion of a years-long renovation project with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that was held on Thursday afternoon, May 16. With an official and public re-opening date of May 20 on the horizon, community members and organizations who were part of the renovation process – as well as the […]

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New plan details strategy to save, restore NC’s salt marshes

From CoastalReview.org Threats to the state’s 220,000 acres of salt marshes spurred the development of a five-year strategy designed to protect and restore this vegetation that helps protect shorelines from erosion and provides habitat for juvenile seafood to grow. Released Wednesday, the North Carolina Salt Marsh Action Plan has the overarching goal “to protect, restore, […]

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Cape Hatteras National Seashore advises visitors to avoid the beach adjacent to Ocean Drive in Rodanthe

Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) is advising its visitors to avoid the beach adjacent to Ocean Drive in Rodanthe, due to exposed wires, pipes and septic systems. The Seashore is working with Dare County and the Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative on the exposed hazards. Hazards, such as building materials and parts of septic systems, may […]

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Corps of Engineers outlines current efforts to remediate Buxton Beach at public meeting

Community members heard an update on the efforts to remediate environmental hazards, (and specifically petroleum contamination), on a roughly 500-yard section of Buxton Beach at a public meeting held on March 14. Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service, the Dare County Board of Commissioners, the U.S. Coast Guard, and […]

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John David Abshire, Jr.

January 10, 1961 – May 7, 2024 KITTY HAWK — John David (J.D.) Abshire, Jr. of Kitty Hawk, NC, died Tuesday, May 7, 2024, after a brief illness. Born January 10, 1961, in Norfolk, Virginia, he was the son of the late John David Abshire, Sr. and Yvonne Hooker Abshire. J.D. graduated from Kempsville High […]

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