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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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County 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 […]
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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 […]
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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/
The 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 […]
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The following press release was issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Monday, September 9 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will deploy a team this week to the Former Buxton Naval Facility, a Formerly Used Defense Site property located within Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Dare County, North Carolina. This team […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com A communications outage was reported Monday afternoon on Hatteras and Ocracoke islands, including limited 911 service. Reports are that a fiber optic cable was damaged in the vicinity of the Pea Island Visitors Center, and a repair crew has been dispatched. That is the same area where NCDOT crews had to rebuild dunes along […]
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On September 8, 2024, deputies from the C-District successfully apprehended two suspects in connection with a series of breaking, entering, and larceny incidents reported between September 7 and 8, 2024, in Buxton and Avon, NC. The deputies worked diligently in these incidents and were able to identify two suspects involved. On the morning of September […]
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