The mood at the monthly Buxton Civic Association (BCA) meeting on September 4 was grim, as board members and roughly 20 attendees grappled with a new wave of petroleum smells and debris that have resurfaced at the closed Buxton Beach shoreline. On Tuesday, after strong but not unusual northeast winds, the shoreline of the former […]
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State recreational water quality officials issued a precautionary advisory on Thursday, September 5, warning the public against swimming in ocean waters near Corbina Drive in Rodanthe and near Cottage Avenue and Tower Circle in Buxton. The advisory is due to public health risks resulting from septic drain fields being exposed due to extensive erosion caused […]
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December 30, 1931 – July 4, 2024 • August 17, 1931 – July 21, 2024 MANTEO — Virginia Louis (“Lou”) Newsome Overman and William Jackson (“Jack”) 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. […]
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The 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 […]
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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 […]
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For more information on the background of the Oregon Inlet Life-Saving Station, click here The dream of rescuing the historic 1898 Oregon Inlet Life-Saving/Coast Guard can become a reality. As with so many things, ideas and visions morph and evolve. My first thoughts were of only using the building as a Visitor Center. My first […]
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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/
SOUTHERN SHORES — William O’Brien was born June 25, 1934, in Roanoke, VA, and passed away on July 5, 2024, at his home in Southern Shores, NC, at the age of 90. He worked and visited 87 countries, was married for 63 years, and had ten holes-in-one. It was a very good life! He served […]
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Frustrations about Buxton Beach were evident at the September 3 monthly meeting of the Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC), which featured an update on Buxton Beach by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Savannah District Commander, Col. Ron Sturgeon. From the roughly 20 Hatteras Islanders who attended the meeting virtually at the Fessenden Center […]
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