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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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 […]
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The Dare County Department of Health & Human Services released the following, updated Public Health Advisory on Sunday, September 8, in response to the expansion of the Buxton Beach closure. The Cape Hatteras National Seashore announced the closure expansion on Thursday, September 5. The closure includes the beachfront in front of the southern groin and […]
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Ocean overwash was reported near the Pea Island Visitor Center on Sunday, September 8, after dunes in the immediate area were washed out. N.C. Highway 12 remains open and passible, but travelers are advised to use caution due to standing water and sand on the highway. High tide occurred at approximately noon on Sunday, September […]
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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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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 the Buxton Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District Commander, Col. Ron Sturgeon. From the roughly 20 Hatteras Islanders who attended the meeting virtually […]
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Photos by Don Bowers The first-ever Labor Day Lighthouse 5K on Monday, September 2, drew a crowd of approximately 125 participants who were treated to sunny weather and amazing views of the scaffolded Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, which is in the middle of an extensive restoration project. The new-in-2023 Barrier Island Group (B.I.G.), in cooperation with the National […]
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On September 1, 2023, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) issued a temporary closure for a small stretch of Buxton Beach after two offshore hurricanes eroded the shoreline, and exposed leftover infrastructure from a 1956-2010 military base, as well as sporadic but strong petroleum smells. Since then, the closure has been expanded slightly, from two-tenths […]
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A dredging project to reopen the emergency ferry channel between Rodanthe and Stumpy Point is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 3. The contractor conducting the bucket-and-barge dredging operation is currently mobilizing at the Rodanthe Harbor site for the work ahead, and the majority of the project is expected to be completed by Friday, September […]
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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 […]
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