Photos by Don Bowers Although Christmas 2020 is a little subdued this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic, residents all across the island amped up the holiday spirit with some of the best and brightest Christmas light displays in recent memory. Photographer Don Bowers took a tour of the island to highlight just some of […]
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Oh, 2020. We were so excited to see you arrive, and we’ll be so dang glad to see you leave. To say that 2020 was an unusual year is a massive understatement. Looking back at our past “Year in Review” round-up of notable stories, the bulk of our previous lists were topped by hurricanes, new […]
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A strong cold front is expected to impact the Outer Banks late Christmas Eve into Christmas Day, with strong winds likely to produce coastal flooding and possible ocean overwash, per a Wednesday morning update from the National Weather Service Newport / Morehead City Office. A High Wind Warning has been issued for Hatteras and Ocracoke […]
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A strong cold front is expected to affect the Outer Banks late Christmas Eve into Christmas Day, with strong winds likely to produce coastal flooding and possible severe weather, per a Tuesday morning update from the National Weather Service Newport / Morehead City Office Strong southerly winds of up to 30 mph will produce high […]
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On December 16, 1870, the current Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was lit for the very first time, and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore has released a virtual video celebration to commemorate this milestone, as well as the corresponding 150th anniversary of the founding of Dare County. The video made its grand debut at 4:45 p.m. on […]
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Local Hatteras Island photographer Daniel Pullen made national waves this week after earning a spot on Time Magazine’s “100 Best Photos of 2020” list. The winning photo captures a ground-level game room in an oceanfront vacation home that was inundated with flooding during September’s Hurricane Teddy. Distant Hurricane Teddy remained well offshore, but had significant […]
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At 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday, December 16, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, (in partnership with the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society and Outer Banks Forever), will host a virtual celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on the Seashore’s Facebook page and Dare County’s CURRENTtv. The program will begin with a video of the historic light’s illumination, […]
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In conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the lighting of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, a new exhibit has been set up at the lighthouse’s Visitors Center and bookstore which pays tribute to the iconic landmark’s long history through a series of historic photographs. The temporary exhibit, “150 Years of Light, a Photographic Tribute,” includes 57 […]
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On Thursday, December 9, crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet responded to a report from a sailing vessel, “Island Hopper,” that water in their fuel was leading to engine failure. The vessel was stranded approximately six miles northwest of Cape Point in Buxton, on the east side of Diamond Shoals. Thankfully, […]
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With the recent approval by the Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC) to award a $342,640 Tourism Impact Grant from the Dare County Tourism Board for the Hatteras Village Multi-Modal Pathway, hopes are high that actual construction on the years-long project can begin soon, and as early as February of 2021. “The engineers have told […]
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