A new horror movie with ties to Blackbeard the pirate will be filming on the Outer Banks in the month of January, per a recent press release from the movie’s production team at Taylor Film Group. The upcoming horror film, “Outer Banks Slasher,” is a story about a descendant of Blackbeard living on the Outer […]
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With the Rodanthe Pier closed for the 2021/2022 winter season, repairs are currently underway to fix the damage that the pier sustained during an early November storm. The November storm brought ocean overwash to the Outer Banks and closed N.C. Highway 12 for three consecutive days from Rodanthe to Oregon Inlet, and while structural damage […]
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On Friday, December 17, an official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge’s Visitor Center to celebrate a recent milestone for the popular Hatteras Island landmark – the raising of the visitor center by five feet, in an effort to protect it from future storms. Though the renovation project wrapped up […]
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The 37-foot sailing vessel Alhambra, which grounded on the beach close to the Avon Pier on Sunday, successfully launched back into the ocean on Wednesday afternoon, December 15. IFP Contributor Rory Kelleher captured the action along the Avon shoreline on Wednesday, showcasing the final moments before the Alhambra returned to the water. A small area […]
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For the second year in a row, the St. John United Methodist Church (UMC) in Avon will host a Christmas Eve Outdoor Live Nativity and Candlelight Service, which is a decades-old tradition for the Avon church, with a slightly new setting. “Since the church began in the 1800s, they held a Christmas Eve pageant,” said […]
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The Hatteras Village Christmas Parade, which is celebrating its 30th year in 2021, has been postponed to 2:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, December 12, due to heavy rain in the forecast for Saturday afternoon and evening. The parade first originated in 1991 with local fire trucks and emergency vehicles, a handful of impressive floats, a mini […]
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Early on Saturday morning, December 11, a 37-foot sailing vessel named the Alhambra safely grounded just north of the Avon Fishing Pier. The National Park Service is working with the U.S. Coast Guard and the vessel’s owner to remove any hazardous substances, and have the boat removed from the beach. The vessel had one sailor […]
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The Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC) unanimously approved a motion at their December 6 meeting to award a $25,870,000 bid to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company for the 2022 Avon and Buxton beach nourishment projects. The county received three bids for the project on November 17 from Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, […]
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With 95% of the Jug Handle Bridge project finished as of December 2, the new bridge is expected to be complete by early 2022, with traffic shifting onto the structure in February or March, per an update from the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) resident engineer for the project, Pablo Hernandez. “If the weather […]
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Earlier in the year, Dare County was awarded financial assistance from the state to perform a risk and vulnerability assessment on Hatteras Island, and to develop a portfolio of planned and prioritized projects. As part of this program, island residents are currently being encouraged to share their input and insight via a recently launched Dare County […]
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