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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As the temperatures on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands start to drop in the winter months, cold-stunned sea turtles begin to make a more regular appearance along the soundside beaches, and several sea turtles have already been rescued in the past few days, following the Outer Banks’’ recent cold spell. “We just touched cold-stun temps in […]
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As the weather cools and the crowds start to taper off, there is one contingent of visitors who still frequent the Outer Banks in droves once the off-season is in full swing – the migrating birds at the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. As a result, the rare human visitors who also make a trek […]
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The Fair Haven United Methodist Church (UMC) in Rodanthe is once again bringing a Christmas Tree Farm to Rodanthe, in an event that serves as both a fundraiser for the church, as well as an opportunity for islanders to pick up a tree and make their holiday season brighter. The Christmas Tree Farm was first […]
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The Rodanthe Pier had an unusual visitor on Monday afternoon – a wayward deer that was spotted in the ocean waves, swimming towards the shore from the end of the pier. “At Christmas, you have ‘elf on a shelf’…At Thanksgiving you have…..deer under the pier!” stated the Rodanthe Pier in a social media update. The […]
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