From OuterBanksVoice.com Hosted by Dare County Children and Youth Partnership (CYP), the 2024 State of the Child Conference at the Ramada Plaza on Thursday, March 14, presented a troubling picture of a growing crisis in childcare impacting the economic well-being of parents and the ability of employers to fully staff their businesses. Dare County Director […]
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From OuterBanksVoice.com Tucked away in the Feb. 5 Dare County Commissioners meeting—following the approval of $250,000 for a sand assessment study for Hatteras Island—was a comment from County Manager Bobby Outten about a grant that Barton Grover, Grants and Waterways Administrator for the county had just submitted. “Barton is working on a grant application for […]
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From OuterBanksVoice.com Clad in blue football jerseys to highlight the overarching theme of teamwork, the Dare County Commissioners reviewed a series of key county issues during the Jan. 23 State of County event before a packed house at Captain George’s in Kill Devil Hills. Continuing with the football motif, Board Chairman Bob Woodard, holding a […]
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From CoastalReview.org Artificial light at night did not adversely affect sea turtle nesting north of Oregon Inlet from 2014 to 2022, undergraduate students found this fall during a four-month study. A University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment program, the semester-long Outer Banks Field Site combines environmental research and community engagement into the collaborative […]
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By the Outer Banks Voice The Wall That Heals made a grand entrance into Dare County today accompanied by an impressive procession of motorcycles. In fact, the ride that began in Columbia was, according to officials from the Wall That Heals, the largest escort of the exhibit that they have witnessed. The Wall That Heals […]
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By Coastal Review Writing in his just-completed Frank Stick biography published here, author Gilbert M. Gaul wrote of the genesis of the modern tourist industry on the Outer Banks. “Like Stick and others, (Congressman Lindsay) Warren saw the future of the isolated barrier islands as tied to tourism,” Gaul noted. Speakers at a tourism summit sponsored […]
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From Outer Banks Voice With many Outer Banks homeowners confronting a significant increase in their insurance premiums this year, the Outer Banks Association of Realtors (OBAR) hosted a meeting on property insurance on Thursday night, Nov. 2 at the Dare County Board of Commissioners meeting room on Roanoke Island to help provide some answers. Soaring […]
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By The Outer Banks Voice “Life is tough for a lot of people,” said Sheila Davies, Dare County Director of Health and Human Services (DHHS), explaining why Sound Minds, a new mental health collaborative program between Dare County Health and Human Services, Interfaith Community Outreach and the Outer Banks Relief Foundation is so important. “You’ve got […]
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From OuterBanksVoice.com The Threatened Oceanfront Structures Interagency Work Group held its third and final meeting as a webinar on Thursday, Oct. 12. The meeting focused on the role government agencies and regulations play when structures on the oceanfront are threatened by a retreating shoreline that often puts a building in the surf zone. For Dare […]
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By Kip Tabb and Joy Crist. This is a joint reporting project of the Outer Banks Voice and Island Free Press. This article is Part Two in a series of stories about the Kinnakeet Church. To read Part One, click here. For the past few weeks, the potential sale of one of Avon Village’s two churches […]
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