From SamWalkerOBXNews.com A coastal storm will likely cause soundside flooding along southern Hatteras Island and Ocracoke and ocean overwash from Oregon Inlet to Buxton starting early Friday morning. “With strong northerly winds gusting to 50-70 mph expected, move vehicles to higher ground and get stuff up off the ground, better safe than wet,” said Dare County Emergency Management […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The parent company of the Outer Banks area’s largest grocery store chain acknowledged on Monday that some of their systems were hit by a cyberattack. However, exact details of the hack of Food Lion’s systems have not been disclosed, or the possible impacts to customers. Ahold Delhaize USA, which owns and operates Food […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The Dare County Board of Commissioners have agreed to submit a National Scenic Byway Grant application at the request of the Outer Banks National Scenic Byway Committee to fill in another piece of paved multi-use path for Frisco and Buxton. The villages are the only ones on Hatteras Island without completed paved pathways. […]
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From SamWalkerOBXnews.com North Carolina has set a new record for in-person early voting, while almost 31,000 ballots have been accepted in the three Outer Banks counties ahead of Election Day 2024. “I am proud of all of our 100 county boards of elections and the thousands of election workers who are making this happen in […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Nearly 25,000 ballots have been cast in the three Outer Banks counties, matching the pace set four years ago ahead of early voting coming to end Saturday at 3 p.m. Statewide, more than 3.6 million ballots have been cast either in-person or by mail so far, accounting for over 46 percent of the state’s […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The second phase of the resurfacing of U.S. 158, U.S. 64 and N.C. 12 at Whalebone Junction and on the Nags Head Causeway began this week. Contractors have been working on a multi-year project to replace the tarmac along the main highway on the northern Outer Banks from the Wright Memorial Bridge in […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com With one week to go before Election Day 2024, almost 20,000 votes have been cast in the three Outer Banks counties as of Monday. Data from the North Carolina State Board of Elections posted Tuesday morning show Dare has the most ballots cast either by mail or in-person of any county in the […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The opening day of early voting in North Carolina on Thursday set a new record across the state, as voters cast the first in-person ballots of the 2024 general election. The first day saw Democrats in the state casting more ballots than any other affiliation, and women outpaced men. But the weather may […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The Dare County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to apply for a FEMA grant that could be used to buyout oceanfront houses threatened by rapid beach erosion along Rodanthe. The Flood Mitigation Assistance grant would be used to target around 20 properties in Rodanthe that are located close to the ocean and within […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Internet services through Spectrum appears to be down across the country on Thursday morning, including the Outer Banks and northeastern North Carolina. Business and residential customers of the service provided by cable giant Charter Communications began reporting their internet dropped out around 8:30 a.m. DownDetector.com, a website that monitors outages, shows customers reporting […]
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