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Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, Aphrodite, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on Aphrodite, and the many other Outer Banks pets currently up for adoption, visit the Outer Banks SPCA website at https://www.obxspca.org/, or their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/obxspca/

  In cooperation with area municipalities, local businesses, and area locals, Current TV has released the first of a series of PSA’s highlighting why it’s important we all follow North Carolina’s Executive Order to wear a Face Covering in public places. All programs of CURRENT TV are available for streaming on CURRENT TV’s YouTube Channel [...] Community News Brief |  Full Article

CHEC has presented two local non-profits with grant money made possible through the CoBank Sharing Success Grant Program. CoBank is a national cooperative bank that serves rural areas. The Cape Hatteras United Methodist Men (CHUMM) and Port Health Services were the recipients of this year’s grant money. The cooperative gave $5,000 to CHUMM, which was [...] Community News Brief |  Full Article

Our 2019 Annual Report is published! At a time when more and more experiences are virtual ones, we decided not to print a large batch of reports, but instead, to publish and share an historic year in our Community Foundation with you online. The main reason: there were just too many donors to print – [...] Community News Brief |  Full Article

The day after Gov. Roy Cooper announced that a decision on how to re-open North Carolina’s public schools is still a few weeks away, Dare Schools Superintendent John Farrelly sent an email to families informing them of a survey they will be getting on Tuesday, July 7. The survey will seek their input on what [...] Community News Brief |  Full Article

The Summer Reading Program at the Dare County Libraries is designed to be flexible and fun for children of all ages. Parents can rest easy knowing the Summer Reading Program is educational and will help children maintain the reading skills they developed throughout the school year so they are better prepared to enter the classroom [...] Community News Brief |  Full Article

Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, Astrid, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on Astrid, and the many other Outer Banks pets currently up for adoption, visit the Outer Banks SPCA website at https://www.obxspca.org/, or their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/obxspca/

Dare County offices will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2020 in observance of Independence Day. Offices will reopen on Monday, July 6 at 8:30 a.m.  Dare County Public Works, which provides trash collection for the unincorporated areas of the county and the Town of Kitty Hawk, has announced that trash collection will operate on [...] Community News Brief |  Full Article