Cape Hatteras National Seashore announced Tuesday the National Park Service has signed a 10-year lease with Koru Village, Inc. to provide for the continued maintenance of the Seashore’s Avon Fishing Pier, located in Avon. The lease began on June 1. The National Park Service received multiple proposals in response to a Request for Proposals to…Read More from National Park Service, Koru Village agree to ten-year lease of Avon Fishing Pier
There are birthdays, holidays, barefoot days, wear your PJs to school days, take your child to work days, and then there are Dare Days. Dare Days 2022, showcasing and celebrating our great community, its diverse culture, and rich history over three days in three ways in three different locations in Manteo. Friday, June 3 Dare…Read More from Dare Days returns this weekend with three days celebrating the Outer Banks
The Outer Banks Community Foundation awarded $191,100 in 76 scholarships to 56 students this spring, in a year of firsts for the Community Foundation’s expanding scholarship program. This year, thirty-eight percent of graduation seniors receiving Community Foundation scholarships will be the first in their families to attend college. In addition, three newly-established scholarship programs have…Read More from Outer Banks Community Foundation awards $191,100 in scholarships
A public meeting has been scheduled for Monday in Nags Head to review plans for the Outer Banks Event Center which has been proposed for The Soundside event site. The meeting will take place at the Keeper’s Galley building at Haven on the Banks, 115 Dove Street, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Plans for the…Read More from Public meeting Monday in Nags Head on proposed Outer Banks Event Center
A concert, art show and gallery tour will comprise the 10th Annual Rock The Cape, which will be held on Hatteras Island June 2-3. From 12pm to 5pm on Thursday, June 2, over 25 local and regional artists will gather on the lawn at Kitty Hawk Kites’ Waves Village Watersports Center at Milepost 40 in…Read More from Rock The Cape celebrates visual, performing arts Thursday & Friday on Hatteras
While the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season begins today with above-average activity predicted, tropical cyclone activity did not get a head start this year. A streak that started in 2014 of at least one tropical storm or hurricane forming in the Atlantic basin ahead of the official start of the season on June 1 came to…Read More from Above-average activity forecast as 2022 hurricane season begins
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and remote working became the norm in industries across the board, making that telecommute from as remote a location as possible became appealing on an unmatched scale. And while many have been bringing their work with them while vacationing on the Outer Banks long before it became the norm, some…Read More from Remote working from Outer Banks brings “inner peace” to relocated NoVA resident
Applications are now being accepted for a pair of seats on the Visit Elizabeth City/Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Tourism Development Board of Directors that will be come available on July 1. Under state law, those interested in serving must live or work in Pasquotank County either must be affiliated with a business that is collecting occupancy tax…Read More from Applicants sought for pair of upcoming vacancies on Elizabeth City-Pasquotank tourism board
Cape Hatteras National Seashore is seeking public input on two separate projects at and near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. A public meeting to discuss both projects is scheduled for 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 2 at the Fessenden Center Annex, 47013 Buxton Back Rd, Buxton, N.C. 27920. The public meeting will start with a presentation…Read More from Public meeting Thursday on Cape Hatteras Lighthouse repairs, landscape improvements, multi-use path
This year’s beach nourishment projects along the northern Outer Banks towns and Hatteras Island will be getting started in just a matter of weeks, as equipment is arriving from a pair of contractors that are familiar with widening our beaches. The tentative work schedule posted earlier this year at MoreBeachToLove.com, a collaboration of Dare County…Read More from Outer Banks beach nourishment projects ready to get moving this summer