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Lower, seasonal speed limits in effect along areas of the Outer Banks
As peak travel season on the Outer Banks approaches, the N.C. Department of Transportation crews are changing speed limit signs to reflect lower speed limits along sections of N.C. 12 in parts of Currituck and Dare counties. On May 15, the speed limits in areas through the tri-villages of Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo, as well as in Avon, Corolla and Frisco, were lowered to 35 mph from the ...
Hatteras' Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum reopens after major renovations
An outer banks museum is reopening after two years of extensive renovation. The Graveyard of the Atlantic in Hatteras had received 64,000 visitors a year before the pandemic, and in 2022, it closed for renovations. All artifacts were taken out of the building as workers revamped the indoor space for...
Proposed Dare County fiscal year 2025 budget presented
Dare County manager Robert L. Outten presented the county’s recommended budget for fiscal year 2025 to the Dare County Board of Commissioners during the board’s meeting held on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The recommended budget includes no property tax increase, with the rate to remain at 40.05 cents per $100 of assessed value. The proposed […] The post Proposed Dare County fiscal year 2025 budget presented appeared first on The Coastland Times.
Corps of Engineers outlines current efforts to remediate Buxton Beach at public meeting
Community members heard an update on the efforts to remediate environmental hazards, (and specifically petroleum contamination), on a roughly 500-yard section of Buxton Beach at a public meeting held on March 14. Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service, the Dare County Board of Commissioners,...
Tyrrell students win JCOB essay contest
The Jewish Community of the OBX and the Unitarian Universalist Community of the OBX held a joint Yom Hashoah Memorial Service on Friday, May 3, 2024 commemorating those killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Besides reading the names of those who perished, the JCOB sponsored an essay contest. This year, JCOB received 30 essays […] The post Tyrrell students win JCOB essay contest appeared first on The Coastland Times.
Commentary: Saving the 1898 Oregon Inlet Life-Saving Station will help Hatteras Island… And Hatteras Island can help the 1898 Oregon Inlet Station
Do you want to be part of the heroic rescue of the 1898 Oregon Inlet Life-Saving Station? If so, ‘how to’ will be at the end. But first, a brief background. The Outer Banks Coast Guard History Preservation Group, 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization has a distinct plan to save the 1898 Oregon Inlet Life-Saving Station and to make it multi-functional to benefit millions. Here is how it directly helps Hatteras Island.
Once part of the nation’s largest farm, crops still grow in Dare County — surrounded by wildlife refuge
MANNS HARBOR, N.C. — “It’s good land,” said Matt Respass, a lifelong farmer from just south of Plymouth in Washington County. Respass, 49, recently signed his second three-year lease to farm nearly 339 acres on the Dare County mainland. “Last year, it was a good growing season, and I had a beautiful crop of corn down there,” he said. He plans to plant the fields, which he leases from Dare ...
Howells donate collection to Frisco Native American Museum
David and Barbara Howell of Wilson recently donated a collection of arrowheads and stone tools to the Frisco Native American Museum. The collection was started by David Howell’s father, John Collins Howell, in the early 1960s. David joined his father in collecting in the late 1970s, and for 30 years they added to their finds. They looked in Wilson, Nash […] The post Howells donate collection to Frisco Native American Museum first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.
Frisco Native American Museum will host Meet the Author Dr. Michael Leroy Oberg
Meet Dr. Michael Oberg, author of The Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand, Roanoke’s Forgotten Indians, on Wednesday, May 29th, from 4 pm until 6 pm, at the Frisco Native American Museum’s newly redesigned Natural History Center. Oberg is a historical scholar on Chief Wingina, a distinguished Professor of History at SUNY/Geneseo, and the founder of the Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History, which he directed from 2019 until 2022.
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