Oct 6
By Mark Jurkowitz | Outer Banks Voice
As NCDOT moves toward implementing its new ferry plan by Jan.1, 2027, it will make rate and implementation recommendations during an Oct. 8 meeting of the NC Board of Transportation.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company has announced that the 2026 Buxton beach nourishment project has been completed, with the contractor delivering the final load of sand on Saturday, October 3, 2026.
On the same day Dare County kicks off three community meetings on the proposed sales tax increase on the November ballot, Currituck County has released a message making the case for approving a similar referendum there.
The first of three Dare County community meetings on the Nov. 3 sales tax referendum will be held on Monday, Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. at the Fessenden Center, 46830 N.C. Highway 12, Buxton. That will be followed by a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at the Lions Club Center, 1000 Westcott Park Road, Manteo. One day later, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, the last meeting will be held at the Dare County Youth Center, 602 Mustian Street, Kill Devil Hills.
UPDATE: On the morning of Monday, Oct. 5, NCDOT has posted this update on the continuing work on NC12 after a section was severely damaged during the recent Nor’easter. We are back at it today, rebuilding the road shoulder on NC12 at the Pea Island Visitor Center. There will be periodic lane closures this week as we do that work, reconstruct the dune line and lay down permanent lane markings. Please continue to drive with caution.
By Kip Tabb | Outer Banks Voice
There were more than 430 bowls, cups and plates waiting for ticket holders at the Empty Bowls event at St. Andrews by the Sea on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 2.
Crafted by local artisans as well as students at First Flight High School, Manteo High School, Manteo Middle School, Currituck High School and the College of the Albemarle, the bowls give the event its name.
After assessing input gathered through five community meetings and a county-wide survey, Currituck County reports that “residents consistently raised concerns about the relationship between residential growth, infrastructure capacity and the preservation of community character.”
By Brian Tress | Outer Banks Voice
Manteo's claim to a haunted reputation starts with the fate of 117 people in 1587. When Governor John White sailed back to the Roanoke colony in 1590, he found it empty — the word "CROATOAN" carved into a post, no bodies and no sign of a fight. That mystery set the stage — literally and figuratively — for that space between fact and fiction, history and lore, where a fog of uncertainty blurs the line between what is real and what isn't.
By Maggie Miles | Outer Banks Voice
What happens when leaders from the arts and literary communities and the descendants of local indigenous tribes and the Pea Island Life-Saving surfmen get together?
By Mark Jurkowitz | Outer Banks Voice
Amid some confusion, NC Senate candidate Jerry Tillett said an Oct. 9 NC 12 Town Hall meeting promoted on his campaign Facebook page is not “intended for campaign purposes.”
