On Saturday at 8:34 p.m., SpaceX launched the Falcon 9’s European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and folks on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands were able to catch the show from multiple locations. This was the 20th flight of the first stage [...] Island Features | Full Article
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Portsmouth Island Homecoming returns for 2024 on April 27
April 25, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
Every two years, deserted Portsmouth Island comes alive with hundreds of descendants, friends, and visitors during a springtime event that honors the once-thriving village’s roots, and rekindles the island’s inherent sense of community. The event that brings everyone together is the Portsmouth Island Homecoming, and the more than 30-year tradition is once again returning for [...] Island Features | Full Article
Weekly Hatteras Village Community Fish Fry returns for 2024 on May ...
April 25, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
Organizers are gearing up for the 2024 season of the Hatteras Community Fish Fry, a weekly Hatteras village event that has been a tradition for roughly 80 years. Once again, the Hatteras Volunteer Fire Department will be the seasonal home of the fish fry from May 25 until August 31. Profits from the Fish [...] Island Features | Full Article
Island History: A spotlight on stories from the Outer Banks’ Lif ...
April 25, 2024 | Island Features | By: Jen Carlson
The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station (CLSS) is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, as one of the seven original Life-Saving Stations to be built in North Carolina in 1874. As such, the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station and Historic Site in Rodanthe will be sharing stories about the seven 1874 Outer Banks stations in the months ahead, leading [...] Island Features | Full Article
Island History: Memories of Ocracoke residents from 1942, preserve ...
April 24, 2024 | Island Features | By: Kevin Duffus
The kindly, great-grandfather of 17 children smiled uncomfortably as he sat in front of a large TV camera, with lights glaring, a microphone clipped to his blue, black, and gray flannel shirt, and strangers about to ask him to relive one of the most horrific, heart-rending moments of his life. His name was Ulysses Levi [...] Island Features | Full Article
Nonprofit dedicated to saving the 1898 Oregon Inlet Life-Saving St ...
April 24, 2024 | Island Features | By: James D. “Keeper James” Charlet
Its name is the Outer Banks Coast Guard History Preservation Group. The broad name is to match its broad objective, starting with rescuing the 1898 Oregon Inlet U.S. Life-Saving Service (LSS) Station No. 16. Here is the Oregon Inlet LSS Station’s brief background, or ‘How It Got into This Mess.’ It started in 1988 when [...] Island Features | Full Article
Hotline Thrift Store is returning to Hatteras Island with a new Fr ...
April 22, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
The Hotline South Thrift Store has been a Hatteras Island fixture for two decades, but for a brief spell in 2024, the island community was concerned that the store was in danger of permanently closing. After leasing retail space in Buxton for roughly 20 years, the store discovered in 2023 that they would need to [...] Island Features | Full Article
Oyster Roast on May 11 will benefit the Frisco-Buxton Pathway
April 20, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
The community is invited to an oyster roast on Saturday, May 11, at the Frisco Woods Campground, with oysters, barbecue, Lost Colony Beer, a bounce house, and live music, which will all combine to raise funds for the Frisco-Buxton Pathway. The Oyster Roast is from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and is $40 for adults and [...] Island Features | Full Article
CHSS Theater Program’s biggest production yet, “The Li ...
April 19, 2024 | Island Features | By: Joy Crist
Since December 2023, the talented students at Cape Hatteras Secondary School (CHSS) have been working hard to launch one of their most ambitious theater productions yet. The upcoming production of “The Little Mermaid,” which is hitting the stage April 19-21, has a crew of approximately 100 students and volunteers working behind the scenes, perfecting every [...] Island Features | Full Article
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