Voting for Southern Shores residents this Tuesday, Primary Election Day, will be in the Kern Pitts Center from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The regular first-Tuesday meeting of the Southern Shores Town Council has been rescheduled to March 12, in the Pitts Center, at 5:30 p.m.
The Town has already announced that a public hearing on Zoning Text Amendment 24-01, recently approved by the Planning Board with changes, will be held during the Council meeting. (See The Beacon, 2/23/24.)
Registered Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians will have their own ballots in the “Super Tuesday” primary, while voters who are registered Unaffiliated, the most popular party designation in North Carolina, with 37 percent of all registered voters, will be able to choose the party primary in which they participate.
Voters will be choosing their preference for U.S. presidential nominee, as well as party nominees for N.C. governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and other statewide offices.
Republicans and Unaffiliated voters in the Republican primary will decide two of the three seats on the seven-member Dare County Board of Commissioners that are up for election this year because only one of the candidates has an opponent in the Nov. 5 general election. These candidates are:
Wally Overman vs. Carson Creef for one of the two District 1 seats that represent Roanoke Island and the Dare County mainland on the Board;
Christian Thomas Hayman vs. Robert L. Woodard, District 2, representing Nags Head, Colington, and Kill Devil Hills; and
Bea Basnight vs. Mike Burrus, for the other District 1 seat, to fill the unexpired term of the late Jim Tobin that runs until 2026.
The victor in the Hayman-Woodard primary will face Democratic challenger Katie Morgan of Colington in November.
The Beacon published a rundown of the primary election on 2/14/24, with links to information about candidates.
TICKETS FOR FLAT TOP TOUR ARE NOW FOR SALE ONLINE
Tickets are now for sale online—for the first time ever—for the 2024 Southern Shores Historic Flat Top Tour, which is scheduled Sat., April 27, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Tickets cost $10 and are available for purchase with a credit card at https://southernshoreshistoricflattops.ticketleap.com. There is a $1.50 fee per ticket transaction.
You also may purchase tickets in person, with cash or a check, on the day of the tour, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the Southern Shores Historic Flat Top Cottages owners’ tent in the Southern Shores Crossing at 1 Ocean Blvd. (The Crossing is the shopping center behind Southern Shores Realty Co.) Tickets will not be for sale at the individual cottages, as has been the case in past tours.
All proceeds will benefit the Flat Top Preservation Fund of the Outer Banks Community Foundation, whose offices formerly occupied the flat top at 13 Skyline Road.
This year’s self-guided tour features 14 flat top cottages, five of which have been designated historic landmarks by the Town of Southern Shores. They are, traveling from north to south:
218 Ocean Blvd. (Mackey Cottage)
18 East Dogwood Trail (“Oh So Sandy”)
170 Ocean Blvd. (“Pink Perfection,” aka Edith Pipkin Cottage)
169 Ocean Blvd. (“Atlantic Breezes”)
157 Ocean Blvd. (“Sea Breezes”)
23 Porpoise Run (Sokol/Clements Cottage)
156 Wax Myrtle Trail (Clarke/Gudas Cottage)
159 Wax Myrtle Trail (Falconer Cottage)
142 Ocean Blvd. (“Seaquel”)
113 Ocean Blvd. (Knight Cottage)
69 Ocean Blvd. (“Sea Spray” Cottage)
43 Ocean Blvd. (Powell/Harritt Cottage)
78 Skyline Road
13 Skyline Road (owned by the Town of Southern Shores)
You will be able to park off-road near the cottages.
For more information about the tour, see the Facebook page for Southern Shores Historic Flat Top Cottages, at https://www.facebook.com/Southern-Shores-Historic-Flat-Top-Cottages-421136131314749 or its website at https://southernshoreshistoricflattops.com.
THE BEACON, 3/3/24
The Southern Shores Beacon 
Thank you Ann for the coverage of the flat top tour; much appreciated. Hope all is well with you. Steve Gudas
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