The Town of Southern Shores’ administrative offices will be closed tomorrow, and there will be no trash collection until Tuesday, as previously announced by the Town.
The Town Council meeting scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday has been rescheduled until 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the Pitts Center.
According to a Town announcement, the Town Council’s meeting agenda will remain the same. See agenda meeting packet at:
Dare County offices and facilities will be closed tomorrow and Tuesday. There will be no classes or remote learning tomorrow for students of Dare County schools.
For more closures and cancellations, see:
ROAD CLEARANCE: The N.C. Dept. of Transportation will clear N.C. Hwy. 12 and U.S. Hwy. 158 in Southern Shores. Neither the Town nor Dare County will clear the secondary roads. That job is left up to Mother Nature.
ANOTHER HOUSE COLLAPSES IN OCEAN OFF HATTERAS ISLAND
An unoccupied oceanfront house in Buxton, on Hatteras Island, collapsed into the ocean just before sunrise today, according to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, after a high pounding surf washed out the sand beneath its pilings.
Snow from the weekend’s winter-storm nor’easter had just stopped falling when the house collapsed, leaving a massive field of debris along the beach, according to news reports online.
Built in 1979, the house was located at 46201 Tower Circle Road, along a stretch of road noteworthy for other oceanfront houses in Buxton having collapsed there since last September.
At least 16 homes fell in the ocean off Hatteras Island in 2025. All of them were located in Buxton except one that was located in Rodanthe, according to the Island Free Press, which provides an overview of winter-storm conditions on Hatteras and Ocracoke islands. See https://islandfreepress.org.
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*The last time we published The Beacon, we promised to provide you with the full names of the four new Southern Shores Fire Dept. captains who were sworn into office at the last Town Council meeting. They are Matt Jones, Dakota Sawyer, Daniel Wottawa, and Lawson Marsh. For biographical information about each, see p. 3 of the Town Council meeting agenda packet.
BY THE SOUTHERN SHORES BEACON, 2/1/26
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