ATLANTIC BEACH — Precautionary efforts to stop the coronavirus outbreak continue to mount, as town officials are trying to discourage out-of-town visitors from coming.

Atlantic Beach — Residents and visitors won’t have to worry about paid parking in the spaces around the perimeter of the Atlantic Beach Circle this summer, but there will be a 30-minute time limit.

ATLANTIC BEACH — Town officials continue to pursue a new public administration complex, but one councilman is balking at the estimated cost.

ATLANTIC BEACH — The Carteret Community College Board of Trustees approved a 10-year facility master plan Tuesday that includes three new classroom buildings and major renovations to the campus.

BOGUE BANKS — In the beachside towns of Carteret County, there’s a demographic that’s helped shape the way the towns have grown, despite only living on the coast part of the year.

ATLANTIC BEACH — The Liberty Island dredge boat went into port Friday but had already nourished roughly 8,000 linear feet of the strand in Atlantic Beach, depositing 280,000 cubic yards of sand.

atlantic beach — The $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project got off to a fast start this week, as sand was piped to and spread from the Circle development district to the 300 block of Ocean Ridge Road as of Friday morning.

atlantic beach — Some sand hit the town’s strand Thursday as a $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project got underway.

EMERALD ISLE — As expected, the contractor for the county’s $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project began delivering and assembling pipes and equipment last week.

CHERRY POINT — Four Marines were awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the highest non-combat decoration for heroism, during a ceremony Tuesday morning aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point for their efforts to save a family caught in a rip current off Atlantic Beach in 2018.

CAPE CARTERET — County school officials are concerned about the impact of residential growth in the western part of the county on schools, especially White Oak Elementary.

BOGUE BANKS — On Jan. 17, four days after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it had approved $281 million for beach nourishment work on Bogue Banks and in North Topsail and Surf City in Onslow and Pender counties, Raleigh’s The News & Observer ran an opinion piece.

Atlantic Beach — Environmentalists and others looking to volunteer have an opportunity to join the N.C. Coastal Federation for a cleanup event at Hoop Pole Creek Nature Trail.

MOREHEAD CITY — Atlantic Beach officials are facing a dilemma: allow commercial uses along the Atlantic Beach Causeway to be phased out or provide wastewater infrastructure to the business corridor.

EMERALD ISLE — Bogue Banks’ next beach nourishment project is ready to roll, with dredging and pumping of sand set to begin the first week of February, a little earlier than originally planned.

ATLANTIC BEACH — After taking a few weeks off for the holidays, N.C. Department of Transportation crews resumed work on the Atlantic Beach Causeway bridge last week.

ATLANTIC BEACH — At its first meeting of 2020, the town planning board is scheduled to take action on a suite of Unified Development Ordinance changes.

atlantic beach — There’s a growing pile of natural Christmas greenery at the Fort Macon State Park Visitor Center’s parking lot as visitors drop their undecorated trees off.

atlantic Beach — A large crowd dashed into 2020 in a chilly way Wednesday during the 17th annual Penguin Plunge.

Editor's note: This article was last updated Sept. 7 at 4:10 p.m.

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BOGUE BANKS — Hurricane Dorian is passing by Myrtle Beach, S.C., and will soon arrive along the North Carolina coast, though its effects have already been seen in Carteret County.