North Carolina
First Look: Edgecamp Pamlico Station Arrives on Hatteras Island, North Carolina
Hatteras Island, the southernmost of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, has a long legacy as a destination for kitesurfing, beach combing, and generally unplugging (complete with notoriously spotty cell service). Historically, lodging options included a smattering of inns, motels, campgrounds, and vacation rentals. Opening this month, the Edgecamp Pamlico Station hotel, designed by celebrity interior designer and potter Jonathan Adler, ushers in a new level of accommodations.
Pamlico Station owner Richard Fertig first came to the area in 2018 to learn to kiteboard. “I instantly found the island remarkable. The natural beauty, the wetlands—everything about it was so unique. I continued coming back year after year and found there were such limited places to stay,” he says. “I had the idea to create a hospitality experience that would open up this incredible destination to more travelers but also something that matched the Outer Banks’ world-class caliber.” The result is a residential-style hotel that offers a certain barefoot elegance along with wellness-focused amenities, concierge service, and easy access to nature. Each of the fourteen suites comes with an outdoor living space and water views of the Pamlico Sound.
Inside, the suites are cozy and upscale. “Our initial inspiration was Mother Nature—she’s the world’s best designer—and the environment surrounding Pamlico Station,” Adler says. “The hotel is alongside one of the largest preserved parcels of the Outer Banks’ shoreline, which is so beautifully remote and majestic, and we infused elements of it in the colors we used.” The interiors capture Adler’s signature upscale midcentury style, with a mix of ceramic tiles, organic textures such as mohair and bouclé, and cool metals.
“Design has the power to reflect back your most interesting and glamorous self,” Adler says. “And who doesn’t want to feel especially glamorous on vacation?”
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Anchoring the bedrooms is the Adler-designed Riviera Wave Bed, featuring sand-colored bouclé and curved natural reeds that evoke the shape of water coming on shore. “I feel it’s important to design with a sense of place,” says the designer, noting that the colors of the surrounding landscape flow through the hotel’s living spaces in pops of green and blue.
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“We mixed rattan and lacquer for a polished yet rustic look,” Adler says. Some suites come with a Malm fireplace in Bengal orange, perfect for warming up after a day out in the wind and waves.
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Wellness is a theme at Edgecamp Pamlico Station, says Fertig, evidenced by a cold plunge and sauna for guests to use on demand. “We wanted to create a place where you can relax after a day of outdoor exploration. I like to say, ‘Play hard but recover intentionally.’ The wellness center was the perfect complement to the active lifestyle the Outer Banks offers,” he says. Suites come stocked with yoga mats, a Therabody massage gun, resistance bands, and a foam roller.
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The building, formerly a retail center, has been thoughtfully designed to offer exterior access, which means guests can come and go as they please without having to traipse through a lobby. Railings and banisters are clad in organic material to blend into the landscape.
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In the spa bathroom, floors and walls are covered in white and navy penny tile, and rain showers, stocked with Jonathan Adler grapefruit-scented amenities, stand ready to wash away sand and sunscreen.
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Each of the hotel’s fourteen suites comes with a dining area suited for four guests and a full kitchen, which visitors may choose to have pre-stocked with their favorite groceries. The concierge team can also arrange for a private chef to prepare in-room meals. “We’ve reimagined luxury by blending standout design, personalized and private service, and unparalleled access to outdoor adventure, creating an experience that’s really unlike anything else on the islands,” Fertig says.
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For the suite living rooms, Adler commissioned custom rugs made of 100 percent recycled materials. He says sustainability can also be about longevity and durability. “In everything I design, whether it’s products or places, I want them to be of extraordinary quality so that you can appreciate them for years and years without having to throw away or adjust a thing,” Adler says. “My motto has always been, ‘If your heirs won’t fight over it, we won’t make it.’”
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Adler, who considers himself “first and foremost a potter,” took pride in selecting artful ceramics and tile. The bedrooms are accented with his sculptural Grenade Column lamps and Soleil Tile Art, crafted from colorful ground recycled glass and stoneware.
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A circa-1968 photograph of a paraglider in Acapulco, by society photographer Slim Aarons, is the nostalgic centerpiece of a suite living room. Beyond taking inspiration from the Outer Banks, Adler says, “We drew upon other glamorous beachside locales, like the French and Italian Rivieras in the fifties and sixties.”
With one exception, Democrats have lost every single U.S. Senate race in North Carolina this century, their quests in recent years rocked by controversy and difficult political climates. This year, they are betting two things will make it different: The candidate is Roy Cooper, the southern state’s former governor, and the economy, where voter anger could imperil the party in power.
Months out from Election Day, Cooper’s Senate campaign is centering his message on economic anxiety. In his first television ad of the cycle — details of which were first reported by MS NOW — Cooper weaves his personal story with the kitchen-table concerns preoccupying voters.
“I’m running for the Senate to make life easier today,” Cooper says in the spot, which his campaign says is part of a seven-figure ad buy. “To go after insurance companies ripping you off. To make sure you can retire with dignity. And to build an economy that finally values working people.”
The North Carolina race is primed to be one of the most important contests of this fall’s midterms as he attempts to flip control of one of North Carolina’s U.S. Senate seats for the first time since 2008. The recruitment of Cooper — a two-term governor who was elected both times while Trump carried the state in the same election cycle — has buoyed the party’s hopes.
This is also a contest in which Trump’s influence is clearly a factor. The president has thrown his support behind former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley, pitting a candidate with deep ties to Trump against Cooper, who has long demonstrated an ability to win in the state despite national political headwinds.
SHELBY, N.C. — A former North Carolina police officer caught on a doorbell camera repeatedly punching a woman in the face was charged Monday with assault.
The video of Shelby Officer Karson Hyder pummeling Cherrie Moore on Friday has circulated widely on social media.
Hyder, 22, turned himself in to the Cleveland County Detention Center Monday morning and was released on a $10,000 secured bond. Court records do not list an attorney for him, and a phone number associated with his name was out of service.
Hyder, who was suspended Friday and fired on Saturday, was responding to a breaking-and-entering call when the scuffle ensued.
According to a warrant, Moore, 34, fled the residence on foot and resisted arrest, assaulting Hyder by “grabbing and ripping (his) uniform.”
A separate warrant filed Monday alleged Hyder “unlawfully and willfully did assault and strike Cherrie Moore” by grabbing Moore “by the arm, pushing her to the ground and striking her in the face with a closed fist, thereby inflicting serious injury possible broken nose and busted lip.”
The State Bureau of Investigation had announced Saturday it had opened an investigation into Hyder.
Moore was initially charged with breaking and entering, resisting arrest and assault on a public officer, but the latter two charges have since been dismissed. She was freed on an unsecured bond. A phone number associated with Moore was disconnected.
Her attorney, Ronald Haynes, told The Associated Press in an email that Moore “is recovering and receiving treatment for her mental health.”
“The heinous actions of former Officer Karson Hyder will forever negatively impact Ms. Cherrie Moore and her family,” Haynes continued. “It’s a small relief that city officials responded so promptly to terminate and charge Mr. Hyder.”
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North Carolina investigators use drone to arrest man in fatal shooting of Virginia deputy
DOBSON, N.C. — Investigators in North Carolina used a drone to find and arrest a man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Virginia sheriff’s deputy who was conducting a welfare check, authorities said.
The suspect, identified as Michael Puckett, was found with a gun on Sunday night, two days after the shooting, as he was ringing the doorbell of a home several miles away from the Virginia state line. He was arrested in North Carolina’s Surry County and was booked without bond, the state’s bureau of investigation said in a news release. Multiple law enforcement agencies took part in the search.
Puckett, 55, faced an extradition hearing Monday in North Carolina. He did not have an attorney listed, a court clerk said. It was not immediately known where Puckett was from.
The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said the fatal shooting occurred after law enforcement received a request from a family member to do a welfare check on Friday.
A man at the home began shooting, and the two sheriff’s deputies who had responded returned fire, the sheriff’s office said. Both deputies were hit.
Carroll County Sheriff Kevin Kemp said Deputy Logan Utt was killed. The second deputy, who was struck in his ballistic vest, was recovering at home and was in good condition, Kemp said at a news conference Sunday night.
Other people were in the home at the time. They were not hurt, Kemp said.
Utt, 31, was a military veteran who joined the department in 2023. A funeral procession was scheduled Monday afternoon from Roanoke, Virginia, to a funeral home in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
“He had a servant’s heart. He cared for others, he cared for his country, he cared for his family,” Kemp said.
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