Local Luminaries

For decades, Jim and Ann Poulos have spent months of their lives providing a Christmas spectacle of lights. The homemade spectacle now has its own Facebook page thanks to the younger generation [...]

A Christmas to Remember

There have been moments during the holiday season that I have found myself wishing it was another holiday. I mean I would take any other holiday – even Labor Day, which I hate because it signals [...]

Festival of Trees

Twenty five years ago, Outer Banks resident Mary Ann Williams brought home an idea for a fundraiser that would forever change the future of Outer Banks Hotline. “Mary Ann came to the board of [...]

DIY Holiday Crafts

If you want to give something more personal than a store-bought gift and you haven’t been knitting wool scarves since July, we have a couple of  ideas for even the  most [...]

Old Christmas in Rodanthe

In the days of yore, Old Christmas on the Outer Banks was an imaginative, playful custom observed enthusiastically by the entire community on northern Hatteras island. More accurately, the annual [...]