Grandy Solar Farm Nears Completion

When Currituck County’s Grandy solar farm goes on-line this fall (its third), it will generate 18 megawatts of electricity on the 118-acre parcel in Grandy, and will bring a four-year permitting [...]

OBX Attracts Vibrant Artistic Community

This holiday season we are all looking for that perfect gift. You know, something out of the ordinary. Fortunately for us, there are obx artists all up and down the Outer Banks that specialize in [...]

Harvesting the Wind

The turbines on the windmills of Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East had barely started turning when controversy surfaced about whether the project should continue. After nearly eight years of planning, [...]

More than Red Kettles: The Salvation Army

Most people think of red kettles and bell ringers at Christmas when they think of The Salvation Army, but Captain Kenny Igleheart and his wife, Julie, know that’s just a tiny piece of what the [...]

The Original Showboat

Residents of small towns along Mid-Atlantic waterways excitedly ran to the dock when the massive two story James Adams Floating Theater slowly glided into view behind its two tug boats. This was [...]

The Restoration of a Rosenwald School

This dilapidated, four-room schoolhouse currently sits by the road at on Caratoke Highway in Coinjock and hardly looks like the historic structure that it is. Owner, Paul Robinson, has purchased [...]

Farmhouse Revival

The former home of Edmund McHorney, Jr. probably would have been torn down as Currituck County worked to clear away old abandoned buildings, if Reeves Manning hadn’t put it on the North Carolina [...]