Life & Wellness

Growing up we didn’t have a lot of money. My dad worked in a factory – a blue collar job in the blue-collar city of Cleveland, Ohio. There were layoffs and strikes that my parents had to contend [...]

History is all around us on the Outer Banks. It begins with Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony and the birth of Virginia Dare, the first child born of English parentage in the New World back in [...]

Though the doors of the C.A. Wright Store closed decades ago, memories of its heydays are very much alive and remembered.

Anyone who has spent time on the Outer Banks knows the magical hold it can have on you. If you’ve ever caught sight of the breathtaking sunrise growing from the Atlantic, each one as singular in [...]

When you are on vacation, you want to know all the best beach spots for spending those long, blissful days amid the sun, sand and surf. After all, you need more than just your beach chair, [...]

Stroll the hallways of Dare County’s three high schools and it doesn’t take long to encounter remarkable students. Bright, compassionate young people with a broad range of gifts, driven to impact [...]

A random fistful of straws handed out at a drive-thru A straw placed in every drink and water glass at a restaurant Extra straws added to the carryout bag ‘just in case’ All are gestures [...]

You work hard all year. You look forward to your week at the beach. If you’re lucky, maybe two. You save for it. You spend countless hours planning your trip, deciding what activities you’ll do. [...]

On your darkest day, the tight-knit and highly trained crew of Dare MedFlight takes to the sky to save lives – at times, flying three or four times a day.

I’ve always thought there were two kinds of people when it came to the pet world. There were cat people, like my sister, Liz, whom I kind-of-affectionately call “the crazy cat lady.” She actually [...]

When Scott Lawlor first walked into a yoga studio three years ago, he was on three different medications to control his high blood pressure. Today, as he sits on the mat at The Well yoga co-op in [...]

Pam Hay’s destiny was determined at the tender age of 6 years old. In the hospital, scheduled to undergo a tonsillectomy, the nurses explained the procedure to her. Pam noticed there were [...]

We see them up on the lifeguard stands, making water advisories and responding to emergencies. Occasionally we even talk to them to inquire about ocean conditions. But most of us don’t know what [...]

Several years ago, I harbored some pretty dark fantasies regarding my young son’s cell phone. His text messaging was out of control. I considered placing his phone in the path of a stampeding [...]

As a 22-year-old, ignorance was bliss when I landed a job at a modest, little 3,000-watt radio station carved into the swamp on the south end of Roanoke Island.  WOBR-FM in Wanchese, also [...]

“No one prepares you for this – being a caregiver,” says Noel Preston. Preston’s wife, Susan, was diagnosed with dementia in 2011 and is now undergoing treatment at John Hopkins Medical [...]

This is the seventeenth winter I’ve spent on the Outer Banks. I recall that first one being particularly brutal as my psyche struggled to adjust to life on what, at the time, felt like the [...]

The Outer Banks has more children experiencing the joy of swimming now than ever before with the creation of the first local YMCA swim team this fall. The Tidal Waves already have approximately [...]

There are two things that rank high on my list of things I dread about the holidays. One is dragging that bare, parched tree out of the house as it leaves a massive amount of pine needles in its [...]

You’ve managed to dress your child in an adorable Christmas outfit, complete with Mary Janes and a Pinterest-inspired hairdo, and maybe even some snappy suspenders or a vest and a bowtie for your [...]

The cold December wind whips up against houses, the chilling rain patters on rooftops at 5 a.m., and most of the Outer Banks is still warm and snug under blankets. But that’s not the case for a [...]

The bell-towered, red brick school building in Currituck has been misunderstood since it opened its doors as J.P. Knapp Early College High School in 2008. Many county residents – even those with [...]

The holiday season is one of the best times of the year, but with parties to plan, family to entertain, and decorations to hang, it can also be one of the most stressful. Do yourself a favor and [...]

More than a decade ago, Southern Shores residents Helen Ford and Ed Hazlett began discussing ways they could help the Outer Banks community. Inspired by an after-school program they read about in [...]

If you’re one of those Martha Stewart types who’ve spent the last year carefully and creatively hand making gifts for each person on your holiday list, from your children down to the UPS delivery [...]

You can talk to 100 runners, and get 100 different reasons as to why they run and why they set goals and challenges for themselves. But for new-to-Manteo resident Evan Fiedler, he took the word [...]

The barely discernible path veers off the dirt road in Nags Head Woods, up along a high ridge. Felled trees and heavy underbrush often block the trail, forcing hikers to search for signs of foot [...]