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 [...]

Aging in Place

When Don Bowers’ 82-year-old mother fell and broke her leg for the second time in two years, Bowers realized that it was time to retrofit her Buxton house so she could stay at her home and still [...]