People & Community

Except for the award winning surf films, Logan Marshall is a pretty normal teenager. A senior at Manteo High School, he’s slim, nicely groomed and is very articulate. His grades? “Pretty good,” [...]

You go to work each day, head down, to do the best job you possibly can.  There are deadlines to hit, paperwork to get through, and payroll to meet.  At the end of that day, you look [...]

For Lisa Howell, November’s marathon week on the Outer Banks is as much a part of her seasonal calendar as Thanksgiving and Christmas. Howell, a 59-year-old Raleigh resident, has competed or [...]

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 [...]

As the 300th anniversary of Blackbeard’s death nears, his tale still lives on among the residents and visitors of Ocracoke Island.

When Richard Etheridge was appointed keeper of the Pea Island Life-Saving Station on January 24, 1880, he was the first black man to lead a crew of surfmen in the U.S. Lifesaving Service.

Lead singer Joshua Holland takes his position behind the microphone in a small makeshift music studio in Kitty Hawk. Cueing his fellow band members, he gives a slight nod and the room suddenly [...]

My Outer Banks Home decided to ask a few local residents about their favorite beach accesses. What we found didn’t surprise us. Asking locals about their favorite spots to park their beach chairs [...]

Three Dog Ink Media celebrates its 25th anniversary this year as a full service design agency and publishing company, but the Nags Head agency wasn’t always what it is today. In fact, it had [...]

Have you ever had to choose between paying your water bill or buying medication for yourself or a family member? Or wondered how you could afford transportation to receive treatments for a [...]

I’m sitting with Lorelei at Morning View Coffee, sipping a cappuccino and enjoying a muffin. Well, I’m sitting…Lorelei is looking at me with longing eyes waiting patiently for me to share [...]

A destination wedding on the Outer Banks allows couples to celebrate their own personal style, ease family stress, and take a vacation all at the same time.

As the rain intensifies, the group of 15 huddles closer together under the shelter. Guests gaze at the giant gleaming tanks as they learn about the Outer Banks Brewing Station. They’re hanging on [...]

Outer Banks commercial fisherman, Dewey Hemilright has visited classrooms in 10 states as a volunteer with Provider Pals, a non-profit educational outreach program that connects grade school [...]

In the shadow of the Wright Brothers National Memorial, the actual site where man first took flight, an object comes into view against a Carolina Blue sky and floats gently toward its intended [...]

The Little Free Library movement has been sweeping the globe one book at a time and our barrier islands are no exception. To the delight of book lovers, charming little libraries can now be found [...]

As the 5- and 6-year-olds transitioned from offense to defense,  Charlotte Midgett watched the opposing player stop dribbling and practically hand the basketball back to her daughter – [...]

A few of our year-round residents have chimed in on where they would love to travel this winter, should they be able to go anywhere in the world. From charming courtyards in tucked-away Brazilian [...]

There are some things that are so integral to a place that they are as much a part of the definition of home as where we lay our heads at night.   Like the scuppernong grapes that are now [...]

Wickershams was under the weather.  Widespread tissue damage. A little weak. Not eating. Listless. A shell of himself, you might say… Luckily, this 8.8-pound green sea turtle found [...]

Though each Outer Banks local is a true island dweller — connected to the North Carolina mainland by a few fleeting bridges — we aren’t necessarily “stranded.” Sure, we all have to travel [...]

The bright red letters, darting arrows and catchy slogan dot countless beach access points along the Outer Banks. Yet for all the warnings about rip currents and how to “Break the Grip of the [...]

With an extensive beach nourishment project underway this summer, what will that mean for beachcombing and the probability of discovering shells, sea glass and other finds?

As I was driving home last week from Manteo, I encountered a turtle trying to cross the two-lane road I was on. A Midwesterner, I am a recent transplant to these glorious islands of the Outer [...]

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 [...]

Surfing is once again a trendy thing that even the city kids want to learn. But it’s been a way of life on the Outer Banks for many decades, and the Eastern Surfing Association (ESA) has been a [...]

Nancy Bellantine, owner of Pathways to Well-Being, an Outer Banks organization that advocates for foreign student workers, estimates there will be 1,600 foreign students working on the Outer [...]

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, [...]

Today isn’t just Friday… it’s International Pay-It-Forward Day! Last year, nearly 80 countries participated in the holiday, with U.S. participation happening in 48 cities in 42 states. Today’s [...]