People & Community

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 [...]

“Pay it Forward”…”Random Acts of Kindness” Recently, those phrases are familiar buzzwords. Hollywood has touted paying it forward with A-list actors Helen Hunt and [...]

Evelyn Rollason slips on her colorful chicken boots and heads to the henhouse with a wire basket and a container full of salad scraps tucked under her arm. Her babies, as she likes to call them, [...]

Just minutes from the busy beach towns of the Outer Banks lies a wilderness that is cherished among locals and revered by visitors. This is Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve, where the only [...]

Beekeepers come from all walks of life. They are coaches, teachers, artists. It doesn’t really matter what their profession is – the bees call to them, drawing them into their sweet world in the [...]

A major beach nourishment project that will pump about four million cubic yards of sand onto the beaches of the northern Outer Banks will get underway this spring. The project encompasses [...]

One of the area’s most notable golfers wants you to know that he’s the second-fastest kid at his school and that he has received only one grade below an A on his report cards in the past year and [...]

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 [...]

I will show you my faith by my works. John 2:18 Most people see retirement on the Outer Banks as an opportunity to brush up on their golf skills or spend leisurely days on the beach reading [...]

Ghost tours, haunted houses, and newer attractions like PsychoPath flourish in an area rich with history — as if thousands of boats and an entire colony disappearing wasn’t enough!

Blackbeard’s Crew is a nonprofit dedicated to historical preservation, a relatively dry description that could apply to many organizations. However, most other nonprofits dedicated to historical [...]

Stepping out onto the pier, I feel the worn and weathered planks beneath my feet give just a little. The smell of salt air mixed with the briny scent of bait fill my senses and my eyes soak in a [...]

Kim and Roger Meacham weren’t looking to change the lives of their family, friends, and neighbors on Ocracoke – they were just looking for a way to help their son. A Company Is Born  Four [...]

Local icon, Bill Harris, reflects on his collection of memories and other research that adds to a multigenerational story about Kitty Hawk Village – an overarching narrative that includes the way [...]

Doors of Dare County A pink door might signify that a home’s occupants are hopelessly romantic, while a blue door tells the world that you value peace and truth. No paint on the door? Then [...]

Most visitors to the Outer Banks think of it as “my beach vacation.” Most residents the Outer Banks think of it as “my maritime community.” And everyone thinks of Cape Hatteras as the yardstick [...]

If you blink you might miss it: Driving through Colington Island, which lies just west of Kill Devil Hills, an unobtrusive, time-weathered sign marks the gravel road that leads to Endurance [...]

When Erin Walters was a toddler, she would stand on the back of the sofa in her living room and look across the highway at Dowdy’s Amusement Park. “I remember she would just keep saying ‘wheel, [...]

It takes a special kind of person to live on the Outer Banks year-round. To make it work here you have to be resourceful, able to roll with the punches, not afraid of a little wind every once in [...]

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 [...]

What will it be this time… the bypass or the beach road? There are not many routes to pick from. And, there are only so many trips you can take up and down the beach before you calculate that [...]

From Lawnmowers to Airplanes Wanchese resident Ellinor Nick started working in a lawn mower shop in Dayton, Ohio when she was nine years old. There she would cut grass and learn how to fix a [...]

White’s gas station at the foot of the Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge in Manns Harbor may look like your run-of-the-mill pit stop. It has all the makings: gas, snacks, drinks, and even some [...]

It was 1950, post-war and pre-tourism on the Outer Banks. That was the year Dale Wescott was born. It was also the year her father built the Cavalier by the Sea Motel. And 65 years later, both [...]

A glimpse at just a few of the best tailgate parties hosted by Outer Banks residents! Walking around a tailgate party is that chance to go back. The sheer fun of being on a campus without the [...]

Last summer, David Frasier and his family were vacationing at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore when Frasier decided to partake in a common beach activity: digging in the sand. He was [...]

Arguably the worst place to be on a Saturday or Sunday in the summer is the US 158/NC 12 intersection in Kitty Hawk where drivers turn toward Duck and Corolla. Not only is the traffic verging on [...]

Purple Martin’s of the Outer Banks Come late June, the skies at sunset around the William B. Umstead bridge begin to transform into a moving landscape dotted with about 100,000 of North [...]