Generations of students have memorialized their high school years with parting gifts, leaving a legacy of everything from ill-conceived pranks...
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Life & Wellness
Helping Cancer Patients Keep Their Hair
The statistics are staggering. One out of every eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer....
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They Practically Sell Themselves
Katherine McGlade is a farmer. An oyster farmer. But there isn’t all that much difference between how she raises oysters...
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The North Carolina Oyster Wars
The so-called Oyster Wars of the 1880s and 1890s in the Pamlico Sound off of Ocracoke were a brief, intense...
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Pea Island Cookhouse Museum: The United States Life-Saving Service Station
Probably the two best known U.S. Life-Saving Service (USLSS) Stations on the North Carolina coast are Chicamacomico and Pea Island;...
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Hook, Line, & Science
Before falling for any more fish stories, North Carolina anglers are instead being encouraged to fall hook, line and sinker...
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New Year, New Words
Here are a few of our favorite words to take hold of this year. Alongside new intellectual terms, you will...
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Crushed Glass, Recycling, and the Global Market
Dare County crushes much of its glass. In many places crushed glass has become part of a vibrant market for...
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A Season of Giving: Beach Food Pantry Fights Hunger In Dare County
Executive Director Elisabeth Silverthorne As the holidays draw closer, the local nonprofit Beach Food Pantry prepares for its busiest season....
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Goodbye Winks
Some things are a constant. The sun, even on cloudy days, is always there. At night, the moon is going...
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The Reinvention of the Library
Let’s start by dispelling the notion that public libraries are about dusty books and shushing, cardigan-clad librarians. Fact is, the...
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Re-Discovering The Outer Banks
Growing up we didn’t have a lot of money. My dad worked in a factory – a blue collar job...
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History Lives On: Jarvisburg Colored School & Museum
Jarvisburg Colored School prior to restoration. History is all around us on the Outer Banks. It begins with Sir Walter...
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Old but Not Forgotten: Jarvisburg’s C.A. Wright Store
Though the doors of the C.A. Wright Store closed decades ago, memories of its heydays are very much alive and...
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Outer Banks Memories Never Fade
Anyone who has spent time on the Outer Banks knows the magical hold it can have on you. If you’ve...
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Wanchese Program Offers Hope In Recovery
Humility and service to one’s fellow man takes many forms. For Jerron Feaster, it arrived as yard work and burnt...
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Get Your Public beach access information at OBX Beach Access
When you are on vacation, you want to know all the best beach spots for spending those long, blissful days...
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A Diverse Sampling Of Talents: Local Students Step Out And Succeed
Stroll the hallways of Dare County’s three high schools and it doesn’t take long to encounter remarkable students. Bright, compassionate...
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Pick A Straw…But Not Just ANY Straw
Stillshot from a video gone viral of a turtle in Costa Rica getting a plastic straw extracted from its nostril....
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Is the Fear of Falling Getting you Down?
Guest Blog by Marci Lait, Md., Blue Water Ear Nose & Throat/ A FYZICAL® Dizziness Fall Prevention Center Falling is...
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On Vacation? Time To Volunteer!
Mike Waters, volunteer group organizer from Appalachian State University, cheerfully opts for the heavy hauling of mulch through Nags Head...
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Dare MedFlight: Saving Lives in the Air
On your darkest day, the tight-knit and highly trained crew of Dare MedFlight takes to the sky to save lives...
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A Winter Kitten
I’ve always thought there were two kinds of people when it came to the pet world. There were cat people,...
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Integrative Medicine: Just What The Doctor Ordered
When Scott Lawlor first walked into a yoga studio three years ago, he was on three different medications to control...
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Virtual Cookie Exchange- OBX Edition
Christmas is a time for sharing and caring, what better way than to care than to share your favorite cookie...
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Local Nurse Provides Comfort During The End Of Life Journey
Pam Hay’s destiny was determined at the tender age of 6 years old. In the hospital, scheduled to undergo a...
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