Dare County Occupancy Continues to Grow
By Kip Tabb Aided by a 45% surge in December, Dare County occupancy revenues improved for the fourth year in a row. The yearend increase of 3% represents an additional $15 million in income...
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My Life Pile: A Book Review
By Kip Tabb – Along with being an amazing bird carver, expert hunting guide and occasional journalist, Vic Berg is now a published author. My Life Pile, published by Schiffer Publishing, is a visually...
Tolls for Local Ferries Back on the Table
The subject of tolls for the local ferry routes is back on the table. The Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce continues to monitor the issue of tolls for the local ferry routes and offers...
Erring on the Side of Caution
Opinion by Kip Tabb – lt’s a pretty common complaint on the Outer Banks that emergency officials order evacuations too early and sometimes unnecessarily when a hurricane appears to be bearing down on the...
Want Happy Feet? Try Shagging!
By Glen Baldwin- Guess what didn’t shut down for the winter? The Outer Banks Shag Club! Celebrating those original shag dancers who gathered back in the 1950s at beach parties in Myrtle Beach,...
A Great Outer Banks Weekend on Tap
By Kip Tabb There’s so much happening this weekend it’s hard to imagine that it’s the middle of the winter on the Outer Banks. Right after I came to the Outer Banks 20 years...
Old Man Winter Barrels into the Outer Banks
By Kip Tabb – It’s going to get cold on the Outer Banks . . . not cold like they’re experiencing up in New Jersey where I grew up where the temps are going...
2014 Outer Banks Wedding Expo—Great Food and a Great Time
By Kip Tabb – Going to the Outer Bands Wedding Association Outer Banks Wedding Expo is fun—there’s just no other way to describe it. Outer Banks event vendors and businesses have done an extraordinary...
An Expo Expose: Here Come the Brides
By Cathy Baldwin Why the Outer Banks Wedding Industry is Bigger than You Think In the darkest, coldest month of the year on the Outer Banks, one industry bustles with life, growth and L-O-V-E—the...
Outer Banks Event Recap
By Kip Tabb Here it is, Martin Luther King Weekend coming up, the kids have a halfday of school on Friday and then are out through Tuesday of next week. The big news for...
