OBX Seafood Fest Sunshine, Food & Fun
The Outer Banks needed that. We needed the Outer Banks Seafood Festival—the perfect weather that came with it, the fantastic music and great seafood from local restaurants. We needed all of that; we needed...
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Hurricane Matthew-Surprising Power in OBX Storm
Hurricane Matthew delivered to the Outer Banks what is in tropical storm terms a haymaker—a wild punch that seemed to catch almost everyone by surprise. By Thursday of last week we knew the weekend...
Agents of Financial Aid
OBAR Scholarship Program Helps Local Students Realize Dreams by Jose Valle When Macy Quidley applied for college earlier this year, she wasn’t sure how she would pay for it. That was, at least, until...
Frostivus a Great New OBX Christmas Tradition
Christmas on the Outer Banks has so many special events that it’s tough to keep up with all of them. There’s the big traditional events like the Outer Banks Hotline Festival of Trees; there’s...
Edward Greene Citizen of the Year
Communities invariably have living treasures in their midsts. For the Outer Banks one of those treasures is Edward Greene—owner of the Christmas Shop, philanthropist, lover of life and so much more. He was honored...
An Emotional OBCF Luncheon
The emotional climax to the annual Outer Banks Community Foundation luncheon was the presentation of a Champion Award to Sterling Webster. Sterling passed away last June, but his wife Jane came forward to accept...
Circle of Giving Gives to the SPCA
By Kip Tabb – Walking into the SPCA back on Driftwood Drive in Manteo is at once joyous and heartbreaking. Joy because there is so much love in that building—the love of the workers...
Southern Shores Flat Top Tour Brings Record Crowd
By Kip Tabb – The Saturday tour of the Southern Shores Flat Tops could not have had more spectacular weather–not a cloud in the sky, a light breeze and temperatures in the 70s. But...
Outer Banks Community Foundation Celebrates Extraordinary Year
By Kip Tabb – The Outer Banks Community Foundation (OBCF) annual meeting is as much an Outer Banks family gathering as it is a meeting to recap the year gone by. Now in its...
New Memorial Fund for David Aycock Loy To Make Charitable Grants
By Sandy Semans Ross – David Aycock Loy left this life with just one request — to be remembered. In fact, his family has remembered him every day. And now, some 25 years after...
