The Unlikeliest Hero
By Amanda McDanel – Tuesdays and Fridays are highly anticipated days at our house. Around 8:30 a.m. we have a special visitor who rolls in to delighted squeals and shrieks that he doesn’t get...
Category: Community
Lifting People Up—The Outer Banks Relief Foundation
By Kip Tabb – The Outer Banks is filled with stories of families or individuals in need who have turned to friends, neighbors and the community for help and found a vast pool of...
A Beautifully Balanced Life
By Donna Baum – Staying in balance is life-affirming. “It’s like breathing—you have to inhale and exhale,” Necla (pronounced: Naysh-La) Rader says. “You can’t just take in all the time; you have to give...
Feeding Growing Minds—Food for Thought
By Kip Tabb – Photos by Andrea Goblet- Although we are a remarkably generous community, the belief on the Outer Banks is that we take care of our own. If there is a need...
Giving Back
By Cathy Baldwin – A few years ago my dear friend Anne found a lump on her two-year-old son Cooper’s shoulder. It was a worst-case scenario; the doctors told her that her baby boy...
There’s a Chill in the Air
By Phyllis Cole/Photo by Lori Douglas Fall weather always elicits a certain chill, and not just from the weather. The romantic coastline of the Outer Banks lends itself well to ghost stories. The windswept...
Planting the Seeds of Community
By Kip Tabb – Planting the Seeds of Community By Kip Tabb The native plants of the Outer Banks are part of a delicate dance of nature that creates the beauty that surrounds us....
Discovering the Outer Banks on Columbus Day Weekend
By Kip Tabb – Columbus Day Weekend has come and gone on the Outer Banks, and the 2012 version wasn’t like any other that I have experienced in the almost 20 years I have...
10th Annual Charity Classic Tennis Tournament a Resounding Success
By Kip Tabb – We often lose sight of how extraordinary the Outer Banks community is; we take for granted many of the things other communities rarely experience. And so it is with how...
Meet the Mayor…You Can Call Her Sheila
By Corinne Saunders – Sheila Foster Davies met her husband when she picked him up on a bus she was driving—“a short bus,” she adds, not missing the humor—shuttling attendees to the Outer...
