Nine-and-a-half hours after the Riff Tides played the first notes of the First Annual G.E.M. Carpe DM Dance Marathon on Saturday, two dancers were still on the floor. Brittany Slaughter from Team Black Pelican...
The pride the Outer Banks takes in its schools is easy to take for granted, but that pride is one of the main reasons Dare County schools and students consistently perform so well. All...
Sawyer Sanchez is 16 years old, a junior at First Flight High School. He loves fishing and surfing…and he has AML—Acute Myelocytic Leukemia. It is a condition that will require a bone marrow transplant...
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...
Combining perfect summertime evening temperatures with great music, the August 2016 First Friday in downtown Manteo may have been the best of the summer. First Fridays are always great affairs—the Dare County Arts Council...
Four firework displays, two community fairs and one parade…the goal: go to as many Outer Banks July 4th events as is possible. The method: I was hoping for the North Beach Sun would spring...
As German U-boats ravaged Allied shipping in WWII, the Battle for the Atlantic raged just off the Outer Banks coast. March of 1942 was the deadliest month of the war for Merchant Marines who...
It seems a simple formula for members of the Lost Colony to be found—pour some wonderful wine, serve some excellent food and suddenly Queen Elizabeth, Eleanor Dare and an entourage of men of...
There is pride in owning an historic home on the Outer Banks. Pride in the history of the home; pride in family memories; pride in making it a part of the community. There were...
The story of Buffalo City, once the largest community in Dare County around the turn of the 19th century, is a colorful one of a mill town and moonshiners that continues to live on.
