Outer Banks Earth Day 2014
By Kip Tabb – If there is a better place anywhere to celebrate Earth Day than the Outer Banks, I can’t imagine where it would be. There is a remarkable sense of witness...
Category: Opinion
The Outer Banks Garden
By Kip Tabb – I spent the morning thanking Mother Nature for the blessing of spring and cursing the weeds that infest my garden. I suppose I should take it all in stride, accept...
Wild Horse Sense
By Kip Tabb – All Photos courtesy Corolla Wild Horse Fund At one time, almost every barrier island from Virginia and south had a herd of wild horses that had escaped from ships of...
Outer Banks Snow Daze
By Kip Tabb – Ok! I admit it . . . I’m over the snow. This is a very difficult admission for a me to make. I grew up in New Jersey, once upon...
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...
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...
B.S. in Parenting – Mid Term Reviews
By Lindsey Dianna – (The following “performance reviews” are intended for straight-up humor and not intended as some sort of template. Did I need to tell you that? In a “this bag is not...
North Beach Sun Holiday Wish for our Readers
By Kip Tabb – Our publisher, Cathy Baldwin, was in K Mart the other night and she overheard how incredulous and thrilled a customer was when they found someone–anonymously–had paid off their layaway. My...
Failing our Children-Opinion on the State of North Carolina Education
Opinion by Kip Tabb – Last week’s education forum hosted by the Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce was a remarkable example of what area educators are able to do with steadily diminishing resources. Through...
Lies . . . and the Southern Environmental Law Center
Editorial by Kip Tabb – North Carolina Secretary of Transportation Tony Tata comes across—at least in public—as a fairly patient person. Competent, knowledgeable and certainly professional—especially in dealing with the public and the press,...
