Tagged: Jennette’s Pier

Team Clever Beaches, running the 5-mile race. Left to Right: Holly Schnader, Caitlin Anderson, Natalie Dutt.

Storm the Beach Family Fun

Storm the Beach is a fun race. A fun three races actually—a 5-mile, 3-mile and a one mile fun run. Taking place on the beach at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, the setting is...

Growth of renewable energy resources 1950-2015. The yellow is solar energy. Source, NCSEA.

NC Leads in Alternate Energy

With a brisk north wind turning the wind turbines that help power Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, the Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce hosted an Energy Forum Luncheon on Thursday. Sponsored by SAGA Construction...

Mother Nature Forces OBX Cancellations

We’re a pretty hardy bunch here on the Outer Banks and after living here for awhile weather just becomes another part of everyday life. For the most part, there’s not much to complain about—summers...

Fred Brason of Project Lazarus speaking at Jennette's Pier.

Project Lazarus in Dare County

There is not one reason for addiction; not one reason for a drug overdose; there is not one personality type, not one economic class, not one race that is immune to the ravages of...

Going up for air at the 2015 WRV Pro World Surf Competition at Jennette's Pier.

WRV Pro Brings World to OBX

  The WRV Pro World Surf Competition at Jennette’s Pier was a great show on the water even if conditions weren’t ideal—considerably less than ideal, actually. It was the north to northeast winds that...

And they're off! Competitors begin running the 2015 Storm the Beach. Photo, Kip Tabb

Storm the Beach=Family Fun

A mile or so into Storm the Beach, as Team Phillips of Lewes, Delaware, scrambled over another obstacle, Mom (Karen) Phillips commented, “It’s a good family activity.” Seeing her later in the race, she...

Coming over the Moor Shore Road bridge in Kitty Hawk with race winner Will Christian in the lead.

OBX Spring Events Come Alive

With the Flying Pirate Half Marathon Weekend this past Saturday and Sunday and the 13th Annual Outer Banks Bike Week this week the Outer Banks has a bit of the summer time feel to...

OBX VIP Fishing Tournament Largest in World

By Kip Tabb –  The 32nd Lion’s VIP (Visually Impaired Persons) Fishing Tournament got in two out of three days of spectacular weather last week. The tournament, by all account the largest in the world,...