By Coastal Review Writing in his just-completed Frank Stick biography published here, author Gilbert M. Gaul wrote of the genesis of the modern tourist industry on the Outer Banks. “Like Stick and others, (Congressman Lindsay) Warren saw the future of the isolated barrier islands as tied to tourism,” Gaul noted. Speakers at a tourism summit sponsored […]
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From Outer Banks Voice With many Outer Banks homeowners confronting a significant increase in their insurance premiums this year, the Outer Banks Association of Realtors (OBAR) hosted a meeting on property insurance on Thursday night, Nov. 2 at the Dare County Board of Commissioners meeting room on Roanoke Island to help provide some answers. Soaring […]
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By The Outer Banks Voice “Life is tough for a lot of people,” said Sheila Davies, Dare County Director of Health and Human Services (DHHS), explaining why Sound Minds, a new mental health collaborative program between Dare County Health and Human Services, Interfaith Community Outreach and the Outer Banks Relief Foundation is so important. “You’ve got […]
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From OuterBanksVoice.com The Threatened Oceanfront Structures Interagency Work Group held its third and final meeting as a webinar on Thursday, Oct. 12. The meeting focused on the role government agencies and regulations play when structures on the oceanfront are threatened by a retreating shoreline that often puts a building in the surf zone. For Dare […]
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By Kip Tabb and Joy Crist. This is a joint reporting project of the Outer Banks Voice and Island Free Press. This article is Part Two in a series of stories about the Kinnakeet Church. To read Part One, click here. For the past few weeks, the potential sale of one of Avon Village’s two churches […]
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