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Lucky Couple wins Dream Wedding Package at Outer Banks Wedding Association Wedding Expo

Lucky Couple wins Dream Wedding Package at Outer Banks Wedding Association Wedding Expo

Outer Banks, NC Feb. 25, 2013 – At the 2013 Outer Banks Wedding Association’s Wedding Weekend one lucky couple won the Dream Wedding Package, with a value of $100,000! Lauren Fenner and Timothy Clayborn, Jr. of Manassas, Virginia attended the wedding weekend in Kill Devil Hills and as a bride, Laura was able to enter [...]

Thousands in North Carolina to March for Babies This Spring

Thousands in North Carolina to March for Babies This Spring

Raleigh, NC Feb. 25, 2013 – This spring, thousands of families and business leaders will join together in the March of Dimes annual March for Babies—the nation’s oldest walk fundraiser honoring babies born healthy and those who need help to survive and thrive. Multiple events will take place across the state on from April to [...]

16th Annual Priceless Pieces Quilt Show at Roanoke Island Festival Park

16th Annual Priceless Pieces Quilt Show at Roanoke Island Festival Park

MANTEO, NC Feb. 22, 2013 – The 16th Annual Priceless Pieces Quilt Show opens March 1 with a reception from 6-8 p.m. in the Art Gallery at Roanoke Island Festival Park. Antique and new quilts will be on display through March 23. The collection is drawn from quilt makers or quilt owners attached to the [...]

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13th Annual Core Sound Decoy Festival Poster Contest

13th Annual Core Sound Decoy Festival Poster Contest

Harkers Island, NC Feb. 22, 2013 – The Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild is excited to announce the 13th Annual Core Sound Decoy Festival Contest.  The Guild encourages local artists to submit artwork, that if chosen as the winning entry, will be used on Decoy Festival posters, advertising flyers, and apparel.  The featured decoy for [...]

What Happened to the Lost Colony?

What Happened to the Lost Colony?

Raleigh, NC - What if the Lost Colony was never lost? What if the survivors left Roanoke Island and made it to Georgia? A series of engraved stones, called the Dare stones, were discovered in the 1930s and tell a tale of how the survivors traveled by land to South Carolina and then to Georgia. The [...]

2013 Outer Banks Wedding Weekend and Expo

2013 Outer Banks Wedding Weekend and Expo

Outer Banks, NC – Brides will be able to explore all of their destination wedding dreams at the Outer Banks Wedding Association’s annual Wedding Weekend on January 19-20, 2013 at First Flight Middle and High School in Kill Devil Hills, NC. The expo will run on Saturday from 11 am to 2 pm and on [...]

Outer Banks History Center to Debut New Exhibit March 1

Outer Banks History Center to Debut New Exhibit March 1

MANTEO, NC – Despite the Great Depression, the 1930s were times of great change in Dare County, N.C. The building of roads and bridges, improvements to national historic sites and the resourcefulness of the people created unparalleled opportunities for economic growth and set a new course for the future that would bring the region into national [...]

Busy Past Year for Eastern NC Red Cross; Ready to Respond in 2013

Busy Past Year for Eastern NC Red Cross; Ready to Respond in 2013

EASTERN NC, January 3, 2013 — Throughout 2012, the Eastern NC Region of the American Red Cross responded to emergencies in our community as well as over 100 disasters across the country. Home fires continue to be the most common disaster the Red Cross responds to everyday. This year, the American Red Cross of Eastern [...]

Outer Banks Wedding Association Donates State of the Art Electrical System to Dare County Schools

Outer Banks Wedding Association Donates State of the Art Electrical System to Dare County Schools

Outer Banks, NC – After years of enduring cold temperatures while camping outside to ensure a booth space with electrical outlets, Outer Banks Wedding Association vendors said goodbye to long lines and added stress. In an effort to improve the current system, as well as to make it more feasible for other companies and organizations [...]

Inauguration Day  at the Old Theater January 21,2013

Inauguration Day at the Old Theater January 21,2013

Oriental, NC – Though the Inauguration officially takes place on January 20th, the public ceremonies will take place on Monday, the 21st.   Can’t make it to the National Mall to watch?   Invitation lost in the mail?   Thanks to Keith Smith of TownDock.net, you can come to the Old Theater in Oriental to watch a live [...]