Latest Articles
Browse Categories

Subscribe for Daily Updates

Invalid email address

Subscribe for Daily Updates

Invalid email address

Sound Strategy: Understanding the Outer Banks’ past can illuminate the present, future

June 1st, 2023  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Understanding the Outer Banks’ past can illuminate the present, future

Entrepreneur is a French word, meaning to build something from nothing.  Looking at photographs of our region from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s it’s clear that the greater Outer Banks has seen a remarkable boom in entrepreneurship over the past few decades.  The visionaries and barnstormers of the 80’s and 90’s were able to do…Read More from Sound Strategy: Understanding the Outer Banks’ past can illuminate the present, future

Builders and Shapers: Food Bank of the Albemarle

May 30th, 2023  · Builders and Shapers  · Top Stories
Builders and Shapers: Food Bank of the Albemarle

The Greater Outer Banks has one of the highest percentages in North Carolina of people who deal every day with food insecurity. 41,850 residents, 16 percent of our population, lives with hunger. Nearly one-in-four of our children. For the last four decades, the Food Bank of the Albemarle has been fighting food insecurity in northeast…Read More from Builders and Shapers: Food Bank of the Albemarle

VIDEO: New book by Clark Twiddy features the visionaries that built the Outer Banks

May 30th, 2023  · Multimedia  · OBX Life  · Top Stories
VIDEO: New book by Clark Twiddy features the visionaries that built the Outer Banks

“Outer Banks Visionaries: Building North Carolina’s Oceanfront“, by Clark Twiddy, is a captivating new book that tells the story of the dreamers, innovators and risk-takers who transformed the Outer Banks from a remote chain of barrier islands to one of America’s most popular vacation destinations. Twiddy, a life-long resident of the Outer Banks, President of…Read More from VIDEO: New book by Clark Twiddy features the visionaries that built the Outer Banks

Sound Strategy: Long-term success of Greater Outer Banks economy is chess, not checkers

May 25th, 2023  · Commentary  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Long-term success of Greater Outer Banks economy is chess, not checkers

Listening across our region to voices and thinking about what kind of future we are designing in our efforts, it’s clear that eastern North Carolina is a unique place with both unique opportunities and unique challenges unlike any other part of the state. What’s striking in many of these hopes is the amount of future…Read More from Sound Strategy: Long-term success of Greater Outer Banks economy is chess, not checkers

Study of long-term management of Outer Banks visitor economy lays out roadmap for next decade

May 24th, 2023  · Top Stories  · Visitor Economy
Study of long-term management of Outer Banks visitor economy lays out roadmap for next decade

Following a nine-month-long process, that included public town hall meetings, a poll of residents, focus groups, a task force composed of representatives from a variety of local agencies and the visitor economy industry, the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau has released the findings of a study that lays out a road map for the future of…Read More from Study of long-term management of Outer Banks visitor economy lays out roadmap for next decade

Builders and Shapers: Dare Arts

May 23rd, 2023  · Builders and Shapers  · Top Stories
Builders and Shapers: Dare Arts

For almost a half-century, one organization has been finding innovative ways to connect residents and visitors with the creative side of the Greater Outer Banks. Whether it’s clay, paint or metal. Or capturing images on glossies and digital mediums. And those whose art is presented in words, music or dance. For this edition of our…Read More from Builders and Shapers: Dare Arts

Sound Strategy: “Are you planning to come back?” is best measure of OBX visitor economy’s future

May 18th, 2023  · Commentary  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: “Are you planning to come back?” is best measure of OBX visitor economy’s future

“In the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long-term, it’s a weighing machine.” – Benjamin Graham With the Memorial Day holiday weekend just around the corner, our regional visitor economy swings into full speed for what will once again be a busy summer. In the short-term, our commerce engines continue to…Read More from Sound Strategy: “Are you planning to come back?” is best measure of OBX visitor economy’s future

Podcast: Christopher Chung, leader of N.C.’s economic development efforts

May 18th, 2023  · Multimedia  · Top Stories
Podcast: Christopher Chung, leader of N.C.’s economic development efforts

The Outer Banks Community Foundation held its semi-annual Advisors Breakfast Briefing series, sponsored by Southern Bank, on May 17 at the Ramada Plaza Oceanfront in Kill Devil Hills. Attendees heard from Christopher Chung, CEO of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, about their ongoing efforts to bring new businesses to North Carolina, support and…Read More from Podcast: Christopher Chung, leader of N.C.’s economic development efforts

Builders and Shapers: First Flight Foundation

May 16th, 2023  · Builders and Shapers  · Top Stories
Builders and Shapers: First Flight Foundation

If there is one date that is associated with the Outer Banks more than any other, it has to be December 17, 1903. The day a pair of bicycle-building brothers from southwest Ohio launched humankind into the air at Big Kill Devil Hill. Nearly 120 years later, the hallowed grounds of Wright Brothers National Memorial…Read More from Builders and Shapers: First Flight Foundation

Outer Banks ranks as top place for small business owners in North Carolina

May 15th, 2023  · BIZ  · Top Stories
Outer Banks ranks as top place for small business owners in North Carolina

The Outer Banks has ranked as the top place for small business owners to operate in North Carolina, while the top five counties in the state are all located in popular visitor destination. Dare County ranked number one overall in the SmartAsset Small Business Index and had the highest percentage of income from small businesses…Read More from Outer Banks ranks as top place for small business owners in North Carolina

Image
Sound Strategy Top Stories June 1st, 2023

Sound Strategy: Understanding the Outer Banks’ past can illuminate the present, future

Entrepreneur is a French word, meaning to build something from nothing.  Looking at photographs of our region from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s it’s clear that the greater Outer Banks has seen a remarkable boom in entrepreneurship over the past few decades.  The visionaries and barnstormers of the 80’s and 90’s were able to do…Read More from Sound Strategy: Understanding the Outer Banks’ past can illuminate the present, future

Image

Builders and Shapers: Food Bank of the Albemarle

The Greater Outer Banks has one of the highest percentages in North Carolina of people who deal every day with food insecurity. 41,850 residents, 16 percent of our population, lives with hunger. Nearly one-in-four of our children. For the last four decades, the Food Bank of the Albemarle has been fighting food insecurity in northeast…Read More from Builders and Shapers: Food Bank of the Albemarle

Image

VIDEO: New book by Clark Twiddy features the visionaries that built the Outer Banks

“Outer Banks Visionaries: Building North Carolina’s Oceanfront“, by Clark Twiddy, is a captivating new book that tells the story of the dreamers, innovators and risk-takers who transformed the Outer Banks from a remote chain of barrier islands to one of America’s most popular vacation destinations. Twiddy, a life-long resident of the Outer Banks, President of…Read More from VIDEO: New book by Clark Twiddy features the visionaries that built the Outer Banks

Image

Sound Strategy: Long-term success of Greater Outer Banks economy is chess, not checkers

Listening across our region to voices and thinking about what kind of future we are designing in our efforts, it’s clear that eastern North Carolina is a unique place with both unique opportunities and unique challenges unlike any other part of the state. What’s striking in many of these hopes is the amount of future…Read More from Sound Strategy: Long-term success of Greater Outer Banks economy is chess, not checkers

Image
Top Stories Visitor Economy May 24th, 2023

Study of long-term management of Outer Banks visitor economy lays out roadmap for next decade

Following a nine-month-long process, that included public town hall meetings, a poll of residents, focus groups, a task force composed of representatives from a variety of local agencies and the visitor economy industry, the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau has released the findings of a study that lays out a road map for the future of…Read More from Study of long-term management of Outer Banks visitor economy lays out roadmap for next decade

Image

Sound Strategy: “Are you planning to come back?” is best measure of OBX visitor economy’s future

“In the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long-term, it’s a weighing machine.” – Benjamin Graham With the Memorial Day holiday weekend just around the corner, our regional visitor economy swings into full speed for what will once again be a busy summer. In the short-term, our commerce engines continue to…Read More from Sound Strategy: “Are you planning to come back?” is best measure of OBX visitor economy’s future

Image
Multimedia Top Stories May 18th, 2023

Podcast: Christopher Chung, leader of N.C.’s economic development efforts

The Outer Banks Community Foundation held its semi-annual Advisors Breakfast Briefing series, sponsored by Southern Bank, on May 17 at the Ramada Plaza Oceanfront in Kill Devil Hills. Attendees heard from Christopher Chung, CEO of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, about their ongoing efforts to bring new businesses to North Carolina, support and…Read More from Podcast: Christopher Chung, leader of N.C.’s economic development efforts

Image
BIZ Top Stories May 15th, 2023

Outer Banks ranks as top place for small business owners in North Carolina

The Outer Banks has ranked as the top place for small business owners to operate in North Carolina, while the top five counties in the state are all located in popular visitor destination. Dare County ranked number one overall in the SmartAsset Small Business Index and had the highest percentage of income from small businesses…Read More from Outer Banks ranks as top place for small business owners in North Carolina