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Outer Banks Blue Named Greenest Outer Banks Rental Company

I just finished up a couple of advertisements for Outer Banks Blue Realty, located in Kitty Hawk NC. They are now the "Greenest Outer Banks Rental Company" and have been working very hard to eliminate the unnecessary and revamp the way business on the Outer Banks operates in conjunction with the

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Wink's Grocery Store in Kitty Hawk is Closed

Things in Kitty Hawk are just not the same this week as the new year brought to us the loss of a trusted friend and the closing the doors of our unofficial town hall. Wink's grocery store in Kitty Hawk is closed. The familiar yellow happy face sign on the front of the store that had the right eye

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Vacation Rentals Looking Good in Recent Study

The current gloomy economic environment is evidently affecting consumers' interest in certain types of lodging accommodations, as revealed in the just-released Ypartnership/Yankelovich 2009 National Travel MONITOR. All of the information seems to point favorably to vacaton rental homes as a lodging

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Dr. Beach picks OBX in his top 10 beaches AGAIN

Dr. Beach (aka Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman) has evaluated all major public recreational beaches in the U.S. America and has recently released his his annual top 10 Beaches in the U.S. list for the 19th time.On his website (http://www.drbeach.org/) Dr. Beach says beaches are the number one recreational...

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The Growth of the Phrase

This week on "Everything Outer Banks" on Memory Monday, I am remembering the growth of this area and I am struck by the term "Outer Banks." As a 46 year resident of the area I remember the day when I would tell people that I was from "Nags Head" because I didn't have to explain where Kitty Hawk was

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The Outer Banks: A Value Laden Beach Vacation

Recently the North American Press Syndicate provided the Outer Banks some nice publicity in distributing an article about value laden vacations. The subject location of the article you ask? The Outer Banks!The article reads in part...Travelers are increasingly finding that vacations -- even beach

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Traveling with the Stars: Tiki Barber

In a recent USA Today Travel Section article former NFL All-Pro Running Back Tiki Barber identified Pine Island in Corolla on the Outer Banks to be his favorite vacation spot. Barber, who played for 10 years for the New York Giants, and currently works for NBC Television as a correspondent for the

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