The statistics are staggering. One out of every eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer. In fact, breast cancer is the second most leading cause of cancer death [...]
Dave FairbankDave Fairbank is a freelance writer living in Kill Devil Hills. Dave was a sports writer for 30 years at the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press prior to relocating the the Outer Banks.
On your darkest day, the tight-knit and highly trained crew of Dare MedFlight takes to the sky to save lives – at times, flying three or four times a day.
When Scott Lawlor first walked into a yoga studio three years ago, he was on three different medications to control his high blood pressure. Today, as he sits on the mat at The Well yoga co-op in [...]
Pam Hay’s destiny was determined at the tender age of 6 years old. In the hospital, scheduled to undergo a tonsillectomy, the nurses explained the procedure to her. Pam noticed there were [...]
“No one prepares you for this – being a caregiver,” says Noel Preston. Preston’s wife, Susan, was diagnosed with dementia in 2011 and is now undergoing treatment at John Hopkins Medical [...]
The Outer Banks has more children experiencing the joy of swimming now than ever before with the creation of the first local YMCA swim team this fall. The Tidal Waves already have approximately [...]
There are two things that rank high on my list of things I dread about the holidays. One is dragging that bare, parched tree out of the house as it leaves a massive amount of pine needles in its [...]
The cold December wind whips up against houses, the chilling rain patters on rooftops at 5 a.m., and most of the Outer Banks is still warm and snug under blankets. But that’s not the case for a [...]
