By Cathy Baldwin –   Choosing Jay Bowman as a feature for our Fall issue was a no-brainer. He’s a real, honest-to-goodness renaissance man. His three professions are totally and completely unrelated, but wildly...

By Corinne Saunders –    The excitement of a day on the water, full of unknowns, is one of the best things about the job, charter captains say. Some days you see whales, sea...

By Jesse Fernandez –  After their three-year-old son Isaiah was diagnosed with autism, Californian longboard champion Israel Paskowitz discovered that having his son on his surfboard and riding waves together had an extremely calming...

By Corinne Saunders –  Zen Pops, inspired by Mexican paletas, a traditional fruit pop, opened its doors April 12 in the Seagate North Shopping Center, milepost 5.5. Owner Crystal Swain had actually been selling...

By Corinne Saunders –  “It was a tough time, but it’s amazing how fast stuff got done,” says Manteo Mayor Jamie Daniels of the post-Hurricane Irene clean-up in Manteo. “All my life, as a...

By Kip Tabb –  Immersed in the day to day affairs of our lives, we give little thought to the passage of events around us. Then, you sit around an office and talk about...

By Phyllis Cole –    You can’t miss it. You drive on the bypass and on the west side of the road, it slowly appears, rising above the tree line, a huge mound of...