“If necessity is the mother of invention then it is the mother of innovation as well…” Kip Tabb wrote in an Outer Banks Voice story back in July. Tabb was chronicling the migration of Ami Hill’s popular Muse Originals OBX gallery from a storefront to a mobile operation housed in a repurposed school bus.

At Muse Originals OBX/Bus 252, the innovation continues. And nothing has challenged the local business community to innovate and adapt more than the 2020 COVID pandemic that continues to grip the world.

The fruits of that innovation will soon make themselves known as the “WAcky Whimsical Winterland” transforms to the outside seating area at Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint in Kill Devil Hills in December along with a special November event in Colington Harbor.

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Voting unanimously to recommend that the Kill Devil Hills Board of Commissioners approve the site plan, the town’s Planning Board on Nov. 17 gave the go-ahead for the construction of…

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(Roanoke Island Historical Association) The Roanoke Island Historical Association (RIHA) announced today that Jeff Whiting will join their production team as the Director/Choreographer for the 84th season of The Lost…

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(Outer Banks Visitors Bureau) Here’s more evidence of the uneven economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on major tourism-related industries here. In his recap of the Dare County Tourism Board’s…