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Corinne Saunders

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Award-winning journalist, photographer, teacher / Outer Banks reporter / Formerly @virginianpilot, @daily_press, @dailyadvance, etc. / Opinions my own
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'Here, people are very friendly:' J-1 student workers arrive on Outer Banks for the summer

'Here, people are very friendly:' J-1 student workers arrive on Outer Banks for the summer

Last year, 1,152 students participated in the U.S. Department of State's "Summer Work Travel" program on the …

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Once part of the nation's largest farm, crops still grow in Dare County - surrounded by wildlife ...

Once part of the nation's largest farm, crops still grow in Dare County - surrounded by wildlife ...

Corn and soybeans grow on farmland around Dare County's C&D landfill in Manns Harbor. The county's property i…

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Outer Banks teen surfer competes internationally, plans to 'keep going up'

Outer Banks teen surfer competes internationally, plans to 'keep going up'

Will Deane, 16, will soon compete for his second time at the highest level of junior surfing, at the 2024 Int…

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'It smells like a gas station': Hatteras Island beach hazards remain without clear path to cleanu...

'It smells like a gas station': Hatteras Island beach hazards remain without clear path to cleanu...

Nearly half a year after coastal erosion exposed them, the hazards on the beach by the Buxton Beach Access re…

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102 mph wind gust clocked on the Outer Banks; residents suspect tornado

102 mph wind gust clocked on the Outer Banks; residents suspect tornado

The National Weather Service measured a wind gust of 102 miles per hour at 10:18 p.m. at Jennette's Pier in N…

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Popular YouTuber MrBeast bought tiny Outer Banks island for $1

Popular YouTuber MrBeast bought tiny Outer Banks island for $1

MrBeast, a popular YouTube and online entertainer from Greenville, bought a tiny, undeveloped Outer Banks isl…

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Castle at Jockey's Ridge State Park uncovered again - this time, possibly to stay

Castle at Jockey's Ridge State Park uncovered again - this time, possibly to stay

With the whims of the wind, a nearly 50-year-old castle has been repeatedly buried by sand and uncovered. But…

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Little Red Mailbox a bright beacon of hope on Outer Banks and elsewhere

Little Red Mailbox a bright beacon of hope on Outer Banks and elsewhere

The Little Red Mailbox that popped up in Kill Devil Hills nearly a decade ago has grown to 20 mailboxes in mu…

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Frequently-fined wastewater treatment plant raises concerns for proposed Southern Shores developm...

Frequently-fined wastewater treatment plant raises concerns for proposed Southern Shores developm...

Concerns over adding more load to a wastewater treatment plant that has been "under emergency operation" for …

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Dare County deputy who fatally shot Manteo man identified; ambulance requested in redacted 911 tr...

Dare County deputy who fatally shot Manteo man identified; ambulance requested in redacted 911 tr...

The Virginian-Pilot has identified Edward Glaser III as the Dare County Sheriff's Office deputy who fatally s…

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Nationwide drops over 10,500 N.C. homeowners policies, including some on the Outer Banks

Nationwide drops over 10,500 N.C. homeowners policies, including some on the Outer Banks

Nationwide is not renewing 10,525 homeowners insurance policies in North Carolina, over half of them due to h…

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Legendary Outer Banks crabber dies in second suspected Vibrio death this summer

Legendary Outer Banks crabber dies in second suspected Vibrio death this summer

Known as the "Crabfather of Colington," Murray Bridges died Aug. 22 after contracting a bacterial infection f…

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Dune Day marks 50 years since Outer Banks woman stopped bulldozer from flattening Jockey's Ridge

Dune Day marks 50 years since Outer Banks woman stopped bulldozer from flattening Jockey's Ridge

On Aug. 15, 1973, Carolista Baum famously stood in front of a bulldozer threatening to flatten the iconic san…

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Alligator encounter on the Outer Banks causes a stir in small fishing village

Alligator encounter on the Outer Banks causes a stir in small fishing village

A documented encounter with an alligator in Wanchese, a small fishing village on the southern end of Roanoke …

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'A family because of Lisa'

'A family because of Lisa'

Dare County Dance founder Lisa Allen Heath takes a bow By Corinne Saunders | Outer Banks Voice When Lisa Al…

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Outer Banks recycling stabilizes after years of turmoil | Coastal Review

Outer Banks recycling stabilizes after years of turmoil | Coastal Review

Upheaval in markets, controversy over incineration and escalating costs had prompted officials in Dare and Cu…

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'I wouldn't miss meeting an icon of history'

'I wouldn't miss meeting an icon of history'

Ruby Bridges book signing in Corolla draws hundreds By Corinne Saunders | Outer Banks Voice Hundreds of peo…

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Roanoke-Hatteras Algonquian: The tribe that never left | Coastal Review

Roanoke-Hatteras Algonquian: The tribe that never left | Coastal Review

Marilyn Berry Morrison, an outspoken advocate for the Roanoke-Hatteras Tribe of the Algonquian Indians of Nor…

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Heart & Soul offers help to trafficking victims

Heart & Soul offers help to trafficking victims

In December, when a 13-year-old girl went missing from Moyock, a nonprofit working to combat human traffickin…

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Visible Change: Alligator River 'Ghost Forests' | Coastal Review

Visible Change: Alligator River 'Ghost Forests' | Coastal Review

The effects of climate change on the N.C. coast are especially pronounced at the Alligator River National Wil…

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