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Cupcake couture sweetens the OBX
Manager Ashley Insley with owner Dawn Eskins. (Russ Lay)
Carolina Cupcakery was born in 2007. Dawn Eskines and her two daughters started the venture in the cozy comfort confines of her Camden, N.C. kitchen. The two nearest gourmet cupcake operations were in Washington, D.C. and South Carolina.
Eskins believes Carolina Cupcakery was among the first 50 such businesses in the country, well ahead of the wave that has now created franchised operations such as GiGi’s.
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Dare County tops in state for self-employed workers
Dare County has the highest number of self employed workers in North Carolina, and rankest among the top area’s in the country for the amount of people who run their own unincorporated businesses.
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Front Porch: New stores followed early success
Front Porch owner Paul Manning notes that because of his employee retention, he can open a new store and “trust the people to run it” the same way he would.
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Luxury cat builder picks Wanchese
Gunboat Co., a maker of high-end sailboats, plans to invest $1.8 million to set up shop in Wanchese Seafood Industrial Park.
“Milepost” magazine to be featured in The Voice
“Milepost” fills a long-vacant void in local, lifestyle publications. It covers far more than where to eat and what to do. The Voice will be featuring stories from “Milepost.”
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N.C. secretary named to national tourism advisory board
Linda Carlisle, Department of Cultural Resources secretary, was sworn in Thursday as a member of a tourism advisory board to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
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Southern Bank to close four Currituck and Dare locations
Former Bank of the Commonwealth branches in Moyock, Powells Point, Kitty Hawk, and Waves will be closing at the end of February.
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Chamber warns of real estate scam
The Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce recently warned members about a scam that uses Craigslist and has impacted several rental properties in the area.
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Front Porch Cafe – Beginnings
Paul & Susannah Manning, co-owners of the Front Porch Cafe, exhibit the entrepreneurial style that separates successful businesses from the rest of the pack.
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