The Coastland Times

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The Coastland Times
Founder(s)Daniel Victor Meekins
PublisherOuter Banks Newsmedia
FoundedJuly 5, 1935;88 years ago (1935-07-05)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Manteo, North Carolina
Circulation 5,000
ISSN 1069-4722
OCLC number 13142070
Website www.thecoastlandtimes.com

The Coastland Times is a newspaper serving the Outer Banks region of Eastern North Carolina, which specifically consists of Dare, Currituck, Hyde, and Tyrrell counties. It is published twice each week, and has a printed circulation of 5,000 copies, according to its website. [1]

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History

The paper was established in 1935, originally as The Dare County Times, by Manteo, North Carolina native Daniel Victor Meekins and his wife, Catherine Deaton Meekins. [1] Victor Meekins changed the paper's name to the Coastland Times in 1947. Meekins changed its name again in 1959, this time to the Coastland Times With Which Is Combined the Pilot and Herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. Meekins died in 1964, and in 1973, his family changed the name back to the Coastland Times. The Meekins family, including Victor Meekins' sons Roger Preston Meekins and Francis Warren Meekins, retained control over the paper until selling it to Outer Banks Newsmedia in December 2017. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "About Us". The Coastland Times. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  2. "The Coastland Times (Manteo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-04-27.