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] 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 died in 1964, and in 1973, his family changed the name back to the Coastland Times.