Nighthawk News

12/14/2025

Holiday Social Media Marathon: Day 14!

On the 14th day of the Holiday Social Media Marathon, Nighthawk News grants you a guide to local holiday activities!!⭐️

12/03/2025

Our friends at Shorelines Yearbook made a fun video previewing the 2025 Good Guys vs Cancer Basketball Showcase. If you missed it on Instagram and TikTok, here's another chance to enjoy it from YouTube!

Hear from Nighthawks basketball coach Chad Williams, players and more about this huge annual event that brings in top basketball talent from across the count...

11/26/2025

The final round of Nighthawk Notes! This tradition is one of our favorites, there is nothing like spreading the love during the holidays!! We hope you all have a great thanksgiving!!

11/20/2025

Gratitude Wednesday!! We hope you enjoy more of our Nighthawk Notes!!

11/13/2025

Round three of Nighthawk Notes!! We love seeing what our staff is grateful for!! 🍁

11/11/2025

Round two of our Nighthawk Notes!!

11/07/2025

This November we are spotlighting our staff and what we are grateful for! Each day we will post our “Nighthawk Notes,” we are extremely excited to share this with you all and hope they will brighten up your day! We invite everyone to participate, so students and staff if you are interested please contact Mr Hanf or stop by the Journalism room for more information!

10/31/2025

The fall edition of Nighthawk News Magazine is out and about in the school and various businesses up and down the beach. We hope you'll enjoy picking up a copy of this 40-page edition that features great news, features, opinions and sports stories about FFHS and the greater OBX community!

If you'd like to peruse a digital copy, check out this link to a PDF version of the magazine: https://online.fliphtml5.com/seaik/bnmw/

We are so grateful to the many community partners who supported this publication with advertisements!

Mama Kwan's Tiki Bar & Grill
Outer Banks Health
Southern Shores Realty - Outer Banks
Southern Bank
Shore Coffee Roasters
Single Fin Thai-Sushi Nags Head, NC
Bangkok Thai-Sushi Duck, NC
Ducks' Cottage
Bad Bean Baja Grill
Coastal Carolina Vacations and Sales

Ascencion Music Academy
Outer Banks Orthodontics
Meowter Banks Cat Cafe
Easy Ice OBX
Stack 'em High Pancakes of KDH
Slice Pizzeria
Rock Solid Fishing
Confetti Travel Service

10/14/2025

10/14/2025

Join the fun at the Hoco tailgate Friday with a hot dog eating contest sponsored by the Nighthawk Club!

08/13/2025

Welcome back! Senior formals will be held in the library this week, you can park behind the school and enter through the back doors! Enjoy your final weeks of summer! ☀️

06/27/2025

Several members of the Nighthawk News Magazine and Shorelines Yearbook staffs recently attended the statewide North Carolina Scholastic Media Association Summer Institute. Students took classes at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Media and Journalism in news, yearbook, photography, design or broadcast tracks.
The three-day event concluded with awards, with Nighthawk News staff members earning 16 individual honors and the magazine as a whole earning All-North Carolina status and the prestigious Tarheel Award once again as one of the top news magazines in the state. Individual winners were:

-- Makenna Kerns, 1st Place News Story
-- Summer Newton, 2nd Place News Story
-- Isla Molton, 1st Place Sports Story
-- Aiden Pilot, 3rd Place Sports Story
-- Reagan Bembridge, 1st Place Personality Profile
-- Isla Molton, 3rd Place Personality Profile
-- Kirra Cox, Honorable Mention Personality Profile
-- Ashleigh Haney and Kat Gregg, 2nd Place, Staff Editorial
-- Ashleigh Haney and Kirra Cox, 3rd Place, Staff Editorial
-- Aiden Pilot, 3rd Place, Feature Story
-- Kenzie Brown, 2nd Place, General/Entertainment Column
-- Kat Gregg, HM, Review Writing
-- Charlotte Nultemeier and Shelby Chercka, 2nd Place, Graphic
-- Charlotte Nultemeier, 1st Place, Front Page Design
-- Ella Ogburn, 2nd Place, Front Page Design
-- Betty Morales Bravo, 3rd Place, Feature Photo

Recent graduate Ella Ogburn was recognized at the event for being a runner-up in the NC High School Journalist of the Year competition, receiving her $1,000 scholarship from NCSMA and the NC Press Foundation. Adviser Steve Hanf taught the Newspaper division of the camp.