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11/28/2025

We’re going on a blender. See details to enter below ⬇️

🎉THE BIGGEST GIVEAWAY OF THE YEAR! 🎉

Ready to sip your way through 2026? Clean Juice Southern Pines is giving ONE lucky winner a free 16oz smoothie every week for an entire year in 2026! 🍓🥤✨

After the Thanksgiving feasting… we’ve got the perfect way to reset, recharge, and get back to feeling amazing. Come see us Nov 24–Dec 1 and enter to WIN!

How to Enter:
🥤 Make any in-store purchase of $11.95+ between Nov 24–Dec 1
📝 Fill out your raffle ticket at checkout with name and number
🎟️ Drop your ticket in the raffle box

That’s it — you’re in! One entry per qualifying purchase, per day.

Kick off the holidays feeling GOOD… and you might just be sipping FREE smoothies all year long. 🧡✨

Winner announced 12/4/2025
*Valid at Clean Juice Southern Pines only.

11/26/2025

Put your money where your mouth is. (That means shop local.) Shop, dine and play in Downtown Aberdeen this holiday season. Check out a variety of boutiques, home stores, restaurants and more and enjoy the social district while you're at it.

11/26/2025

Take adult swim lessons at FirstHealth Fitness, Dec. 1-17, where you'll learn front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke, and treading water. The adults-only class means you have nothing to be embarrassed about and you can start the new year with a new skill. Classes meet Monday and Wednesday evenings. Sign up by Nov. 30.

11/25/2025

Like wine, art is meant to be shared.

Refine Your Palette If you swear something looks different when you walk into Cork lately, it’s not just the alcohol talking. The walls got a glow-up. “We have these big massive walls and wanted to put some local art up,” says owner Pat McKee. “I wanted something very Southern Pines, but no...

11/20/2025

We popped in for Girls Night Out at the annual Festival of Trees. It’s the perfect tree-t to kick off the holiday season, happening now through Saturday, November 22. The festival raises money for Sandhills Children’s Center. Enter by any monetary donation 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

📍The Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst

11/18/2025

Looking to find a primary care practice that also understands functional and integrative medicine? Physician Associate Kayla Keegan has a strong background in primary care but understands that sometimes alternative practices are worth a shot too, giving her a unique approach to health. When she’s not busy doing cardio (aka chasing her kids around at a local event) she’ll see you at Vitacore in downtown Southern Pines. The practice accepts all major insurances, including Tricare.

https://www.vitacoremed.com

11/18/2025

In case you missed it, Empower Studio is now open for a spin.

Unleash Your Pole-tential The poles are in. Empower Studio, the first pole fitness/dance studio in the area, officially opens this Saturday. Owner Devin Garner was a labor and delivery nurse for 17 years and now works in aesthetics. “It’s in my nature to want to empower women,” she says. The s...

11/16/2025

Life is what you bake it. Get tickets for the Carolina Cookie Exchange happening at Village Pine Venue before it sells out.

Tickets include a seasonal drink, a charcuterie grazing table and hors d'oeuvres, access to a hot chocolate bar and lots of holiday cookies. You make four dozen cookies, you take home three dozen.

Join the fun: https://ticketmesandhills.com/events/the-carolina-cookie-exchange-12-7-2025

11/14/2025

It all started with a little note. Happening this weekend Nov. 14-16, see Love Letters live on stage at BPAC.

PATRICK DUFFY and LINDA PURL in celebrated playwright A.R. Gurney’s epistolary romance about first loves and second chances. LOVE LETTERS is a disarmingly funny and unforgettably emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love. Two friends share fifty years of friendship through countl...

11/14/2025

If you like coffee a latte, here's some background on Crossroads Coffee in Vass as they celebrate 10 years.

Crossroads Coffee in Vass is celebrating its 10th anniversary this Friday, Nov. 14. The coffee shop started with a group of five men, all in the military and all avid coffee lovers. But they often deployed, and sometimes all at once. So one of their wives, Mollie Jolly, and her friend Kasi Caddell s...

11/10/2025

In case you missed it, here’s whats happening locally to celebrate those who have served.

:: See something we missed? Let us know at [email protected].

11/10/2025

These guys are locking in.

Escapism Is So Hot Right Now Meet Some Guys Who are Locking in. Literally. In a dimly lit, cave-like room, a clock sits on a wall taunting those inside with a reminder of time slipping away and of the glory that might await beyond its passageways — should there be a successful escape. Beads of [.....