Jeff Beane and Stephanie Horton are regulars for the Ocracoke and Portsmouth Christmas Bird Counts. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer By Peter Vankevich This headline? Thomas Hardy is author of ...

The headwaters of the Apalachicola River. Photo by Tom Pahl Editor’s note: Ocracoke Islanders Tom and Carol Pahl are on a trek around the United States (following 70-degree weather) and will ...

Activities are at a minimum on Ocracoke Christmas week as islanders prepare for the holiday, but the Ocracoke United Methodist Church (71 School Rd), has planned the following: ...

In the last several weeks, Ocracoke Islanders who get notices from the N.C. Ferry Division regarding route operations have received more than the typical number of texts noting the cancelation of ...

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” – Thomas Jefferson ...

C. Leinbach MANNS HARBOR – Four routes in the North Carolina Ferry System will be operating alternate schedules on Christmas Day, which is a ...

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Ocracoke sometimes brings people together in serendipitous ways, and Chris and Brynley Farr discovered that when they competed with Chris’s sailing muse in the holiday boat parade. Six boats all ...

We hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful island, the last island of the Outer Banks, N.C. Ocracoke is the southernmost island of the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Ocracoke, in Hyde County, is very ...