Featured Stories
Ocrafolk Festival set for early June
Scenes from last year's festival are in the slideshow below.
The 22nd annual Ocrafolk Music and Storytelling Festival will be held on the grounds of...
Portsmouth Homecoming returns
By Peter Vankevich and Hannah Bunn West
Time on Portsmouth Island moves more slowly than much of the world elsewhere, so they say.
But with regards...
Another above average hurricane season predicted
By Peter Vankevich
Hurricane Awareness Week runs from May 1 through May 7. For this, the National Weather Service out of Newport/Moorhead City has...
What’s open now on Ocracoke
The list below is as of May 7, 2022, and will be updated as we receive information. Please send open hours info to: info@ocracokeobserver.com...
General Island Information
Passenger ferry between Ocracoke and Hatteras set to begin May 17
From our news services
Reservations are now available for the fourth season of passenger ferry service between Hatteras and Ocracoke Village, as a brand-new Ocracoke Express makes...
Ocracoke Fig Festival to host Chef Ricky Moore
The Ocracoke community will celebrate the summer’s fig bounty at the Fig Festival Aug. 4 to 6 with special guest Chef Ricky Moore.
The May 2022 issue
The Ocracoke Observer website won first place in the 2020 NCPA contest Online Division, plus four other awards. Winner of 10 awards for 2019, including first place for breaking news coverage of Hurricane Dorian.
