‘The Socialists are coming! The Socialists are coming!’
Robert Orr
By Robert F. Orr
Mitch McConnell texted me the other day with an...
Flooded! Ten months of frustration
Pat Garber’s ‘Marsh Haven’ home in better times. Photo by Pat Garber
To catch up on Ocracoke...
Ocracoke’s resiliency in the midst of many trials
A newly rebuilt DAJIO Restaurant reopens at 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, almost a year to the day of suffering severe...
COVID-19 will be on the island soon if not already; What...
There was good public health news last week when a mass testing event for COVID-19 in the National Park Service parking lot...
2020 Census too costly to ignore
Hyde County, North Carolina
Editor’s note: Hyde County has one of the lowest census response rates in the...
Against offshore drilling
Editor:
If you’re reading this, you’re probably familiar with the blessing that is our coast. It provides us with...
Tropical Storm Isaias threat prompts removal of travel trailers; Ocracoke’s commissioner...
As of 6 p.m. today, the National Weather Service out of Newport/Morehead City reports that the intensity...
Commissioner comments on COVID-19 in Hyde County
Editor's note: Tom Pahl is Ocracoke's Hyde County commissioner and offers these comments following the Hyde County commissioner's monthly meeting held virtually via Facebook...
Peaceful marches are possible
A Black Lives Matter march on Ocracoke on June 28 had about 150 participants who walked down Irvin Garrish Highway from...
How ‘Black Lives Matter’ should really be interpreted
The following op-ed piece is by a former justice on the N.C. Supreme Court, Bob Orr. Orr was the first Republican to win a...