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...
Joebell flowers on Ocracoke
Jobell flowers in Community Square. Photo: C. Leinbach
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‘The Socialists are coming! The Socialists are coming!’
Robert Orr
By Robert F. Orr
Mitch McConnell texted me the other day with an...
Randal Mathews’ open letter to the Ocracoke community
Rep. John A. Torbett, R-Gaston, chair of the N.C. House Select Committee on Strategic Transportation Planning and Long-Term Funding Solutions and...
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...
Against offshore drilling
Editor:
If you’re reading this, you’re probably familiar with the blessing that is our coast. It provides us with...
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...
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...
One non-resident property owner to other NRPOs: ‘Please wait’
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By Mike Lydick
I’m a member of an Ocracoke Non-Resident Property Owner (NRPO) Facebook page that was created...
Anger is a most convenient tool
A front moves into Ocracoke. Photo: C. Leinbach
By Traci DeVette Griggs
It’s a food...