How the pandemic put a spin on Ocracoke’s year
Despite the worldwide pandemic, Ocracoke has shown its resiliency, though not without some controversy as it struggled to handle adversities never encountered.
Ocracoke businesses and...
Something’s in the air, not just the hair
By Kelley Shinn
Ocracoke, we need to have a serious conversation—about hairspray, and other things.
Given everything we have collectively been through since Hurricane Dorian struck...
To sleep, perchance to dream
Ask a Mental Health Professional No. 10
By Earle Irwin
Question: I don’t sleep. It’s been so long since I had a good night’s sleep, I’ve...
Will this be our winter of discontent?
Over the last several years, we’ve written editorials about what it’s like on Ocracoke in the quiet season.
One of them was “The winter of...
Divisiveness, derisiveness, indecisiveness and duress
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Ask a mental health professional No. 9
By Earle Irwin
Question: The world does not seem...
A call for leadership: Why I’m voting for Tess Judge
Editor's note: Tess Judge (D-Kitty Hawk) is challenging incumbent Bob Steinburg (R-Edenton) in the general election Nov. 3 for the N.C. state Senate District...
Anger is a most convenient tool
By Traci DeVette Griggs
It’s a food fight. The two rowdy instigators are on either side of a large crowd. As they hurl their refuse...
Randal Mathews’ open letter to the Ocracoke community
Editor's note: Randal Mathews was unopposed for Ocracoke's county commissioner seat in the primary this spring, is on the Nov. 3 ballot, and will...
A historic general election looms
Imelda Marcos was filmed saying something rather chilling in a 2019 documentary of her life: “Perception is real; the truth is not,” she says...
Joebell flowers on Ocracoke
By Pat Garber
One of the first things I remember from my early years at Ocracoke was the presence of joebells, lovely red and yellow...