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By Connie Leinbach Hyde County Emergency Services will soon be airborne in a first-in-the-nation trial program using an ultralight aircraft. The Blackfly, an electric Vertical Takeoff...

Editor's note: Background information about the ferry tolling process is at the end of this story. By Connie Leinbach If the North Carolina Legislature is bent...

Editor's note: Justin LeBlanc will talk at the Ocracoke Civic & Business Association meeting about what the Ocracoke Access Alliance did and learned from...

Editor's note: This story was first published in the October print issue of the Observer. Text and photos by Connie Leinbach After about 30 years, Ocracoke...

Text and photos by Michael Lydick The dunes at South Point shift a little every time I return—sometimes a gentle reshaping, other times a dramatic...

By Peter Vankevich The birds of Ocracoke proved watcher-friendly for the annual Christmas Bird Count held on Dec. 31. For the second consecutive year,...

By Amy Howard A common belief is that people who live on Ocracoke are rich. We aren't. We are industrious and work hard to be able to...

Hyde County is looking to raise money with an increase in the sales tax and voters will have the chance to weigh in during...

The Ocracoke Observer, the island’s independent community newspaper since 1999, has been selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress’s National Digital Newspaper Program. The...

By Jeanne Brook Sitting in Zillie’s on a winter night, we turned at the door creak to see Eduardo Chavez Perez walk in. Seeing Eduardo outside...