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By Peter Vankevich If you’ve read novels by Carl Hiaasen, you’ve likely come across Skink—his eccentric, one-eyed former governor turned environmental vigilante. While the character...

By Peter Vankevich For 33 years, Professor Walt Wolfram brought his graduate students to Ocracoke during their spring break to spend a week teaching middle...

By Connie Leinbach The quilt gods have been shining on Dave and Sylvia Nestor, who since 2012 have won three quilts raffled by the Ocracoke...

By Connie Leinbach Sometimes the treasures one finds along Ocracoke’s shores aren’t shells. Sometimes they are prehistoric teeth, such as the bison tooth that Barry Gregware...

Text and photos by Peter Vankevich Waterfowl memories are woven throughout Ocracoke native Eddie O’Neal’s life. He recalls redheads, pintails, teal and great flocks of geese...

Published courtesy of North Carolina Health NewsMarch 13, 2026 By Will Atwater As 80-degree weather and daffodil and Bradford pear blooms purge winter from North Carolina...

Today, March 16, 2026, has turned stormy, just as it might have been about 200 years agoe when an island character named "Old Quawk"...

By Connie Leinbach Even if Ocracoke School graduates don’t venture far and wide into the outside world, their messages may. That is, messages in bottles that...

By Peter Vankevich Personnel training for a volunteer fire department is vital to ensure the safety of the community as well as for the volunteers...

By Connie Leinbach When does Ocracoke Island ever get to see the state premier of a movie? Ocracoke was treated to just that on Feb. 4...