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Tuesday, Oct. 30 Gaffer’s: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker, 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31 Gaffer’s: DJ Dance Party, 9 pm Thursday, Nov. 1 Ocracoke Decoy Carver's Guild meeting, Community Center,...

Extra ferries on standby to accommodate Jamboree visitors This weekend, the N.C. Department of Transportation will suspend work to rebuild protective dunes along N.C. Highway...

Ahead of the coastal storm forecast for Friday, Blackbeard's Pirate Jamboree officials are changing some outdoor event locations for the weekend event celebrating the...

Mary Beulah Fleig Leftwich, 84 of Richmond, Va., died Oct. 18. Born April 16, 1934, on Ocracoke Island, she was a daughter of the late Felix A....

For information on this year's elections, click here. To check on your voter registration status, click here. Although early voting in North Carolina for the Nov....

By Pat Garber Hyde County is home to American red wolves, one of the most endangered species of animals on the planet. While they are...

Ocracoke has a big weekend coming up starting Thursday night--Blackbeard's Pirate Jamboree honoring the 300th anniversary of Blackbeard's demise off Ocracoke on Nov. 22,...

Hyde County Manager Kris Noble will hold a public meeting Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 24, to discuss improvements to the Ocracoke Convenience Site. Known locally as...

By Rita Thiel It’s a Saturday afternoon. Nothing is out of the ordinary, and as you stroll through a store you are suddenly paralyzed by an...

Editor's note: This story was first printed in the October 2018 Ocracoke Observer. By Pat Garber More than Fifty years ago, on the first day of...