Richard Smith Taylor, 79, died peacefully at home In Bonaire, Georgia, on May 12, 2026.
Born June 15, 1947, in Raleigh, he was a son of Margaret Greene and Gilbert Smith Taylor.
Richard was devoted to his wife Martha Jean Isleib Taylor. They met at the Unity Center of Peace in Chapel Hill where Richard oversaw the sound system for services.
Richard Taylor. Photo: P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer
Most recently he was on the board of directors at the Unity Spiritual Life Center in Macon, Georgia.
He grew up in North Raleigh, helping his father care for beef cattle and tobacco crops.
Richard graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in communications. He also held an associate’s degree in electronics.
Richard served in the Air Force during the Vietnam era, handling communications at a base in Greenland.
For many years, he worked as a communications technician, installing nurse call buttons and TV satellite systems for many dialysis centers throughout the southeastern U.S. for the Barefoot Lane Company.
Richard was passionate about trains. He could tell you all the schedules of every train in the United States, where it was going, and what it carried as freight. He would often park his car near some tracks and wait for a train to go by waving at the engineer as it passed.
He was a lifelong volunteer for many causes, including the Red Cross. He was working on donating his seventh gallon of negative O universal blood before his final illness.
He extended his kind heart to the natural world, which led him to eat a meat-free diet throughout his adult life. He was a passionate recycler.
His wife said, “Richard never met a wire he didn’t love, whether to install it into a complex system, or to recycle it.”
He was a skilled photographer and collected special frames for the images he took to give to people he loved.
For five years, Richard and Martha lived and worked on Ocracoke before they moved to Georgia in 2022.
On Ocracoke, Richard wrote stories for the Ocracoke Observer, mainly sports coverage, and won second and third place awards for his stories on the 2022 Ocracoke Dolphins baseball team: a thrilling game and Dolphins finish second.
He also worked for WOVV 90.1 FM, the community radio station, as a producer.
He was predeceased by his twin brother David Gilbert Taylor.
In addition to his wife, Richard is survived by a son, Jackson Richard Taylor (Vanessa) and granddaughter, Theodora, both of Solon, Ohio.
Friends like to say that Richard operated on RST (Richard Smith Taylor time), meaning he always lived in the present moment and offered his full attention to whoever or whatever was important to him at the time. The world is a better place because of his gentle, intelligent and kind presence.
In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations in his name to the American Red Cross or to the Unity Spiritual Life Center in Macon, Georgia.
The Day Use area (or Lifeguard Beach) on Ocracoke, NC. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer
MANTEO, N.C. — Cape Hatteras National Seashore will staff five lifeguarded beaches this year from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Lifeguarded Beaches Lifeguarded beaches are the safest places to swim at the Seashore. The five lifeguarded beaches are as follows:
• Coquina Beach Access (Bodie Island) Located across from the Bodie Island Lighthouse site
• Rodanthe Beach Access (Hatteras Island). The Rodanthe Beach Access, provided by Dare County, is located at 23732 N.C. Highway 12, Rodanthe.
• Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Beach Access (Hatteras Island), adjacent to the former site of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Opening date to be determined
• Frisco Beach Access (Hatteras Island). Located just south of Frisco Village
• Ocracoke Beach Access (Ocracoke Island); 1.5 miles south of the Seashore campground or half-mile north of Ocracoke Village.
Safety Alerts Seashore visitors can sign up for ocean and beach condition alerts from Outer Banks lifeguards, ocean rescue agencies and the National Weather Service by texting OBXBeachConditions to 77295. Alerts cover conditions in both Dare and Hyde counties.
Love The Beach, Respect the Ocean website Whether you are planning a visit to a Seashore beach in Dare County or Hyde County’s Ocracoke Island, Love the Beach, Respect the Ocean website is an online destination for learning the daily rip current risk, beach conditions and more. The website also includes many potentially life-saving videos featuring local lifeguards and Outer Banks residents.
Ocean and Beach Safety Tips
• Swim at beaches staffed by lifeguards.
• Bring something in the water with you that floats. Rather than struggling through a rip current and exhausting yourself, bring something into the ocean that floats and easily float away from the rip current. Float don’t fight.
• Swimming in the Atlantic Ocean is not the same as swimming in a pool or a lake. Ocean swimming can be very physically taxing and may exacerbate underlying medical issues.
• A perfect day on the beach doesn’t always mean that it’s a perfect day in the ocean. If in doubt, don’t go out.
• Never swim alone. Swim with a buddy and have adult supervision for all children. Have someone on shore keep an eye on you while you swim, surf or wade.
• Be aware that the ocean presents additional hazards, such as lightning, high surf and shore break. Learn more at www.lovethebeachrespectheocean.com.
• Avoid wearing shiny objects that may attract sharks and other fish.
• Avoid swimming where danger is present: in rough seas; inlets; around fishing piers and surfers, at night or during thunderstorms.
OVFD Firemen’s Ball at the Berkley Barn schedule is as follows: Silent auction: 4 to 6 pm; pig pickin’ $20 per plate 4:30 to 6: 30; Live auction: 6:30 pm followed by music by the Dune Dogs and special guests.
By Peter Vankevich
Editor’s note: 19th Annual Firemen’s Ball is May 23 and is the department’s most important and fun fundraiser.
With the recent purchase of new ladder and brush trucks, the Ocracoke Volunteer Fire Department (OVFD) is upgrading its fleet, said Albert O’Neal, the organization’s long-time fire chief.
The department has acquired a Ford F-550 brush truck equipped with a 400-gallon water tank, replacing an older model that is now listed for sale.
Customized by Midwest Fire and purchased in Luverne, Minnesota, the new vehicle was designed with input from the OVFD for improved reliability and maneuverability in tight spaces. It represents a significant enhancement to the department’s emergency response capabilities.
With a 400-gallon tank, it doubles the water capacity compared to the current truck.
OVFD Fire Chief Albert O’Neal and firefighter Charles Temple test out the new 105-foot ladder truck. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer
said Jeff Dippold, a firefighter who also serves as treasurer. “And because it’s smaller, it’ll do really well in the tight spaces here.”
Assistant Fire Chief Ernie Doshier said the truck has a more dependable pump system with two main hoses and allows distribution from a front bumper outlet that can be controlled by a joystick while moving, a critical feature when combating brush fires.
Dippold and his wife Susan drove the diesel-powered truck 1,500 miles from Luverne to Ocracoke.
In addition to the brush truck, OVFD also received a new ladder truck.
The department found a used truck outside Chicago that features a 105-foot ladder with a platform, offering greater versatility and reach compared to the current 50-foot ladder.
OVFD pursued a used ladder truck because a new one can cost up to $2 million. The ladder truck cost $195,000, while the new brush truck cost $280,000.
Last year, the Stedman Volunteer Fire Department near Fayetteville donated a high-water rescue truck to the OVFD.
This beach-worthy, five-ton truck could play a vital role in emergencies when the road washes out at the north end making other vehicles inaccessible.
Pumper engineer Lt. Vann O’Neal and safety officer Bob Despo maintain all the trucks and customize the new trucks.
With the additions, OVFD will maintain a fleet of nine operational vehicles, a far cry from when Chief O’Neal joined and there were just two outdated trucks.
The department plans to display both trucks at the annual Fireman’s Ball on the evening of May 23 at the Berkley Barn, the major fundraising event that helps offset equipment costs.
An all-volunteer organization, the OVFD is Ocracoke Island’s only resource for firefighting.
To keep the island safe, Ocracoke must have the best equipment and all personnel ready to go as help from any other fire department is at least two hours away, which puts the island in a very vulnerable position.
Community support remains critical, funding for OVFD is primarily from a combination of the Fireman’s Ball, occupancy tax allocations, a Hyde County allocation, T-shirt sales, donations and grants.
Firefighter Jeffrey Dippold with the OVFD’s new brush truck that he drove to Ocracoke from Minnesota. Photo; P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer
A leatherback sea turtle nest on Ocracoke Island, NC. Photo by NPS
From our news services
The Cape Hatteras National Seashore has reported the first sea turtle nest of the 2026 season. Discovered on May 12 on Ocracoke Island, the nest was identified as belonging to a leatherback sea turtle.
Leatherback nests are rare on North Carolina beaches because they lie at the northern edge of the leatherback’s nesting range.
During the past decade, from 2015 through 2024, only four leatherback nests were documented within the Seashore: one on Hatteras Island in 2022, one on Ocracoke Island in 2023, and two in 2024 — the first time in more than 20 years that two leatherback nests were recorded in a single season.
In 2025, a total of 218 sea turtle nests were recorded at Cape Hatteras National Seashore: 193 loggerhead nests, 21 green turtle nests, three Kemp’s ridley nests, and one unidentified nest.
Sea turtles begin laying eggs on Outer Banks beaches in May. The incubation period for the eggs is generally 50 to 60 days.
Having the opportunity to visit Ocracoke with Dr. Walt Wolfram, Dr. Jeff Reaser, Emma, Jacob, and Catie was a truly remarkable experience. It’s an honor to have been part of the continuing 30+ year relationship between NC State’s linguistics program and the Ocracoke community, made unforgettable by the warm welcome given to us by the lovely people we got to meet.
On our first day in Ocracoke, Walt gave us his tour of the island.
While we visited certain locations like the British Cemetery and the Lighthouse, ones that nearly every tourist sees, I knew we’d be in for a unique visit when we pulled into the driveway of someone’s house (by the way, thank you Miggy for having us over for the afternoon).
The people we met and the spaces they care for created an intricately beautiful picture of Ocracoke that no brochure could capture.
To be entirely honest, I had some worries about coming to teach in an unfamiliar place, but these thoughts dissipated the moment we arrived.
The class we taught was incredibly bright and clearly invested in the material and teaching them was the highlight of my trip.
The experience of teaching in Ocracoke was memorable and went above my expectations, and I’m incredibly grateful to the Ocracoke community for being so supportive and kind in having us over for the week.
– Sam Williams, NC State graduate student
Sam Williams, left, visited WOVV with fellow grad students Emma Schoenecker, Catie Weaver, Jacob Wittrock and Dr. Jeff Reaser. Photo: P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer
The O. A. Peay Alumni Association at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 23, will unveil and dedicate a plaque for Hyde County’s Davie Poplar tree, which was planted in 1993 on the campus of the former O. A. Peay School, 1430 Main St., Swan Quarter.
The Davie Poplar tree in Swan Quarter.
The association, which was formed in the early 1950s, holds their annual reunion and homecoming during the Memorial Day weekend on the school grounds, 1430 Main Street, Swan Quarter. The Davie Poplar tree program begins at 2:30 pm.
The history of the tree goes back to 1793 with the Revolutionary War General William Richardson Davie. Davie was one of several committee members who had been given the mission to find just the right location to lay the cornerstone for the nation’s first public university–the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Legend has it that one day during their search, Davie and other committee members stopped to rest and have a picnic lunch under the shade of a massive poplar (tulip) tree. Forthwith they decided that the university would be built nearby. That tree, eventually named for Davie, still stands on the campus of UNC-CH.
In 1993, some 200 years later, as UNC-CH began planning their bicentennial celebration, Peter White, director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, and others proposed the idea of propagating the tree and distributing them to each of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
Sixth graders from across the state wrote essays and the winner in each county traveled to Chapel Hill to receive their county’s tree.
Erica Britt Green of Swan Quarter, who attended O. A. Peay School, represented Hyde County. The entire school participated in the planting of the tree, which can be seen behind the school. Sixth graders were chosen to participate because they would graduate from high school in 2000. That year represented a continuing legacy of public education into the new millennium.
The tree has grown and prospered, but somehow, no marker or plaque recognizing the event was ever erected.
Spearheaded by Archie Green, the current president of the association, a beautiful bronze plaque marking the occasion of the tree’s planting will be installed in time for this year’s homecoming.
Southern Jasmine, like this bank of bushes along Sand Dollar Road, is in bloom all over and perfuming the island. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer
Tuesday, May 12 1718 Brewing Ocracoke: Kate McNally, 7 pm
Wednesday, May 13 Roanoke Island Animal Clinic sees patients in the Community Center. DAJIO: Ray Murray, 8 pm
Thursday, May 14: Ocracoke Planning Advisory Board meets, 5:30 pm. Inside WOVV (across from Ocracoke Coffee). See agenda below. Ocracoke Volunteer Fire Department (OVFD) meeting, New volunteers always welcome. 6 pm. 822 Irvin Garrish Hwy. Zumba class, 6 pm. Community Center. DAJIO: Lou Castro & David Tweedie, 6-8 pm 1718 Brewing Ocracoke: Sam & Dallas, 7 pm
Friday, May 15: “What’s Happening on Ocracoke,” Sheryl Cornett, author of a new book, “No Secrets in This House,” 11:30 am, WOVV 90.1 FM on the island and wovv.org. Book signing at Ocracoke Preservation Society, 1 pm
1718 Brewing Ocracoke: Brooke & Nick, 7 pm
Saturday, May 16: Island-Wide Yard Sale, 9 am to 4 pm. See map below and story here.
Fundraising car wash by FBLA members in the front of Ocracoke School. 1-4 pm.
Sunday, May 17 Church services: Ocracoke United Methodist Church, 11 am Ocracoke Life Saving Church, 11 am Stella Maris Chapel: Sunday Mass time at 4:30 pm but it is important to confirm because a priest may not be available to visit the island. Go to Masstimes.org and type in the zip code 27960, look for Our Lady of the Seas.
DAJIO: Smooth Jazz Sunday with Sam on Sax, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
A southeastern five-lined skink. Photo: P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer
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 is pure fiction, the name itself comes from a very real animal.
Skinks are reptiles—members of the lizard family Scincidae—found across the globe, including North Carolina. Unlike Hiaasen’s larger-than-life character, real skinks are small, shy and harmless to humans.
On Ocracoke Island, however, the most likely lizard to encounter is the green anole (Anolis carolinensis), frequently seen basking on porch rails, tree trunks and branches. Despite being called “chameleons” by some because they can change their color rapidly between green and brown, they are not true chameleons.
Skinks are present as well, though they tend to be more elusive.
The species most likely found on Ocracoke is the southeastern five-lined skink (Plestiodon inexpectatus).
It closely resembles its relative, the five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus), which is more common on the mainland. Juveniles of both species are nearly identical, with dark bodies, five pale stripes and bright blue tails designed to distract predators.
A juvenile southeastern skink. Photo by Jeff Beane
As noted by Jeff Beane, collections manager for Herpetology of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, the southeastern five-lined skink is likely the only striped skink species found on Ocracoke.
Another species, the ground skink (Scincella lateralis) —North Carolina’s smallest reptile—may occur on the island, though confirmed records are lacking.
Habitat helps explain these patterns. The inland five-lined skink prefers moist, wooded areas with plenty of logs and leaf litter.
By contrast, the southeastern species is better suited to the dry, sandy conditions of barrier islands. It thrives in maritime forests, dunes, and scrub habitats—landscapes that define barrier islands like Ocracoke.
Adult skinks can be harder to distinguish. Southeastern five-lined skinks often retain more of their striping into adulthood, but males have a stronger tendency for their striped patterns to become obscured as they grow older.
The mainland five-lined skinks may lose their stripes and develop a more uniform color. Even so, these differences can be subtle, and accurate identification often requires close inspection.
If you spot a striped or deep brown lizard in the sandy habitats or among leaf litter on Ocracoke, it’s most likely the southeastern five-lined skink.
Alongside the more visible green anoles, these secretive lizards are part of the island’s ecosystem: They help control insects and offer a glimpse into the adaptations that allow wildlife to thrive along North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
Community Square will be protected in perpetuity. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer
Ocracoke’s Community Square has received historic preservation designations and protections by Preservation North Carolina through a historic preservation agreement.
Located on the north shore of Silver Lake, the Community Square, owned by Ocracoke Foundation Inc., worked with PNC to permanently protect the buildings in the square with a historic easement that prevents their being torn down and rebuilt with something else.
PNC’s Eastern Regional Director Maggie Gregg said the designation protects five historic commercial buildings: the iconic Community Store (1950), the William Ellis Williams House (ca. 1900), Will Willis’ Store and Fish House (1930), the Electric Office (ca. 1936), and the island’s first electric generator plant (ca. 1936).
Such easements become part of the deed and guarantee that the buildings are “protected in perpetuity” no matter who owns them.
This historic square is the traditional commercial center of Ocracoke, said Foundation President Scott Bradley.
“It’s central to the charm of Ocracoke that attracts visitors,” he said. “It displays Ocracoke’s maritime heritage and traditions.”
Preserving the historic square became an issue in 2009 when it was listed for public sale.
Working with the seller, David Senseney, the foundation purchased the entire square in November 2013 for $1.6 million and began obtaining historic designation for it.
This was made possible by two interim loans, with The Conservation Fund and Keith and Isabelle McDermott of London, England, and Ocracoke each making loans of $800,000.
In December 2017, The Conservation Fund loan was repaid with a new loan of $600,000 from TowneBank, and $200,000 from 200+ individual donations and other sources.
In May 2020 the McDermotts transformed their $800,000 loan into a gift.
The Community Square has served as a hub for commerce and social activity and waterfront access for decades.
Many early island photographs depict daily life centered around the square’s iconic Community Store, the Will Willis Fish House, the Ice Plant and the island’s first generator plant.
Community Square. Undated photo
In 1918 Amasa ‘Mace’ Fulcher’s grocery store faced the harbor, appropriate for a business whose freight arrived by boat.
Island men gathered on the porch to share stories, whittle birds and ponder the ways of fish. In winter months the congregation moved inside near the pot-bellied stove. The daily arrival of the mail boat Aleta drew a majority of islanders from their homes. The Community Square can model how rural communities can put their assets to work: save historic properties, provide space for locally owned small businesses, maintain waterfront access and public open space, be a focal point for tourism, and use the lease income as a permanent endowment to benefit our island, the foundation says on its website.
Bradley said negotiations are continuing to purchase the Ocracoke Seafood Company building to protect another historic property.
The foundation owns the Ocracoke Seafood Company business but does not own the property.
A working fish house for local fishermen and women to sell their product, it is part of Ocracoke’s maritime heritage.
These efforts mirror that of the Ocracoke Preservation Society, which in 2018, purchased the Island Inn to save it for community use.
Community Square. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer
Rory Kelly of Durham leads the Scallywag Half-Marathon pack on April 26. She won with a time of 1:20:05.
Text and photos by Connie Leinbach
The Ocracoke Island Scallywag Weekend Runfest April 25 and 26 had several firsts in this year’s 5K/10K and half-marathon races, and the big first is that a woman won the half-marathon.
Rory Kelly, 29 of Durham, won the 13.1-mile half-marathon with a time of 1:20:24.
She was the first female to ever win the half-marathon, said Race Director Angie Todd while announcing the awards, and she beat last year’s winner, Ethan Sommers, who had clocked a time of 1:23:05.
A medical student at Duke, Kelly said in an interview that this was her first half-marathon. She has been running for 15 years in local 5Ks.
It was her first time on Ocracoke.
“My friends told me I have to come to Ocracoke and they were so right,” she said. “I had a great time in this race, enjoying the island for the first time. The course, the volunteers, the spectators, the competition were great.”
Kelly’s time was the second best in the Ocracoke half-marathon history for which Connor Readman of Southern Shores holds the record time of 1:18:35, run in 2021.
Kelly was about a minute ahead of second-place winner Josiah Hynes, who followed close behind with a time of 1:21:31.
Hynes captured top place of males running the half-marathon, followed by Cameron Lyons, 26, of Cary, came in second of the males and third overall at 1:28.04.
Although he was trying for a time of 34 minutes, Hynes won the 10K on Saturday with a time of 37:14. Lyons was second in the 10K at 39:16.35, and Holland Spruill, 23, of Virginia Beach, came in third at 39:41.55.
On Ocracoke, 10K runners go twice around the 5K course, which goes through Ocracoke village.
For the first time, a youth ran in the half-marathon, which first goes to the NPS campground then back through the village.
Ten-year-old Chetwood Seifarth tries to beat the world record for a 10-year-old in the half marathon. He missed by about 14 minutes.
Ten-year-old Chetwood Seifarth of Hagerstown, Maryland, finished the half-marathon 7th place overall with a time of 1:35:31. He was trying to beat the world record of a 10-year-old running the marathon.
According to a Google search, Leo Mendoza of Houston, Texas, set a world record for a 10-year-old in the half marathon with a time of 1:21:50 at the White River Marathon in November 2025.
Seifarth wasn’t upset that he didn’t break the record, but since his birthday is June 4, he will have to train to beat the half-marathon world record next year as an 11-year-old.
He will have to try to beat Mendoza again because in January, Mendoza, now 11, broke the world record for his age group at the Aramco Houston Half Marathon, running it in 1:23:23.
Isaid Villanueava, 15, of Ocracoke, came in fourth overall in the 5K and was third in males overall.
“I’m going to really, really train hard for next year,” Seifarth said, while awaiting the awards ceremony trying to stay dry with his family.
The day before, Seifarth came in third overall in the 5K with a time of 20:21.
While Saturday was sunny, the runners competed Sunday morning under a drizzling rain, but that didn’t seem to faze them because rather than running under a hot sun, the rain cools them off.
“A lot of my runs are in the rain,” said Tracy Simone, 62, of Absecon, New Jersey, who was running the half-marathon for her seventh time. She finished in 2:16:39 at 91st place out of 158 runners who finished.
“If it was raining harder, we’d be chilled to the bone,” said Michael Bridgers as he and his large group of friends from the No Wake Hash House Harriers running club of Beaufort. The group swept several awards on both days.
Abby Berquist, 43, of Kitty Hawk comes in second overall in the 10K and is first in females overall with a time of 19:56. She also placed third in overal females in the half-marathon with a time of 1:36:38.
On Saturday, more than 400 runners from Ocracoke and beyond awaited the start of the 5K and 10K in the parking lot of 1718 Brewing Ocracoke where all the races begin and end.
Andy Painter, 44, of Cary, won the 5K with a time of 17:43 and Abby Berquist, 43, of Kitty Hawk, came in second with a time of 19:56.
“It was a personal record for me,” Berquist said. “I got under 20 minutes.”
There were 662 registered, Todd said, with about 90 running two races.
Results of all the races can be found on the Run The East website.
Todd noted that the event went without any glitches and said that some business owners on the island praised it as well.
“I had a person on the island who works in retail sends me a text Saturday night that said, ‘Holy cow, runners spend a lot of money’,” she said. “I had another business tell me that it’s their best weekend of the year and that the running demographic is the best.”
A day before the race, Todd was on WOVV’s “What’s Happening on Ocracoke,” to talk about the race and running. While talking with Peter Vankevich about marathons, Todd predicted that a human being would someday break the under-two hour mark for a marathon and the same day as the Scallywag half-marathon, two runners did just that in the London Marathon.
Proceeds of the event, from fees and sponsorships and which amount to about $50,000, are shared among the Ocracoke Youth Center, Ocracoke’s community radio WOVV 90.1 FM, and the Ocracoke School Boosters.
The all-woman team of the Western Carteret Medical center in Cedar Point had matching outfits for their first time running as a group the 5K.
“We focus on everyone’s health journey,” said Rebecca Droberg, a nurse practitioner who owns the practice. “What better way to exemplify our passion.”
Peter Vankevich contributed to this story.
The running crowd at 1718 Brewing Ocracoke.
The 5K/10K funners are off!
The Western Carteret Medical Center running group.
Tommy Hutcherson, left, is MC of the Scallywag 5K/10K & Half-marathon and Angie Todd is race director.
5K male overall winners are, from left, Chetwood Seifarth, second, Isaid Villaneuava, third, and winner Andy Painter.
Runners wait under teh 1718 porch on a rainy Sunday.
Second-place female winner of the half-marathon,, Lauren Lee, 32, of Emerald Isle, is with the half-marathon overall and female winner Rory Kelly, 29, of Durham.
The No Wake Zone Hash House Harriers running cllub of Beaufort show off thier wins.
Josiah Hynes, right, is overall male 10K winner, and Cameron Lyons is second. Not pictured is Holland Spruill, third. Hynes also captured the top male finisher in the half-marathon with Lyons nabbing second place.
Female winners of the 10K overall are Amy Johnson of Clayton, first place, Elizabeth Cella of New Bern, third place, and Lauren Lee of Emerald Isle, second place.
