A big part of the charm of going to Ocracoke is the Hatteras ferry ride. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer They’re back! The N.C. General Assembly Senate budget proposal includes tolling the ...

This concept and those depicted below are in the South Dock feasibility study. Note in Concept 4, above, the dotted line along the water. That line marks how much shoreline has been lost in the ...

Ocrafolk Festival. This year’s festival is June 6 to 8 at the Berkley Manor grounds. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer To see the monthly listing of meetings, music and events, ...

By Connie Leinbach Hyde County’s 2025-2026 budget does not include an increase in the property tax rate but it includes the levying of fees for disposing of household and business trash. The ...

Ocrafolk Festival. This year’s festival is June 6 to 8 at the Berkley Manor grounds. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer Monday, June 2Hyde County Board of Commissioners, 6 pm.

By Connie Leinbach After completing dredging in the Big Foot Slough channel just outside Ocracoke, the long-route ferries across the Pamlico Sound began their summer schedule today. Four boats are ...

Philip Howard has presented many Porch Talks over the years. Photo: P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer Ocracoke Observer staff The Ocracoke Preservation Society’s Porch Talks have become a ...

When the threat of rip currents is high, lifeguards place yellow-and-red caution flags on the beach. Feel free to talk to the lifeguards at the Day Use Area and swim there, too. Photo: C. Leinbach ...

C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer By Connie Leinbach In the next weeks the N.C. Legislature will hammer out a two-year budget that may or may not include a toll ...

Michele Reynolds Leigh Michele Williams Reynolds, age 62, of Ocracoke, and formerly of Raleigh, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 22, in the LiveWell Brassfield Memory Care Facility. She ...

Military attaches attend the British Cemetery Ceremony May 9 on Ocracoke. From left are Capt. Timothy List, U.S.C.G. Sector Commander; Commander Richard Lane, Canadian Forces Naval attaché; ...

OCFD volunteers respond to helicopter medevacs at the airport at all hours of the day and night. Photo: P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer It may be a bit unusual for an editorial to start with, “Hey, ...