Tuesday, Nov. 11Ocracoke Planning Advisory Board, 5:30 pm. Community Center. Wednesday, Nov. 12Ocracoke Preservation Society’s Fall Membership meeting 6 pm in the Ocracoke Community Center.

An Elegant Tern. Photo by Bob Lewis By Peter Vankevich It was early Thursday, Sept. 25, at Cape Point on Hatteras Island. As Bob Lewis focused his long lens on a Black Tern, he noticed in the ...

Thanksgiving weekend will be busy on Ocracoke with several events detailed below. Turkey Trot to precede turkey feasting Nov. 27 The 2025 Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning begins at 1718 Brewing ...

Morning ferry ride to Hatteras by C. Leinbach won third place in Spot Photography in the NC Press Association 2023 newspaper contest. Ferry service to Ocracoke can change at any time due to shoaling, ...

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The Ocracoke Observer cannot stand by and watch the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution be subject to repeated attacks. “Congress shall make no law respecting ...

John Van Coutren shows the area where the Jolly Roger Restaurant will be rebuilt. By Connie Leinbach The Jolly Roger, located on Silver Lake Harbor, will have a new look and should be back in ...

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Working Watermen’s Festival,10 am to sunset. The Community Square docks. Health Fair and Touch a Truck at the OVFD firehouse, 822 Irvin Garrish Hwy., 9 a.m. to noon. Bake sale by Ocracoke School ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Service caught and euthanized three coyotes on Ocracoke in August, but that doesn’t guarantee that there are not others or that more will show up. That was ...

The popular Blackbeard flag flown today was never Blackbeard’s flag, according to irrefutable evidence. If the notorious pirate captain saw it, he wouldn’t know whose it was. Likely, he would have ...

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