By CONNIE LEINBACH The Ocracoke Observer Members of the Ocracoke Civic and Business Association agreed on Wednesday night, April 13, that euthanizing the hundreds of mallard ducks making their home in the village is not the answer to their overpopulation. The group agreed to explore several conservative approaches to the problem of the myriad of […]
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Ocracoke will be featured in two national magazines this summer, Coastal Living and Southern Living and is included in two “best beaches” contests. Coastal Living magazine has included Ocracoke Island in its first-ever Beach Madness Bracket, “The Best Beach in America 2016.” The island also was part of a recent USA Today poll about the […]
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While close to 50 islanders packed into the Ocracoke School commons room, as well as in the Hyde County Services building in Swan Quarter where the meeting was held, the issue went out with whimper and not a bang. “There’s a petition with more than 1,400 names and I’ve gotten tons and tons of letters,” […]
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State legislators who spent three days in Hyde County earlier this week were impressed with the county and the passion of islanders who traveled to speak on behalf of keeping the Hatteras Ferry free. Hyde County Manager Bill Rich on Wednesday said that thanks to the efforts of Rep. John Torbett (R-Gaston) and Paul Tine […]
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The North Carolina Select Committee on Transportation Planning will meet on mainland Hyde County on Monday, Jan. 25, to discuss transportation, specifically focusing on ferries and aviation. The group, chaired by Rep. John Torbett, R-Gaston County, is meeting to discuss transportation issues unique to our coastal area. There are 20 legislators on that committee, but […]
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With little fanfare, the Hyde County commissioners on Monday night, Jan. 4, voted unanimously to approve a fireworks display July 3 on Ocracoke. Bill Rich, Hyde County manager, said the Occupancy Tax Board on Dec. 22 approved the $20,000 expenditure for an 18-minute display. Money for the show will come out of occupancy tax funds. […]
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Warren Judge, a Dare County commissioner, apologized to Hyde County Monday night for voting to approve the concept of tolling the Hatteras ferry. “I own the vote,” Judge told the commissioners in person when he attended the Commissioners meeting Nov. 2 in Swan Quarter about the action that the Dare body took Oct. 19 unbeknownst […]
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An effort to seek a toll on the Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry is off the table for now, Hyde County manager Bill Rich confirmed Friday. Wednesday night, at the monthly Ocracoke Civic and Business Association meeting, Rich had reported that the N.C. Ferry Division would ask the Albemarle Regional Planning Organization (RPO) to approve tolling visitors on […]
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Ocracoke’s day of reckoning may be at hand as early as Wednesday when the Regional Planning Organization may vote to toll the Hatteras Ferry. That’s what Bill Rich, Hyde County manager, announced tonight at the Ocracoke Civic and Business Association meeting in the Community Center. “The bottom line is there is going to be a toll […]
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North Carolina Ferry Division officials at the monthly meeting on Ocracoke Monday talked more about the potential for passenger ferry service to the island from Hatteras. Jed Dixon, deputy ferry division director, who stressed that nothing has been decided, said that the feasibility study being done by Volkert, Inc., is expected to be done in […]
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