The Hyde County ABC stores are in the black after years of deficits and mismanagement, thanks to Ocracoke islander Keith Parker-Lowe’s management. “The ABC stores are in the best shape they’ve been in in several years,” noted Bill Rich, Hyde County manager after the first part of a public hearing on the ABC’s budget June […]
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A test of a business’s value to its customers is when it’s not open, everyone hankers for it. That happened over the winter and spring as The Flying Melon restaurant, which had been along Highway 12 since 2006, decamped for the winter while a new building was built on Back Road. “When is the […]
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Summer has come to Ocracoke and none too soon for local business owners who have struggled through a winter of suspended — and longer — ferry rides and a cool spring. The streets and shops are again seeing more tourists, thanks, in part, to the resumed regular ferry run between Hatteras and Ocracoke, which returned […]
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Ocracoke School launched four seniors Sunday night during graduation ceremonies in the school gym. Valedictorian was Zackery Jordan “Jordy” Jenkins, who is a commercial fisherman and will attend the College of the Albemarle in the fall. He received $4,562 in scholarships, including one from the North Carolina Beach Buggy Association. Casey Camden Tolson was the […]
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The first tropical system of the season threatened, but Ocrafolk Festival organizers lucked out when Tropical Storm Andrea skirted Ocracoke after a drenching Thursday, leaving sunny weekend weather in its wake. “It was a great weekend,” said festival director David Tweedie, who also is the fiddler for Molasses Creek, festival hosts, about the Friday through […]
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Opposing forces are at work in the North Carolina General Assembly as the Senate tries to increase ferry tolls and add them to the ferries that are currently free and the House of Representatives works to remove tolls on all ferries or at least not raise them and keep the current free ferries. The House […]
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The Ocracoke pony herd welcomed a new member with the birth of Captain Marvin Howard, a colt born May 9 to the mare Jitterbug. The herd of Banker ponies, housed at the Ocracoke Pony Pen, now numbers 17, said Jocelyn Wright, lead biological science technician with the National Park Service on Ocracoke, which manages the […]
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Two weeks after state troopers were on Ocracoke during the Ocracoke Island Invitational Surf Fishing Tournament and passed out 59 tickets and 18 warnings, rumors are still circulating about the events of that weekend. Uniformly, islanders do not condone the vandalism of the two troopers’ cars early Saturday morning of that weekend and several have […]
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Ocracoke Island was in an uproar over the weekend when two state troopers made their presence known during a big tourist weekend that ended with the patrolmen’s cars getting vandalized. Troopers from Troop A, District 4 in Washington (Beaufort County) arrived on the island Wednesday and left Saturday morning, First Sgt. Brandon Craft said today. […]
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May is upon us, and the regular Hatteras-to-Ocracoke ferries still are not running because of an inadequate ferry channel. “It’s a mess,” noted Allen Burrus, a Dare County commissioner who has been actively working on the ferry channel problems. Rudy Austin, president of the Ocracoke Civic and Business Association and a former ferry captain, echoed […]
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