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27 women arm wrestle on Ocracoke for a title and a good cause …..WITH SLIDE SHOW By CONNIE LEINBACH
UPDATE: Ocracokers are in shock about Republicans’ renewed effort to put tolls on Hatteras Inlet ferry By CONNIE LEINBACH
By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH Democratic state Sen. Stan White wants the North Carolina Republican Senate leadership to tell him the difference between enacting and raising ferry tolls along the coast and the Senate’s desire not to raise taxes. White was talking in a late-afternoon interview after Wednesday’s Senate session, during which his budget […]
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Hyde County Hotline, the nonprofit agency based in Swan Quarter, recently opened Tapestry, a Studio on Ocracoke. It is a retail operation for Hotline’s recycle project business model. Proceeds from the shop/studio fund Hotline’s crisis intervention and advocacy services to victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence in Hyde County. Based on the successful […]
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By CONNIE LEINBACH
Hyde County Hotline, the nonprofit agency based in Swan Quarter, recently opened Tapestry, a Studio on Ocracoke. It is a retail operation for Hotline’s recycle project business model. Proceeds from the shop/studio fund Hotline’s crisis intervention and advocacy services to victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence in Hyde County. Based on the successful […]
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Ocracoke School graduates seven students By CONNIE LEINBACH
By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH The seven 2012 Ocracoke School students who graduated Sunday night, June 10, are going into the world with buckets full of encouraging notes from the Ocracoke community. The idea asking the audience to write personal notes to the graduates came from the keynote speaker Laura Burgess Miller of Charleston, […]
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Another great Ocrafolk Festival showcases ‘the spirit of Ocracoke’ …..WITH SLIDE SHOW By CONNIE LEINBACH
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Hyde County budget call for six-cent tax increase By CONNIE LEINBACH
By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH A $600,000 shortfall in revenues to cover expenses has forced the Hyde County commissioners to propose a tax increase of six cents for the 2012-13 budget year. Mazie Smith, Hyde County manager, presented the budget plan at the May 21 commissioner’s meeting and stressed that her department heads have […]
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Saving the shoreline at Springer’s Point on Ocracoke ….WITH SLIDE SHOW By CONNIE LEINBACH
About 20 volunteers were happy to do something for Ocracoke by planting marsh grasses Friday, May 18, at Springer’s Point on Ocracoke for a Coastal Land Trust project. Springer’s Point, at the end of Loop Road, is part of a 122-acre nature preserve owned by the trust. About 300 feet of eroded coastline is the […]
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Lobbyists rally support for no ‘ferry tax’ Governor aiming to block ferry toll increases Hyde County is gearing up to take on legislators over ferry tolls Ocracokers turn out in force to oppose increase in ferry tolls
British Cemetery ceremony is smaller this year, but still solemn ….WITH SLIDE SHOW By CONNIE LEINBACH
An abbreviated ceremony at the British Cemetery on Ocracoke remembering the sinking of the British trawler HMT Bedfordshire off the coast during World War II went off smoothly today under clear, sunny skies. This 70th anniversary of the sinking on May 11, 1942, almost was canceled because Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry service has been suspended for much […]
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