FERRY UPDATE: Ocracoke residents and vendors to have priority Dare County’s decision to allow visitors on southern Hatteras Island through Ocracoke via the ferries from Cedar Island and Swan Quarter has created an enormous demand for ferry reservations, especially on the weekends. And the demand for reservation has created issues with vital services and vendors […]
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Many Ocracoke businesses are unhappy with Dare’s visitor re-entry decision By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH While Ocracoke residents and business owners are sympathetic to Hatteras Island’s plight in the wake of Hurricane Irene, many are not happy with Dare County’s decision to allow visitors back to the southern villages via Ocracoke. […]
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Visitors can return to Ocracoke after 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7
Visitors can return to Ocracoke after 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7 The Hyde County commissioners Tuesday night lifted the state of emergency in the county as of Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 5 p.m., allowing the return of visitors on Ocracoke Island at that time. The decision followed discussion as to the best day for re-entry […]
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Ocracoke bachelors go on the auction block for a good cause
Ocracoke bachelors go on the auction block for a good cause By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH Women of all ages got to be rowdy during the second annual Bachelor Auction on Aug. 8 to benefit Ocracoke’s community radio station, WOVV 90.1 FM. More than 50 women vied during the three-hour event […]
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The destination is 240 feet under the Atlantic Ocean. The place is the wreck of oil tanker the E.M. Clark, sunk in 1942 by a German U-boat 25 miles southwest of Ocracoke. It’s “the cherry on top” among diving professionals, because it’s so large, so deep, but mostly so intact, gushed Joseph Hoyt, a maritime […]
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Security screeners are at work at the ferry docks
Those yellow-shirted folks at the ferry docks asking for your identification are doing the job the Coast Guard requires them to do—security screening of a certain percentage of cars using the ferry.
Charging a toll for Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry under discussion in Raleigh
UPDATE: It’s now final – free Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry will stay free By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH With the North Carolina House and Senate override of Gov. Bev Perdue’s budget veto, Ocracokers are assured that the free ferry between Hatteras and Ocracoke will remain free. Republicans, who control the state legislature for […]
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Ocracoke School graduates nine
By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH It’s not every day that the person who cuts your hair is your high school commencement speaker. But then, Ocracoke isn’t like anywhere else. It’s a place where the person who cuts your hair can get to know you almost as well as your parents. Susie […]
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Charging a toll for Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry under discussion in Raleigh
UPDATE: Ocracokers win another round in keeping tolls off Hatteras Inlet ferry By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH Ocracoke Island has apparently won the fight to keep tolls off the Ocracoke-Hatteras ferry. In the budget unveiled Tuesday, May 31, by the North Carolina State Senate Appropriations Committee, exemptions for tolls for both […]
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No fireworks for Hatteras or Ocracoke, but there will be July 4 celebrations
No fireworks for Hatteras or Ocracoke, but there will be July 4 celebrations By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN There will be no fireworks again this year on Hatteras and Ocracoke islands, but there will be celebrations of the July 4 holiday. In past years, fireworks were a tradition in the villages […]
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