The Ocracoke Community Pool Association will hold a pickleball tournament on Saturday, May 3, at the new courts at the end of Horse Pen Road off Maurice Ballance Road. Games begin at 8:30 a.m. with ...

Rudy Leroy Austin, 83, a cherished native son of Ocracoke, North Carolina, peacefully passed away on April 17, 2025. He was the husband of Patricia Gibbs Austin. Born on February 3, 1942, he was a son ...

Hyde County will host a community outreach session about the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. This free workshop does not obligate you in any way to participate. Come learn how to access federal ...

History buffs might know that pigeons were used to carry military messages during World Wars I and II. Pigeons might be associated with evolution theorist Charles Darwin (1809-1882), who studied how ...

Editor’s note: The OCBA meeting scheduled for Tuesday, April 15, has been canceled. Information about contacting state legislators about the ferry system will be available at the next meeting at 6 p.m ...

Claudia Neal makes arepas during an Ocracoke Alive cultural event. Photo by Jeanne Brook “April is the cruelest month,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote in his epic poem “The Waste Land.” But not everyone ...

Movement is medicine, says Doug Schletz, one of four staffers of the Wounded Warrior Project guiding 10 military veterans who recently completed a bike ride on Ocracoke. The injured vets were getting ...

Another attempt by state lawmakers to add tolls to the currently free ferry routes along North Carolina’s coast is underway at the General Assembly. The North Carolina Senate is in the process of ...

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