We hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful island, the last island of the Outer Banks, N.C. Ocracoke is the southernmost island of the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Ocracoke, in Hyde County, is very ...

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Anyone who has visited the shores of the Outer Banks for more than a season has certainly seen the dramatic changes that occur across these narrow deposits of sand. The changes in these shifting sands ...

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Tim Barnette sets up the Tekniam wireless network on the roof of the ballfield press box. Photo: C. Leinbach The Tekniam ...

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C. Leinbach From our news services HATTERAS – Under a new state law, vendors serving Ocracoke Island who want priority loading on the N.C. Ferry System’s ...

For Ocracoke news, click here. By Connie Leinbach Vendors to Ocracoke have been purchasing passes to get into the priority loading lane for Ocracoke docks since Jan.

Jeff Beane and Stephanie Horton are regulars for the Ocracoke and Portsmouth Christmas Bird Counts. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer By Peter Vankevich This headline? Thomas Hardy is author of ...

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