Ocracoke News

Posted: Today at 10:01 a.m. Updated: Today at 5:42 p.m. RODANTHE, N.C. - Gov. Bev Perdue declared a state of emergency Monday for Dare County to help residents there get financial help to clean up after recent flooding.

The closure of Highway 12 on the Outer Banks due to high water has prompted officials to enact emergency ferry runs.

Since 2003, Smith has been the "answer person" for LinkLine, a 24-hour service provided by Lenoir Memorial Hospital and partially funded by the Lenoir-Greene United Way.

The NC Department of Transportation's Ferry Division announced Monday it is activating the Stumpy Point-Rodanthe route for emergency purposes.

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Water from Pamlico Sound continues to push its way across Ocracoke. School closed after about two hours this morning.

We're now getting patches of sunshine and it's a warm, muggy 70 degrees. Tommy at the Variety Store reports that the food delivery and newspaper trucks got through so Highway 12 is open.

Ocracoke Preservation Society holds its annual Fall Meeting this Tuesday, November 10 at 6:00 at the Community Center.

Greetings from Bill: Friday night, an enthusiastic crowd gathered at Deepwater Theater for a delightful "read and sing" through the musical "A Tale of Blackbeard" which was performed nine of the 20 years between 1974 and 1994.

Tonight at 7:30 at the Deepwater Theater, everyone is invited to sing along to the grand old Ocracoke original musical, "A Tale of Blackbeard". Julie Howard, who wrote it, is on the island and will play the piano for us as former cast members, audience members and people who never saw it but have heard so much about it, enjoy this unrehearsed ...

The Down East FolkArts Society Series will present a band next week that has been called one of Ocracoke Island's favorites.

The third annual OcraFolk School got underway Sunday evening with a dinner at the Pony Island Restaurant.

We have just published our latest Ocracoke Newsletter, a letter written by C. A. Weslager after a visit to Ocracoke Island in 1949.

Donald Austin ended his 35-year career with the North Carolina Ferry Division with something he'd never done before -- rescuing people on a sinking boat.

Last April, the renowned art educator and University of Iowa professor Steve McGuire was asked to introduce his colleague Rachel Williams, who received the 2009's Jean Y. Jew Women's Rights Award.

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One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Southern fiction belongs to a writer who was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago and spent most of her adult life in the urban Northeast.

It is an interesting wreck because, unlike most commercial vessels of the time which hauled lumber, molasses, rum, or some other single commodity, the "Pioneer" was carrying general cargo.

I am sorry to report that Ann Scarborough, who just celebrated her 100th birthday on October 5, died three days ago, after a fall.

Sometimes journalists, newscasters, and others will describe Ocracoke as a "resort community." It is not.