Fowler and Chloe O’Neal. Photo courtesy of the family. Chloe Ann O’Neal, 88, of Ocracoke passed away peacefully at home on June 21, 2025, surrounded by her family. Born April 4, 1937, on ...

C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer Monday, June 23:Ocracoke Oyster Company: Bryan Mayer, 7:30 pm Tuesday, June 24:Ocracoke Community Library: Open ...

If HB422 in the N.C. Legislature passes on Tuesday, the Ocracoke fish house will no longer have locally harvested shrimp. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer By Morty Gaskill As many of the ...

From our news services A weather pattern known as a “heat dome” is setting up over a large portion of the continental United States, and will bring dangerously hot conditions to the ...

Ocracoke Islanders Tom and Carol Pahl are on a trek around the United States (following 70-degree weather) and will report back from time to ...

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Raised on a farm in southern Virginia with horses, this childhood led to a lifelong love of animals, both domestic and wild. For many years, Garber lived on Ocracoke primarily as a writer, director of ...

C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer By Connie Leinbach If N.C. House Bill 442 passes today with a shrimp trawling ban amendment, fresh, local shrimp will be a ...