Ocracoke School News Today

Seven month investigation into a deadly officerinvolved shooting. An officer killed kawaza beaty after he pointed a sawed off shotgun at police. 10 on your sides jason marks talked with beatys family who were disappointed at the investigation. Beatys family met with the commonwealths attorney this morning and he told them the shooting was justifed. They came out of that meeting very emotional as you can imagine. This is video of the family just after the meeting. They were sad yet angry at the s...

D.H. Conley High School has announced its new principal.T.J. Worrell will be the new principal effective July 1, 2024.Pitt County Schools Deputy Superintenden

Living on the Outer Banks “requires you to be very much in touch with weather and Mother Nature,” says commercial fisherman Vince O’Neal.

On Sept. 6, 2019, Hurricane Dorian pushed a seven-foot storm surge through the village, destroying almost the entire school and much of the village.

Ocracoke Islander Dr. Frederic Ballard Westervelt Jr., 91, died April 16.  He was the husband of Ernestine Meyer Henry Westervelt. Born June 11, 1931, at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., he was a son of the late Dr. Frederic Ballard Westervelt of the U.S. Army Medical Corps and Elizabeth Ziegler Westervelt.  He attended…

Michael Erskine Ehringhaus Ph.D., 76, died on April 30, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, Portland, Maine, after battling cancer since 2020. Michael E. Ehringhaus Born on May 11, 1946, in Charlotte, Ehringhaus graduated in 1971 with a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Fueled by his passion for teaching,…

The British Cemetery Ceremony. Photo: C. Leinbach Kevin Duffus to present "War Zone: When World War II was Fought off Ocracoke's Beaches" at 7 p.m. Friday, May 12, in the Ocracoke Community Center. The annual Ocracoke British Cemetery ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Friday, May 12, at the gravesite on British Cemetery Road.…

By Peter Vankevich Ann and Michael Ehringhaus, married at the time, were newly graduated English majors from UNC Chapel Hill in 1970. They heard about a school on the Outer Banks looking for teachers.  They found out it was Ocracoke School. Neither had been to the island. They traveled from Cedar Island for their interviews,…

Islander Scotty Robinson is the featured carver for this year’s Ocracoke Waterfowl Festival April 15 in the Berkley Barn. Photo: P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer By Peter Vankevich The Ocracoke Waterfowl Festival will be in its fifth year, but in a way, it’s into second generation. A founding principle of this event was to celebrate a featured…

A message in a bottle which was thrown in to the ocean by a high school senior in the US state of North Carolina in 2020 has been found on a beach in Portugal...