When I got home on Tuesday I could hear the music at Legion Stadium in the distance. It was sunny and warm outside, and nothing makes watering the garden more fun than the common 80’s montage you get with minor league baseball. O you know, a little Bon Jovi circa big-hair and Alan Jackson twanging […]
Concerned About The Air You Breathe? Or the Water you Drink? Come to the next New Hanover County Commissioner’s meeting on Monday, June 2, at 6 pm at the historic New Hanover County Courthouse at 24 North 3rd St. in downtown Wilmington, and let your presence be known! Several experts from the medical, academic, and […]
Ann Wright is a pretty remarkable woman, what with 13 years of service in the Army/Army reserves and 16 as a diplomat in U.S. embassies as diverse as Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She retired from the Army with the rank of Colonel and in 2001 volunteered to re-open the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Like many Americans, she […]
Known as the sport for a lifetime, tennis directly impacts a person’s health and quality of life. That’s a cheeseball cliché taken from some geeky tennis website, but one that is true for thousands of dedicated Wilmingtonians.
We had someone else’s paper delivered to us this morning in a rain sleeve. I’m glad we did. We’re about to resubscribe to the paper after a long period of thinking it’s just too much paper, especially with no curb-side recycling in our area (yet; we’re working on it).
There’s an interesting, high-level editorial from Thomas […]
With all the recent news coming to the surface regarding the toxicity of Bisphenol-A(BPA)– a chemical used in hard plastics such as water bottles, baby bottles, and other consumer goods– I’ve decided to trade in my beautiful, yellow, 32 oz Nalgene water bottle for a slightly less-sexy but dependably non-leaching stainless steel model.
There have been […]
Even those of us who don’t live in “a flaming hot pink bungalow beside the steamy jungle-o” can still enjoy the spectacle of a flock of flamingoes from the comfort of our own homes.
I want to draw special attention to the article Catherine Welch, news director of WHQR, recently posted on the news wire: “Titan Cement Meeting in Hamstead”.
Titan Cement is being wooed by New Hanover County Commisioners to build a giant cement plant in Castle Hayne. While new industry and jobs are good for the community, a […]
I read about some shifting around and maybe folding of the Fourth Friday Gallery, and now see good news confirmed in an email newsletter from Bottega:
Fourth Friday Gallery Nights Return! Friday May 23rd; Join us for a self-guided tour of downtown galleries, studios and more, every fourth Friday of every month throughout the year. Bottega, […]
RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Transportation plans to close lanes on the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in Wilmington, which carries U.S. 17 Business/76/421 across the Cape Fear River, for repairs beginning Tuesday, May 27.
The majority of lane closures will take place through Friday, Aug. 15; however, additional closures will be necessary for several weeks […]
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