This from the Cape Fear chapter for the Surfrider Foundation, maybe inspired by a story we linked to here earlier about an earlier cleanup (Cool crew cleans mountains of junk on Masonboro).
Reducing Trash on Masonboro Island
If you have some spare time this holiday weekend, please volunteer it towards this effort. We are passing on this […]
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ian on August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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The first concert at Greenfield Lake’s new amphitheatre did not go off without glitches. It’s safe to say, however, that most people left the venue content and inspired by Tift Merritt’s tight set of country rock tunes.
The day didn’t start so well. As opening act Chatham County Line played its harmonizing neo-bluegrass, the crowd baked […]
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Ranald on August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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To an impressionable young man, there is something remarkably fantastic about visiting a barbershop for the first time.
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gordon on August 25, 2008 | Posted in
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The Front Street Inn couldn’t be better.
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ian on August 23, 2008 | Posted in
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Our great friend Betsy Ervin died August 22nd, 2008.
We love you Betsy, Don, and Willa - from us.
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Anyone catch the major Puff Piece on Tift Merritt in today’s S-N? A Q&A written in the first person, it features lots of exclamation points as if it was written by a 13-year-old girl (and maybe it was), plus riveting questions like:
“Are you someone who uses the same purse all the time or are you […]
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“This would rank up there as one of the more bizarre calls that I’ve ever received in my 10 years with the district attorney’s office,” New Hanover DA Ben David said of this story, in which the mother of a man whose body was discovered three days ago, dispatched apparently by natural causes, is discovered […]
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ian on August 14, 2008 | Posted in
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Carolinas Cement Company (Titan) to host three community information workshops in September and October
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
CONTACT:
Kate McClain
Corporate Communications
kmcclain@titanamerica.com
(757) 858-6517
WILMINGTON, N.C. - Carolinas Cement Company will host three community
information workshops this fall, announced Kate McClain, corporate
communications manager for Titan America LLC. Carolinas Cement Company is
undergoing due diligence to receive state and federal permits for […]
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ian on August 12, 2008 | Posted in
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I wonder how lame the movie reviews in Encore Magazine can get. Have you even made it through a piece by Anghus Houvouras? This week, for example, is supposedly devoted to Will Farrell’s new flick, Step Brothers. You’d never know it, though, because Fungus has keyboard diarrhea for seven paragraphs and a review of the […]

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ian on August 8, 2008 | Posted in
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