Press release:
THE ANDROID GATHERING INVADES WILMINGTON ON AUGUST 28
What: A free Android OS rally and conference, featuring door prizes, giveaways, consultations and expert-led breakout sessions, including:
Beginners Android OS for HTC Incredible owners
Beginners Android OS for Moto Droid and LG Ally owners
Beginners Android OS for Droid X owners
Favorite Android Market Applications
Android OS for the business [...]
The Grove Project is excited and proud to announce that our friends at WhatsOnWilmington.com have won this year’s Webbie award from Encore Magazine!
As I read recently in the Star News of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority’s decision to begin adding fluoride to the water being produced from the Ogden Plant, I couldn’t help but think of how non-controversial the article came across. Everyone in our area has heard of fluoride and its widely accepted use preventing cavities. But it’s just as controversial now as when municipalities began adding it to water in 1945.
Libertarians who complain so indignantly about the “usurpations” of government, the public sector, and UNCW – one of Squall Lines’ favorite targets – are like adolescents complaining about the food being served to them every night at their parents’ house, about the lumpiness of their unmade beds: Their arguments are coherent only if you and [...]
From Jack Spruill, a notice about the New Hanover County’s prescription drug turn-in event. Prescription drugs, hormones, and other things that get into our waters cause problems.
I want to be sure you know about this great opportunity to turn in our unneeded prescription drugs this Saturday in Wilmington.
Below is a link to information provided [...]
The “pilot” portion of the Wilmington Cross-City Trail– from South College Road to Halyburton Park, past Cameron Art Museum and up Independence toward Empie Park — is underway now, and it looks like it’s going to be a fantastic benefit for the region.
The Cross City Trail is an eight food wide path, alongside but [...]
Outsourcing, consolidation eyed as cash-strapped Tar Heel state looks to tech departments for savings, efficiencies.
Faced with a looming, $3 billion budget deficit, North Carolina is eyeing a major shakeup of its tech operations that could see the state outsource the bulk of its IT work to the private sector while consolidating other operations internally.
Exclusive: [...]
The Cape Fear Economic Development Council (CFEDC), which I’m involved with, is sponsoring a series of events on local projects that further economic development. The latest, on July 27th at 6PM at the WHQR Galleries, where we’ve sort of set up shop, is a presentation from the Feast for the Southeast people, who are trying [...]
From the Greater Wilmington Business Journal:
For the first time in the past six years, local public radio station WHQR 91.3fm, is in the black.
“We’ve lost money since 2004,” said Jeff Hunter, WHQR board chairman, to members and staff of the station at its annual meeting on June 30. “We’ll break even this year.”
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Wilmington’s midwife-advocacy group Where’s My Midwife? (WMM?) has gone national, reaching across state lines to share their blueprint for change. WMM?‘s president Kirstin Kreutzer and vice president Sylvia Santaballa were invited to present their case at the American College of Nurse-Midwives’ (ACNM) annual meeting held in Washington last month.
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