The North Carolina Arts Council has launched an online public survey to gather the opinions of New Hanover County and Wilmington-area residents on the role of the arts in the area and the importance of an arts council to the region.
The arts council seeks participants to complete the three-page online survey from now until March [...]
Press release from the city of Wilmington:
Beginning today, the city has opened a hotline for citizens to report
stormwater pollution. The hotline is another way the city is raising
awareness of the city’s new stormwater regulations, which went
into effect in November, 2009.
The new regulations outline what should not be discharged into the storm
drainage system, [...]
A press release from an organization being formed to bring law enforcement groups together around environment crimes. Interesting.
RALEIGH – The Honorable Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney
General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,
Department of Justice; the Honorable George E.B. Holding, United
States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina; Stacey
H. Mitchell, Chief of the Environmental [...]
The new Mugshots app on Star News online site is gross. You can’t go all high-minded and Fourth Estate in one day’s letter from the editor — as editor Robyn Tomlin did in her don’t-cry-for-us-journalists piece a week or so ago, in which she patted the paper on the back for the good job they [...]
From a Grove Project reader
Wilmington, please come out to ‘Green Drinks” at Kefi on Thursday
night where people who are interested in environmental issues meet
casually for a few drinks and to discuss and learn about eco-concious
topics. This weeks speaker is the Sierra Club president of the
Chesapeake Bay Chapter. Casual setting, drinks with fr…iends and a
way to [...]
A Grove Project reader wrote in about this interesting development downtown. Been thinking a lot about downtown recently (ex: Front Street improvements).
Dram Tree Park, just south of downtown on the water and underneath the bridge, is being fixed up: The launch facilities themselves are in need, but there’s some decontamination going on, and the result [...]
At an undisclosed location,…in an ancient, vacant house…an awesome and eccentric density of Santa Claus, Coca Cola, and doll memorabilia, most of them originals, from a former antique store owner. Private viewings only! We were lucky and amazed
Latest effort from the local and the mighty Eco Avengers:
Don’t miss the next Wilmington IT Infusion networking event — There are a lot of local “networking” events out there; this one is a good blend of nerdy and nice:
Wilmington IT Infusion » December Witi.
A special public affairs program about an issue we’ve raised here before (to little avail) is being held Thursday night at 6:30 PM on WHQR:
New Hanover County Commissioners are looking at possibly turning the county landfill and waste-to-energy facility over to private industry. So far, there has been no place for public input, and little [...]
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