Carolina Beach approved the construction of a 191-room Hilton Garden Inn at the north end of the boardwalk, to be completed by 2010. While the town council approved the permit on Tuesday night, demolition to prepare space for the project began the next day. The Seaview Motel and Kings Beachware building will be gone within two weeks.
In […]
We were contacted by a website the other day with what looks like a good idea:
Inside910.com is a search engine that registers only local websites and services, and then makes them available google style in a simple search bar.
They’ve found and registered Grove Project and I’ve verified that it crawls the content here.
Good stuff!
Conventional wisdom says North Carolina will be the last refuge for smokers. No way will the state institute a ban on smoking in public places like restaurants, bars and bowling alleys. Not on Tobacco Road, the land of Winston and Salem and Duke University, named for the father of tobacco industrialist James B. Duke.
But there […]
Star News Business Reporter Judy Royal started a useful thread in the Star News forums with a query about wi-fi in the Wilmington area. I think she’s writing an article about laptop users (?)
It’s no secret the journalism industry is in dire straits. Looks like Star-News readers are in for more wire stories:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080215/NEWS/802150335/0/news01
In the last few years my wife and I have shunned movie-going in favor of the convenience, low-cost, solitude and vast selection of Netflix. Just the other day we broke that practice in order to see Juno, which is funny and different, at the Carmike Cinema 16 on Cinema Drive. Sharing the theatre with 8 […]
From Wilmington’s Downtown Business Alliance website, which features events and services for promoting business in downtown Wilmington:
The Downtown Business Alliance is set out to unite, promote and support businesses in downtown Wilmington, NC. We are very proud of downtown Wilmington and we’re hoping this site will help you get around and keep up to date […]
Though the pharmaceutical company might not look too kindly on it, there’s a prominent mention of Wilmington’s own PPD in the Jan. 7 issue of The New Yorker.
It seems that Big Pharma companies have been hiring people to take experimental drugs — and paying handsomely for it — for several years now. It used […]
Perhaps inspired by the success of Harris Teeter, Lowe’s Foods and Fresh Market, word is out that Wilmington area Food Lion stores will feature great improvements in 2008. Some stores may even be converted into Blooms, which is a Food Lion brand store that features upscale goods and a wider variety of items. Typically, “renewed” […]
Love, betrayal, millions of dollars in the balance, and a guy living in a turkey coop! This is better than fiction.
Everything you wanted to know about Burt’s Bees and its recent purchase by Clorox, which we wrote about here a couple of months ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06bees.html
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