The best time to visit UNCW is Sunday morning when it’s practically a ghost town. The students are in slumberland, most employees are off, and the buildings are mute. It’s peaceful to wander around campus thinking what a buzz of activity it usually is.
It’s been nearly two years since our county commissioners offered Titan Cement 4.2 million of our tax dollars to build the fourth largest cement plant in the U.S. on the banks of the Cape Fear River. Since then, as the protest at the New Hanover County Courthouse this week showed, public opposition to this heavy [...]
I love cupcakes. Brownies are my favorite, but cupcakes are a close second. For a long time, to get a cupcake in Wilmington you had to head to one of the chain grocery stores or know someone with a killer recipe, and even then you were limited to the ordinary flavors: chocolate, vanilla, and the occasional variation on the theme.
There is a lot of talk in Wilmington about shopping locally. This is great, and when given the chance I always try to support local businesses. I do this because I understand that spending money locally will keep that money circulating locally longer, not to mention the fact that locally-owned service providers are usually well above par compared to larger chain stores. However, I am shocked at the extreme stances some Wilmingtonians are taking regarding the support of national and regional chain stores calling downtown Wilmington home.
If you’ve been following the Star News and Wilmington Business journal reporting on the local midwife/birth activist group Where’s My Midwife, then you know that yet another small group of thoughtful people have proved Margaret Meade’s touted theory. In only four months “Where’s My Midwife?” has succeeded in convincing the initially resistant, even adamant administrators at New Hanover County Regional Medical Center to change their policy requiring a supervisory obstetrician to be in the hospital during midwife-attended births. New Hanover County Regional Medical Center was the only hospital in the state operating under such an outdated, restrictive policy.
As the surfing fever grew in New Hanover County during the late fifties and early sixties, three surfing groups emerged. One was from the peninsular cities of southeastern New Hanover County (Carolina Beach, Wilmington Beach, Kure Beach, and Fort Fisher). A second group was from Wrightsville Beach. The third group was from greater New Hanover County.
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
It’s 9am on a rainy Saturday morning. While most of Wilmington is sleeping in, sipping coffee, or recovering from last night, I have just jumped from a fenced-off loading dock into a puddle of water and now find myself with wet socks in the cellar of an abandoned shipping terminal on N. Front Street.
Dressed in a fairly conspicuous lumberjack outfit, sporting corduroy pants, a thick flannel shirt, and heavy leather boots, I’m sure I look out of place pacing up and down a deserted urban street plotting the best place to jump a fence and explore a derelict area of the Cape Fear River just for the hell of it.
There has been much talk in the Wilmington area about economic development. One thing that seems to be overlooked is how our school districts affect this issue. School districts are one of the first things that companies and families look at when planning to move to a new area.
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