The Grove Project

Commuter Challenge Kick-off today, 5PM Council Chambers

Ahoy, All Ye Landlubbers–

Join Yer Captain and Crewmates and Find Yer Lost Treasure
during the 2nd Annual Commuter Challenge (Sept. 15-Oct. 17)
Change Yer Commute, Get Some Loot! But First–

Clyde Edgerton Reading at Pomegranate Books!, Thurs. Sept 4 @ 7PM

Local bookstore Pomegranate Books is celebrating the release of local author and UNCW professor Clyde Edgerton’s new novel.
The Bible Salesman tells the story of criminal Preston Clearwater and hitch-hiking bible salesman Henry Dampier. As adventure and hilarity ensue, Dampier starts to question the life he leads, one that will be changed forever.
Clyde Edgerton is a […]

Labor Day Trash Pick-up on Masonboro

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 […]

Betsy Ervin

Our great friend Betsy Ervin died August 22nd, 2008.
We love you Betsy, Don, and Willa - from us.

I know you play music, but what do you WEAR?

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 […]

Mom’s body in freezer

“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 […]

Titan to host community information workshops

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 […]

Not your father’s anarchy

Cool crew quietly cleans mountains of junk from Masonboro

Cliff Cash, who owns Green Coast Recycling and participates with me in the Stop Titan project, is such a mensch! Dude went with his buddy Captain Jack, who runs one of those party pontoons you see around here in the summer, and cleaned 1400 pounds of trash off the party side of Masonboro Island the […]

State Officials Recall Jalapenos and Avocados for Salmonella

RALEIGH – Results of ongoing disease and food investigations conducted by state public health and state agriculture officials have triggered a recall of jalapeno peppers and avocados distributed in North Carolina. Two samples from a food distributor tested positive for salmonella.
The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) has asked a […]