Speaking of camping on Masonboro Island, a group of us went on Saturday night and had to abort!
I’m not sure if we misread the signs or if the large-ish storm coming from the west kicked up something early, but around 9:30 at night — when we’d settled into the campfire and wine, a mild […]
Written by
ian on May 14, 2008 | Posted in
Living,
Talk |
3 Comments
Barack Obama campaign officials announced his visit to the Port City in a conference call Friday morning. Which would have made him the first presidential candidate to campaign publicly in Wilmington leading up to the primary. One day after this announcement, Hillary Clinton’s campaign officials announced that Hillary will visit the Port City on Sunday.
Hillary […]
Written by
rachel on April 26, 2008 | Posted in
News & Events,
Talk |
4 Comments
A friend of mine, Jack Viorel, has opened up a new surf school in the area, Indo Jax Surf School, that emphasizes giving back to the community. Indo Jax provides surf lessons and outreach to medically fragile inner city kids, breast cancer survivors, and others, gratis. Of course it also provides paid-for surf instruction for […]

Order yours from the Grove Project store at cafepress.com
Written by
editor on April 8, 2008 | Posted in
Talk |
Leave a comment

Written by
ian on April 5, 2008 | Posted in
Talk |
Leave a comment
It looks like the Star News, amidst of raft of other online changes, has rolled out a new local event platform, something called “Zvents” that aggregates, locates, and organizes local goings-on. Looks pretty nice.
I’ve been trying to get excited about eventful.com for the GP and for some software moonlighting I do. But the eventful […]
Written by
editor on April 4, 2008 | Posted in
Talk |
2 Comments
The issues brought to light in Downtown Wilmington: A vagrant’s paradise? reside in waters much deeper and murkier than a tourist’s observations can possibly shed light on (not to mention observations from one who comes to us from a city/state with one of the largest homeless populations in the world). It is no secret that […]
Written by
david on April 1, 2008 | Posted in
Issues & Opinion,
Living,
Talk |
1 Comment
Blogger William Lang joins the Cape Fear placeblogging crowd at Port City Cynic, a new, good-looking weblog about the area, also featuring a map of things.
Off to a good start with this little tidbit from the first post, about the South College Sandwich & Deli
…DO NOT try to get ranch AFTER they bring out your […]
Written by
editor on March 28, 2008 | Posted in
Talk |
2 Comments
News items have had users searching the Grove Project a lot in the last few days:
Silver alert: Man Missing In Wilmington In Need Of Medication Found Safe
Fatal helicoper crash: Video of helicopter crash scene
Fire destroys apartments off Kerr
Written by
editor on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
News & Events,
Talk |
2 Comments
Gareth McGrath writes about the construction of a new megachurch, Port City Community Church (PC3), in the College Acres neighborhood of Wilmington, between Eastwood and Market east of College:
Despite concerns, neighbors give big hello to megachurch
(From Si Cantwell’s news wrap-up.)
Written by
ian on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
News & Events,
Talk |
1 Comment