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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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.)
News wire
