The Grove Project

Man’s courage is characterized by short, intentional acts, women’s by long periods of suffering

Star News “Zvents”

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 […]

Downtown Wilmington “Vagrants,” Ontologically Speaking

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 […]

Port City Cynic

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 GP readers are searching for

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

Wilmington to host a megachurch

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.)

Help with the Wilmington Pedestrian Master Plan

A post from Star News blogger Stacie Green Hidek:

You have just one more week to participate in a survey to help Wilmington develop a pedestrian plan. The survey will be available online through March 17. It should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.
For more information on the project ,visit the Wilmington Metropolitan Planning […]

Small update to site

Hi all - I just updated the look of the site a little.
Wanted something slightly more compact and iconic for all the GP press kits, t-shirts and bumper stickers.
Feedback welcome. -ed.

Questions surround Czech man nabbed with blue lights

From Charlotte.com, by way of the the wire:

A Czech man remained in the Gaston County jail Monday as questions piled up around him.
Why does he have pornographic pictures of young men who appear to be teenagers on his laptop computer?
Why has he entered and left the United States seven times since 1999?
Why did he have […]

Inside910.com

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!