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• New hotline open to prevent stormwater pollution

  Press release from the city of Wilmington:

  Beginning today, the city has opened a hotline for citizens to report
  stormwater pollution. The hotline is another way the city is raising
  awareness of the city’s new stormwater regulations, which went
  into effect in November, 2009.
  The new regulations outline what should not be discharged into the storm
  drainage system, [...]

• Third Annual Breakfast with your Legislators

  Please remember to put the Breakfast with your Legislators to be held April 20, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. at the Burney Center, UNC-Wilmington on your calendar. The free public breakfast spnsored by the Star News, Time Warner Cable, UNC-Wilmington, Council of Neighborhood Associations, WAAV Radio and CBS-10 WILM, is free to the public [...]

• Honoring Martin Luther King jr.

  Wilmington parade and march: Begins at noon today, Fifth Avenue and Castle Street. Lineup begins at 10 a.m. The parade will end at 13th and Church streets, followed by a step show and health fair.
  Find more events in the area to celebrate the MLK jr. holiday at:
  http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080121/NEWS/801210344/-1/RSS

• For the literary political junkie

  Great “Catcher in the Rye” political satire in the Washington Post today. Check out http://blog.washingtonpost.com/stumped/?hpid=opinionsbox1

• An artistic visionary for the city: Q&A with Ruth Funk

  My Wilmington magazine profile of Ruth Funk, head of the Alliance for a Regional Concert Hall (archwilmington.org), looks like it was just published.
  Ruth Funk just laughs dismissively when her husband Frank says she is the world’s foremost authority on performance halls. But she may be. As she describes what a larger, high-quality venue would bring [...]

• New Hanover County voting

  From Star News columnist Chris Mazzolini’s (resuscitated?) blog:

  NEW HANOVER COUNTY
  Outside of Wilmington, the only New Hanover County voters heading to the polls today are those in the three beach towns. The mayors’ races in Wrightsville Beach and Kure Beach are uncontested, but there’s a heated battle in Carolina Beach where two town council members want [...]

• Drought Central

  Not sure about where you live, but there are a smattering of folks in my neighborhood that are still watering their lawns, another instance of inconsiderate behavior that we’ve cited before. Now at least I can warn them about losing a few Benjamins. This is from WECT:
  WILMINGTON — The warning period for violating Wilmington’s mandatory [...]

• War and taxpayers’ money

  Today’s paper states that Liddy Dole voted in favor of a bill that includes a $250,000 grant for UNCW’s School of Nursing. Her esteemed colleague, Sen. Richard Burr, however, voted against the bill because it contained $9 billion over what the president originally requested. A Burr spokesman said one of his boss’s “responsibilities and highest [...]

• NC Smoking Ban?

  Although we live on Tobacco Road, there’s no reason North Carolina cannot join the many sensible states that have gone smoke-free. My trip to New Orleans last week was pleasant in many ways, not least because the entire state last January adopted a ban on smoking in restaurants and other public places. If you check [...]

• N.C. sustainability awards

  From the Star News blogs
  Sustainable North Carolina has named 11 organizations as finalists for its sixth annual North Carolina Sustainability Awards. Winners, who have demonstrated leadership in environmental stewardship and social responsibility, will be named at the awards presentation and conference Monday at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill.
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