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Mixed sales bag for local merchants during flotilla and holiday weekend
The culmination of the Thanksgiving holiday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and the North Carolina Holiday Flotilla brings thousands of additional visitors to Wrightsville...
City finalizes convention center hotel land sale
City of Wilmington officials finalized the land sale for a $33.6 million Embassy Suites Hotel adjacent to the Wilmington Convention Center. Wilmington Mayor Bill...
Cato ushers in Thanksgiving
Surfers took advantage of great waves and balmy weather Tuesdsay, Nov. 25, but by Wednesday a cold front associated with winter storm Cato moved...
Transportation bond rollout months away
City of Wilmington residents may have approved the Wilmington Streets and Sidewalks bond in the Nov. 4 election but physical signs of work on...
City police pay and staffing addressed in retreat
Wilmington Police Department patrol staffing levels and pay scale structures continue to be issues for which Wilmington City Council and city staff attempt to...
Coastal Federation invites community to deck its halls
For the North Carolina Coastal Federation’s first holiday season in the Fred and Alice Stanbeck Coastal Education Center, the organization is inviting the community...
New features, old friends gather for Hope from Helen’s tenth
Ten years ago Tony Butler asked a few friends to come together in support of his -mother’s battle with cancer and ten years later...
An enchanted tradition
At 67 acres of pristine lowlands, marshes, lakes, fields and forests, Airlie Gardens could already be considered an enchanting landscape. Every year for the...
Hometown Hires aims to break poverty
Connecting those stuck in chronic unemployment or intergenerational poverty to the employers that can help break that cycle is the mission of Hometown Hires,...
Coastal issues floated in conference
By Cole Dittmer, Emmy Errante and Miriah Hamrick
Staff Writers
The North Carolina Beach, Inlet and Waterway Association’s annual conference at the Blockade Runner Beach Resort...