SURF CITY — Mayor Doug Medlin responded to recent remarks made by Councilman Jeremy Shugarts that the town’s planning board had “rubber-stamped” the initial approval of the Surf City Crossing apartment complex, a move Shugarts said represented a “broken system” of development planning.
Read MoreTwo operators run the county’s only water treatment plant, earning a combined $84,000 from the county; adding two more positions would double the county’s water capacity. Nearly 40 days into a water shortage in the east, one commissioner said he was unaware of such a solution; another said she regrets the mismanagement of the water department.
Read MoreWILMINGTON — Before the gaming industry was taken over by computers, game consoles, and smartphones, there was a time when families would gather around Monopoly boards and roll dice, trade, fight, and extort each another.
Read MoreBURGAW — Months of public pressure came to a head last night as the Pender County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to spend $600,000 on the removal of hurricane debris along private unpaved roads in the county.
Read MoreWILMINGTON — The city’s craft beer industry keeps booming as one of the 18 breweries in the region prepares to quadruple production, eyeing statewide distribution by 2020.
Read MoreBURGAW — Weeks of ambiguity concerning whether Pender County will remove debris from private, unpaved roads was resolved Monday night when a motion to fund debris collection failed at the County Commissioners meeting.
Read MorePENDER COUNTY — As the sun began to set Wednesday in the rural river town of Currie, North Carolina, a Charlotte Fire Department crew was staked out at the flood line on Borough Spur Road, near the Moores Creek confluence with the Black River.
Read MoreCAROLINA BEACH — Carolina Beach residents lined up hundreds of cars deep before passing through a police barricade on the north end of Snow’s Cut bridge to return to their homes earlier this week.
Read MoreWILMINGTON — In the middle of the darkness that has come over downtown Wilmington in recent days, an old, seasoned bar owner with a thick Belarusian accent kicked on the generator, lit the candles, and opened his doors to those who had ridden out the storm.
Read MoreWILMINGTON — As Hurricane Florence intensified and continued its course toward the southeastern U.S. coast on Monday, residents of Wilmington were doing everything they could to prepare for an expected life-threatening coastal storm surge and flooding.
Read MoreWILMINGTON — This week’s photo series takes you right into the heart of Philadelphia Eagles country at the famous Copper Penny bar in downtown Wilmington.
Read MoreWILMINGTON — For Nick Hiteshew, owner of Wilmington NC Taxi, it’s only a matter of time before traditional taxi operations are run out of town by ride-sharing drivers from Uber and Lyft – and the city is doing little to stop it.
Read MoreWILMINGTON — This week’s photo series explores the streets of downtown Wilmington on a Thursday night, from The Whiskey to the Pour House and all the live music in between.
Read MoreWILMINGTON — Eleven bands in Wilmington have joined together to produce an eclectic album called “One Perfect Summer” to benefit Surfers Healing, a charity that helps kids with autism learn how to surf in camps across the U.S.
Read MoreCAROLINA BEACH — A summer evening on a Thursday night in Carolina Beach is a spectacle: thousands of tourists holding ice cream cones and balloons along the boardwalk, the bright neon colors of the Ferris wheel and carnival rides flashing down on Canal Street, and beer drinkers on bar patios all over town watching the 9 p.m. fireworks show – the last one of the year is August 30th.
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