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Enter sandman: As deadline looms, Tim Owens seeks to improve Carolina Beach renourishment
Greater Wilmington Business Journal
August 4, 2008
Each time the tide goes out, it takes with it perhaps our most valuable natural resource: sands from our local beaches.
To offset this and to protect the homes and buildings near the shoreline from storm damage, every three or four years the local beach communities [...]
Wilmington women rebuilding in the Middle East
Wilma Magazine
August 2010
Photo courtesy of Dee Dee Fauser
The war-ravaged landscape of Kabul, Afghanistan may not be a hospitable destination, but for 52-year-old Dee Dee Fauser of Hampstead, it was the first place outside the U.S. that she had ever gone. Fauser, a paralegal with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Wilmington, saw the new [...]
Port City to dominate airwaves
Greater Wilmington Business Journal
January 22, 2010
Wilmington led the nation’s shift to digital television broadcast. Now, the Port City wants to blaze the trail into white space.
What is white space?
White space is a powerful, short wave length signal that can collect and transmit information through brick walls, groves of trees and [...]
Port City talent joins forces to boost tourism
Greater Wilmington Business Journal
January 22, 2010
“Good energy and action!” yelled local director Richard Leder on set while shooting the pilot episode of “Azalea Coast Living,” a new infomercial-style show to boost the region. An all-volunteer film crew with several cameras, professional lighting and sound gathered on set on Thursday, Jan. 14 to film the pilot [...]
Containers looking up
Greater Wilmington Business Journal
November 13, 2009
Photo courtesy of the N.C. State Ports Authority
Despite the economic downturn, the North Carolina Ports Authority has seen an increase this year in containers entering and exiting the Port of Wilmington.
About 7,447 more containers were unloaded and loaded onto container ships from July 1 to Sept. 30, 2009 compared to [...]
The fan at the law firm
MarketWatch
June 18, 2009
Photo courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fred von Lohmann’s love for music, film and art goes way beyond mere consumerism. Not only does he devote his life’s work to free expression, but he’s also a fan.
“Everybody who cares about art is a fan of something. Whatever that might [...]
Parents, teachers deal with back-to-school money crunch
Wilmington Star-News
July 31, 2008
Photo by Kate Lord/Wilmington Star-News
Seven-year-old Emma Tracy beelines to the baby blue Jansport backpack at Target when her mom, Jocelyne Tracy, asks her if she’s picked out a new bag for school. Tracy, a single, working mom, gingerly holds the price tag: $44.99. “What’s important is that [...]
Young mothers in New Hanover giving birth at younger ages
Wilmington Star-News
August 22, 2008
Photo by Kate Lord/Wilmington Star-News
Playing point guard on the New Hanover High School junior varsity basketball team and flitting around her big group of friends consumed most of 16-year-old Arielle Faulk’s time a year ago.
This year, everything changed. Arielle, a 5-foot-2-inch high school junior, is 37 weeks [...]
Cowboy Dreamin’
The Oakland Tribune
November 17, 2007
Backstage in the dressing room, the nervous energy was high as each cowboy primped before a vanity mirror. For some, like “Antonio Rios,” the nerves came from more than a little stage fright.
“‘Antonio Rios’ is 24,” said the worker from the avocado orchards of Michoacan, Mexico, [...]
Festival to unleash dance on public around New Hanover County
Wilmington Star-News
July 31, 2008
Photo courtesy of ALBAN ELVED
When dancer/choreographer Karola Luttringhaus left New York City to follow her husband to Wilmington, the Berlin-born performing artist had no intention of retreating into a quiet life by the sea. A month after she moved here, she launched a dance festival [...]
What’s for lunch? Gearing up for a healthy school year
Wilmington Star-News
July 29, 2008
Photo by Kate Lord/Wilmington Star-News
At lunch time at Eaton Elementary School in Wilmington, on the second day back to school, a group of fifth-graders are munching quietly on a choice of today’s school lunch menu options: bite-sized corndogs called corn puppies or cheesy chicken quesadillas.
Today’s side items are piled on as well: [...]
VIVA LA MUSICA! From the sounds of the heart-thumping cowbell to the country-western accordion, the Port City’s Latin music scene is beginning to reflect the diversity of its Latino community
Wilmington Star-News
August 27, 2008
It’s Saturday night at El Scorpion on Oleander Drive and about 250 people stream into the ranch-style building. Men pay $20 and women $10 to listen and dance to the upbeat, two-step style of music called Norteno. El Scorpion is the only nightclub in Wilmington to feature [...]