April 2024

One of the many events held during the annual Azalea Festival is the Cape Fear Garden Club’s Azalea Garden Tour, which features gardens in bloom for guests to walk through in a self-guided tour, including Airlie Gardens. It begins with a ribbon-cutting at the queen’s garden party and it’s a great to-do. Refreshments include the…

A variety of things can be seen at the New Hanover County Public Libraries: teenagers playing table tennis, a young girl reading to a therapy dog, sewing machines set up for a beginner’s sewing class, or someone exiting with a metal detector or weaving loom on loan. There are many reasons to celebrate the 21st-century…

By now, most of us realize that a Nigerian prince is not actually contacting us out of a dire need for a deposit to free up a larger sum. Similarly, the notion that the IRS or Amazon is sending an email may be a laughable idea. Of course, the scams were effective at one point,…