Local News

Plunging for a Good Cause A few hundred people will assemble at Wrightsville Beach on Jan. 1 to celebrate the New Year by taking a dip in the chilly ocean. The Wrightsville Plunge is a charity event to benefit Communities In Schools of Cape Fear. Participants pay $25 for the privilege of running into the…

Read More

Plan A was expansion and renovation. Rich and Monika Williams Landfall residents bought the contemporary home at the waterfront end of their street intending to redo it into a traditional. But after nine months of dealing with complicated and restrictive flood zone regulations and struggling with the remodel’s blueprints they realized it wasn’t going to…

Read More

Carrot tops cauliflower leaves broccoli stems onion skins potato peels and watermelon rinds once destined for the garbage disposal or trash now could be the inspiration behind your next meal. The root-to-stem movement is inspiring cooks to turn those carrot tops into pesto and that tired bunch of greens in the crisper into soup rather…

Read More

The Taste of Wrightsville Beach culinary competition featured delicious dishes from the
restaurants of the island and surrounding areas.

Read More

Essential oils are increasingly popular as natural alternatives to conventional products and medicines.

Read More

Wrightsville Clerk Honored By State and Town Wrightsville Beach town clerk Sylvia Holleman received the highest possible honor from her peers in August when the North Carolina Association of Municipal Clerks awarded her as Clerk of the Year for 2017. The town followed suit on Nov. 3 recognizing Holleman for her award and her 26…

Read More

The fourth annual U.S. Open Fat Bike Beach Championship scheduled for March 17 on the beach outside the Blockade Runner features a few new bumps this year.

Read More

Tony Butler well remembers his first exposure to Wrightsville Beach surfing culture. “I was a 13-year-old country boy who had just moved to the beach ” he says. “I walked into this surf shop and this voice comes out of nowhere and says ‘Let me know if I can help with anything.’” The voice belonged…

Read More

Running more than 30 miles through the swampy woods on a chilly January morning might not seem like the ideal way to spend a Saturday. But Michelle Fogle wouldn’t want to do anything else. Fogle plans to be among the runners competing in Wilmington’s Southern Tour Ultra on Jan. 13. In its third year the…

Read More

Nissa Amaro sits comfortably in Susan Folk’s living room with her legs pulled up in an armchair while Folk and her husband Norm sandwich their dog on the couch across the room. Folk is talkative and expressive and Amaro is quiet and reflective yet they make a complementary combination. Their friendship is evident as they…

Read More