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From the Beach to the Hall One of the newest members of the Greater Wilmington Sports Hall of Fame (GWSHOF) is former Wrightsville Beach resident and former professional golf standout Bruce Fleisher. His family moved to the beach in 1957. He was a pitcher for the town’s Little League team and bodysurfed with his brothers.…
Read MorePickleball Whiffs its Way Into Wilmington
You hear the players before you see them. On any given day at one of the county’s public tennis courts it’s likely you will catch a chorus of distinctive hollow rounded notes produced when thick paddles meet perforated plastic balls. The sport is pickleball. It’s been around since the summer of 1965 when a politician…
Read MoreThe Love of Fishing
A friend called and said come see this amazing new boat. An offer to spend a couple of hours out of the office on a sunny spring day is too good to pass up so before long the crew is flying down the Intracoastal Waterway south from Wrightsville Marina. The 38-foot sportfish with triple 300…
Read MoreGettysburg National Military Park
A great summer destination as the nation turns 241 years old this July 4 is a guided tour of Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The park contains 3 965 acres of battlefields in and around the town of Gettysburg where 165 000 Southern and Northern soldiers met over a period of three days in…
Read MoreComplex Art and a Fascinating Life
Dennis Schaefer has served in the military and been a magazine editor and writer psychotherapist corporate man law student and a martial arts teacher achieving a fourth-degree black belt. He has lived in many places visited several others learned Chinese and taught himself quantum physics. He has set a goal to run 50 miles and…
Read MoreRain Gardens
Rain gardens prevent stormwater from running into and polluting surrounding waterways.
Read MoreFace to Face
Meet some of coastal North Carolina’s dedicated spearfishermen who take pride in hunting for fish strategically with no bycatch.
Read MoreUnderwater Museum
The shipwreck of a Civil War-era blockade runner Condor just off Fort Fisher is the state’s first heritage dive site.
Read MoreHealing Trees
While the Medac building’s unique fa�ade a mix of patina copper panels and glass has become a landmark in the Porters Neck area the medical building’s interior architecture truly created something special for the practices — an intimate and warm commercial interior infused with nature and natural daylight rather than a typically sterile environment. “We…
Read MoreHealth boosters
Yogurt & sauerkraut. Tempeh & kimchi. Miso & kefir. They come from different parts of the world — Europe Asia the Middle East — and are made from different base foods — milk cabbage soybeans. But this seemingly disparate group shares something in common. All are fermented foods touted for their health benefits. Fermented foods…
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