West End News

Before the wrecking ball, high-rise apartment buildings, and that "If you lived here you'd be home now'' sign, the West End was a thriving immigrant neighborhood.

Charlotte firefighters work to free trapped victims from an SUV that was crushed by a city sanitation truck Friday afternoon at the corner of West Boulevard and Billy Graham Parkway.

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul wins - hands down - the award for high irony with his speech to the West Galveston Island Property Owners Association.

Urban planners from around the world have taken notes from us You can't look it up in the dictionary yet, but "Vancouverism" has become a popular term in the lexicon of urban planning.

Before James Dean sported sneakers in 'Rebel Without a Cause,' South French Broad youth reveled without shoes in Aston Park.

The 2009 Miss Noel Scholarship Pageant, presented by the Sandhills Business and Professional Women's Organization, will be held at the Aberdeen Elementary School Auditorium at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov.4. Co-hostesses for the event are Charity Haskins, Miss Moore County 2010, and Katherine Kearns, Miss Moore County 2010 Outstanding Teen.

The proposed Pine Forest golf course development near West End attracted a stream of questions during the Thursday night meeting of the Moore County Plan-ning Board.

We did it again last weekend. On Halloween, while nobody was looking, my wife, Wendy, and I ran away from home.

The proposed Pine Forest development at West End attracted a stream of questions during the Thursday night meeting of the Moore County Planning Board, but no one voiced specific opposition.

Campus law enforcement is leaving nothing to chance this Halloween when it comes to safety.

Hamming it up for plastic Did you know that every second, 100 plastic bottles are thrown away in North Carolina? And that one in five plastic bottles doesn't get recycled? Those are just two reasons state legislators passed a bill that bans plastic bottles from landfills.

Three men convicted of dealing crack cocaine in Moore County have been sentenced to federal prison sentences.

Century Center was filled with poets from around North Carolina when Carrboro Recreation and Parks hosted the 2009 West End Poets Festival Saturday, Oct.

Developers of the proposed Pine Forest Planned Unit Development near West End are planning a second neighborhood meeting Thursday night.

Charity Ruth Haskins was crowned as the 23rd Miss Moore County Saturday night at Owens Auditorium.

THEY are a weird mob over at West End. Proud of it. Now the eclectic collection of crafters and artists, students and socialists, backpackers and business folk on this Brisbane peninsula face high-rise progress as the big city creeps across the river.

Randy Helten believes if enough people in the West End start growing edible plants, the neighbourhood could become a model of food security for other urban centres around the world.

A Moore County couple has been nominated for a national award for commitment to adoption and foster care.

Nothing jars sensitivities about growth more than the reminiscence of a native Moore Countian.

Finally someone is writing about Twilight in this town. Vancouver's "urban weekly," the West Ender , or WE for those in the know or with an aversion to words, answers the question Vancouverites have wondered since it grew tired of the circular rhetoric surrounding who let the dogs out : How is the worldwide movie phenomenon, Twilight , changing ...