Wrightsville Beach News

Wilmington awarded a more than $20 million contract Monday, Nov. 23, to a company now tasked with a contingent of enormous dredging projects on Ocean Isle and New Hanover County beaches, including Masonboro Island , authorities said.

The curtains will close on this year's hurricane season Monday, Nov. 30, and it appears as though the Wrightsville Beach/Wilmington area will bow out gracefully.

Although the three-day spree of North Carolina Holiday Flotilla events have only a few days left in countdown for final preparations to be made, its new 5k Run and Fun Loop Walk, second year in the running, officially kicked off the Wrightsville Beach holiday celebration bright and early on Saturday, Nov.

Wrightsville Beach Mayor Stephen Whalen thanked town staff at the board of aldermen meeting on Thursday, Nov.

Fire chief Frank Smith leads a tour for Town of Wrightsville Beach department heads through the fire station for recommendations to the board of aldermen for future use of the building.

Wrightsville Beach's new hazard mitigation plan detailed Monday night, Nov. 9 calls for continuing efforts to construct an emergency operations center off-island. Such a center could provide the town's emergency command staff with a properly hardened structure to base its emergency responders and command post, said Wrightsville Beach Fire Chief ...

Planning board chairman, Lori Rosbrugh and board member Susan Robinson arrived with amended versions of the town's non-conforming ordinance for discussion during the Wrightsville Beach planning board's regular monthly meeting Nov.

Through the first half of the 20th century, suburban residents in Wilmington would board the trolley line and-for a pocket-sized cost-ride through the city, over the channels and into Wrightsville Beach.

's 2009 municipal elections on Nov. 3 has officially been declared. Canvassing has ended after the approval of 55 provisional ballots among the four municipalities, not enough for any defeated candidate to inch ahead of their leading competitors, said Director Bonnie Williams of the New Hanover County Board of Elections.

When a pair of Wilmington men spotted a shark cruising about one mile off the coast of Wrightsville Beach last Sunday, Nov.

Rhett and Julie Taber are seeking a possible injunction against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' borrow plan to dredge sand from Banks Channel to renourish Wrightsville's beaches.

The plug has been pulled on Wrightsville's pay-per-inquiry television ad campaign, leaving the Tourism Development Authority with about $28,000 in unspent funds.

A great white shark was reported Sunday about a mile off the coast near the Oceanic pier in Wrightsville Beach Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 3:51 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 5:14 p.m. New Hanover County A great white shark apparently lurking off the coast of New Hanover County has become the talk of a popular ...

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:19 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:19 p.m. The Wrightsville Beach Planning Board has started talking about rule changes that could have a big impact on how old cottages are renovated.

A Coast Guard crew from Air Station Elizabeth City responded to a report of an overdue fishing vessel about 12 miles east of New Topsail Inlet, N.C., Tuesday night.

After regaining consciousness the first words of policewoman Kim Munley, who shot the Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan, were "Did anybody die?" Sergeant Munley, 34, was unconcious after being shot three times by Hasan and was rushed to hospital after she lost so much blood doctors thought she would die.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC ... When Wrightsville Beach police detective Shaun Appler pulled over a suspected drunk driver in 2000, he couldn't have foreseen the dangerous situation that was about to ensue.

The stepmother of the police officer who shot an Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers said Friday the woman's heroics are not surprising.

The goliath grouper can grow as long as 8 feet, weigh up to 880 pounds and live for more than 35 years.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 11:35 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 11:35 a.m. The Surf City Town Council voted unanimously Wednesday to extend the conditional use permit for the Beach House Marina project's dry stacks by another year.