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17 hrs ago | Lumina News

Wrightsville gets renourishment from Santa

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.

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Yesterday | Lumina News

Wrightsville dodges hurricane season

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.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

Lumina News

Flotilla countdown begins

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.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

Lumina News

Mayor Whalen thanks town staff

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

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Lumina News

BUG brainstorms fire station's future

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.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Lumina News

Mitigation plan renews off-island shelter

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 ...

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

Lumina News

Planners seek to redefine town's 50 percent rule for non-conforming structures

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.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

Lumina News

Downtown Wilmington to revive trolley talks

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.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Lumina News

Elections change attitudes, especially here in New Hanover County

'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.

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

Lumina News

White sharks not rare off Wrightsville Beach

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

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Lumina News

Tabers throws wrench into renourishment plans

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.

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Lumina News

Wrightsville extends TV ad campaign, hampering economic affects

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.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

StarNewsOnline.com

Great white shark apparently spotted off Wrightsville Beach

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 ...

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StarNewsOnline.com

Wrightsville Beach building makeover rules could change

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.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

Daily Advance

Coast Guard locates dead fisherman

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.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Free Republic

Fort Hood shooting: policewoman Kim Munley awoke from surgery and asked if anybody died

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.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Lumina News

Fort Hood heroine saved Wrightsville Beach detective's life

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.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

WCNC

Fort Hood officer family not surprised at heroics

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.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

StarNewsOnline.com

Man fined after spear-fishing grouper off Wrightsville Beach

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

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StarNewsOnline.com

Permit extended for Beach House Marina in Surf City

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.

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