06/18/11 There was something for everyone at this year's 8 th Annual Blueberry Festival. Hundreds of families attended the festival to enjoy food, live music performances and more food!
06/17/11 BURGAW, NC (WWAY) -- The Pender County Health Department and Board of Health are in the midst of turbulent times. They can't find a permanent health director. Many of the board members have resigned in protest over personality conflicts. And now we're finding out just how dysfunctional the department has been the last 18 months. We obtained the personnel file of Shirley Steele. She was the ...
06/16/11 BURGAW, NC (WWAY) -- Administrators in Pender County have pulled a quick about face with a school principal. The Pender County Board of Education announced today it has reinstated Marcus Skipper as principal of Topsail High School effective immediately. Earlier this week Skipper was reassigned to be principal at Cape Fear Middle School, which upset many parents and students at Topsail High. The ...
06/16/11 BURGAW, NC (WWAY) -- Administrators in Pender County have pulled a quick about face with a school principal. The Pender County Board of Education announced today it has reinstated Marcus Skipper as principal of Topsail High School effective immediately. Earlier this week Skipper was reassigned to be principal at Cape Fear Middle School, which upset many parents and students at Topsail High ...
06/15/11 A familiar face in area club repair has landed at Magnolia Greens Golf Course in Leland.
06/14/11 Burgaw Middle School hosted the annual "teacher of the year" awards Tuesday.
06/14/11 The new fiscal year starts July 1 and Pender County is working hard to solidify their final numbers.
06/08/11 The movie centers around an NFL player (Ryan McPartlin) who steps away from the game to return to his childhood home in North Carolina to be with family after his father (Beau Bridges) has a heart attack.
06/07/11 The principal at Burgaw Elementary School says his contract wasn't going to be renewed next year because he's black. So, Thurman Lewis requested a hearing with the school board and instead announced he's retiring Tuesday morning.
06/02/11 In the summer, Pender County 4-H provides an assortment of summer educational programs as a part of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service-Pender County Center.
06/01/11 The North Carolina Blueberry Festival and recipe contest is right around the corner (June 18 in Burgaw), so this week I'm sticking with the blueberries and making a blueberry cucumber salad.
05/29/11 Levi Dixon explains that he was born 99 years ago in a no-lights, no-bathroom, no-running-water house about a mile down the road, where he and "14 head" of children slept three to a bed. Yet he put eight children through college, scratching tuition from the Bladen County soil, and earned his GED at age 91, taking courses taught by his daughter.
05/25/11 The only way to win a flight in the first Wilmington Senior Amateur is to participate, and the tournament is only nine days away.
05/22/11 Mike Clay packed up all his belongings and took a chance on building a business for which he was the target customer.
05/22/11 If you drive anywhere in Onslow County, you have likely seen them: groups of bikers out on a run, straddling Harleys with high handlebars and sporting well-worn leather or denim vests emblazoned with an evocative image: a skull wearing an Indian...
05/20/11 Sandhills Chapter No. 72 of the American Legion Riders conducted the annual Lake Waccamaw Ride on April 30, with all proceeds benefiting the Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina Inc.
05/12/11 Deputies in Pender County arrested two people Thursday in connection to a burglary that happened that morning on White Stocking Road. See their mugshots inside.
05/09/11 WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- Wilmington Police have identified the victims of a shooting and stabbing outside Club 609 on Market Street early Sunday morning. Cornelius Tremayne Blanks, 20, of Burgaw was shot and killed. Friends have set up a Facebook page in his memory . Robert Lee McGruder, III, 20, of Leland was stabbed. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. So far, no arrests have been made ...
05/08/11 The shooting took place early Sunday morning around the parking lot of Club 609 on Market Street. Listen to the 911 calls inside, including one with the owner of the club.
04/28/11 Updated at 5:30 p.m. Strong thunderstorms will affect Duplin, Onslow, Jones and western Carteret counties until 6:15 p.m., according to the NWS. At 5:23 p.m., there were strong thunderstorms 18 miles west of New River Air Station or about 15 miles... | 
