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What's Happening this Weekend in Wilmington, NC and Local Beaches   What's Happening this Weekend in Wilmington, NC and Local Beaches Orange Street Arts Festival - 60 artists including jewelry , crafts and art - 15th year for this festival, Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 10 - 5, along Orange Street bet...

Wilmington, NC and its beaches - Carolina Beach, Kure Beach and Wrightsville Beach are all in the swing of summertime and with that comes the fresh veggies and fruits grown by local farmers and purveyors. There are an abundant number of Farmers Markets in the area. Check out the days and locatio...

The beach will certainly be the star of this Holiday weekend but there are a few other things to see. The amusement park will open this weekend with 20 rides. The price is $ 20.00 for the day. It includes all rides. It is directly adjacent to the Carolina Beach boardwalk. On Hamlet street there w...

Wilmington, NC, Kure Beach, Carolina Beach and Wrightsville BEach Area Events 6/4-6/5:  Fisherman's Post Spring Inshore Challenge, Wrightsville Beach. 6/5:  25th Annual Beach Music Festival, Carolina Beach. 6/5: Surf-Sun-Sand Volleyball & Bocce Ball Tournament, Wrightsville Beach  6/6:  Summer Mu...

  Wilmington: A Top 10 Recreation City   RelocateAmerica listed Wilmington as a Top 10 Recreation City for 2010.  The publication sited warm temperatures, casual lifestyles, and a plethora of activities for all ages as some of the determining factors.  Those of us that live in this area year-rou...

A husband and wife are shopping in their local supermarket. The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart."What do you think you're doing?" asks the wife."They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans," he replies."Put them back! We can't afford them," orders the wife.They carry on ...

  Listing InventoryIn April we saw an increase in listing inventory of 43 units. We are about 137 units over May 2009. We have 5,620 single family homes for sale in our MLS. The average list price of $385,600 is up by $4,625 from last month. The average list price has increased by 3.8% from Febru...

Carolina & Kure BeachThere are currently 533 single family homes for sale and this represents a 5 unit decrease over April 2010 and 9.5% of our total WRAR inventory. The average list price is $419,797 an decrease of about $11,136 from March. In April there were 29 homes sold, divide that by the h...

 Usually in the Springtime I plant both of my planters in front of my house with flowers but upon closer examination of my planters I saw a little clump of twigs. It was a tightly formed circle and inside were 5 little blue eggs. I couldn't disturb this hardworking Mom so I just waited. It was e...

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND THINKING, SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD. WELL . . . YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE; MY NAME IS ALICE , AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST. I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA ON THE WALL, WHICH BORE HIS FULL...