By Mary H. Please help us congratulate five elementary students from Classical Conversations of Hampstead, NC, who recently earned the...

I don’t thank you ever outgrow looking up at the clouds and trying to see a picture in them. What do you see? A heart in the middle of an...

It’s been a very unusual late winter early/spring at our hospital. Normally we spend our winter months dealing with an onslaught of cold...

The Gardens of Southeastern North Carolina is a non-profit botanical garden dedicated to improving lives, cultivating inspiration,...

Volume III, Issue 8 is now released! Click on "Click to View" to enlarge the e-newspaper copy or Click Here. If the above two links do...

At the Holly Ridge Town meeting on Tuesday, April 11th, an item on the agenda was to discuss a proposal regarding the current zip code,...

If you have been following the recent news in North Carolina, you are aware that you no longer need a purchase permit to buy a handgun....

History indicates that Sir Arthur Onslow never visited the colonies, never owned any property in Onslow County, and may well never have...

Rebecca Royal and her husband Guy run one of the most popular BBQ restaurants around. Surf City BBQ has been a fixture in the Topsail...

“The Golden Age of Pirates” was the period between 1650 and 1720, when these seafaring pirates saw the height of their fame. Blackbeard,...

1. Remember that age is just a number. When I first started writing, I joined a writer’s group and met a woman who was active in city...

A long time ago when dinosaurs roamed Topsail Island, there was a Texaco station right across from the IGA Shopping Center. Well, it...