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Former WPD Chief Cease and wife now run rail company
The whirlwind life of John Cease, which Susan Cease was enjoying alternately as wingman, driver or by hanging on for dear life, hit a landscape-altering speed bump on a Tuesday morning in September 2003.Cease, in his sixth year as Wilmington's police chief, called home to his wife, colleague and best friend.“He asked me to bring him down some civilian clothes,” remembers Susan. “They gave him an… → Read More
Sportswriter finds pulpit suits him
Eddie Hill began his career as a sportswriter, so he appreciated the symmetry of finding his Road to Damascus moment when his beloved Duke basketball team finally finished first on the Road to the Final Four. → Read More
Pflug once led secular flock
John Pflug, the new pastor at Windermere Presbyterian Church, has arrived with a Texas-sized set of principles, but he also can sit comfortably on the fence. → Read More
Film accountant remembered for generosity, work ethic
Sheila Allen had a knack for getting things done, always crossing her own T's and dotting everyone else's I's. → Read More
Unassuming residents populate Porters Neck
The community might be a showplace, but it’s not a place for showoffs. → Read More
Sunset Park filled with diverse mix of faces, home prices
It was supposed to be Landfall. → Read More
Myrna Wexler was vital to city's pulse
Owen Wexler had every right to be downright emotional. Instead, he was positively astonished. → Read More
Word spreads of Skeets Winner's quiet passing
CAROLINA BEACH -- Skeets Winner, who helmed hundreds of thousands of folks on deep-sea fishing trips and moonlight cruises, often took his work ethic and obsession with customer care to another level. → Read More
Gym owner remembered as 'gentle giant'
Big brothers may pass away, but their memories don’t. → Read More
Atkinson auctions attract hundreds to old schoolhouse
The old high school building in Atkinson, Pender County, sits silent every day of every month -- except on the first Saturday, when all hell breaks loose. → Read More
Rustic setting lure of Ogden community
This is where newlyweds start their homes. → Read More
Residents praise Parsley Woods' atmosphere
When Penny and John Schardt, native Californians, were transferred to Wilmington by GE Nuclear back in the early 1990s, they felt like kids in a candy store on house-hunting trips. → Read More
Glad Tidings pastor on search for truth
“We want people to come here and celebrate the word of God,” said Henry Carroll, pastor of the Glad Tidings Celebration and Faith Church, as well as director of its Pathways School for middle and high school students. “It's a happy place. We don't want folks to have faces turned down.” → Read More
Workers adjust, find upsides to after-hours shifts
Carlene Brown is a veteran of the night shift, and a collegial member of the crew at Jimbo's that keeps folks sated from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. near the corner of Oleander and South College. → Read More
Rev. Freeman surpasses childhood ambition of being nun
As a young girl growing up on Dock Street in Wilmington, she thought she had it all figured out. → Read More
Cameron Art Museum provides variety of opportunities
The Cameron Art Museum provides not only a variety of educational opportunities for seniors at its sparkling facility on South 17th Street in Wilmington, but also an enticing atmosphere. → Read More
Carolina Heights balances style, diversity
Charles Davis remembers how he and his buddies, growing up in the Carolina Heights neighborhood of Wilmington, could cross Grace Street without ever touching the ground. → Read More
As region's population ages, what does future hold for retirees?
Jim Trickett, well into his second decade as a retiree to Southeastern North Carolina, was doing his obligatory spring trip to a gardening store for mulch in Brunswick County. → Read More
Designer's work ranges from breweries to churches
Dennis Setterfield, who is well into his second half century of designing bars and taverns, restaurants and nightclubs, movie sets and retail stores, chuckles over one of his most interesting assignments. → Read More
Program gives high school kids a head start on college
Hundreds of area high school students – and their parents – are getting an academic and financial leg up on college while they're still making plans for the junior-senior prom. → Read More