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Prohibition Holidays
By Liz Fuller As hosts and hostesses throughout Southport plan their annual holiday parties, they can take for granted their ability to serve their guests the champagne, wine, beer or liquor of their choice. But of course, that has not
Youth Business Fair
When we walked through the first Southport-Oak Island Chamber of Commerce Youth Business Fair in November of 2019, which feels like a thousand years ago, we were aspiring entrepreneurs, people with a plan and working toward a goal, but not
Meet A Local Author
Everyone deals with the empty nest syndrome in their own way. Cindy Horrell Ramsey became an author and found a new sort of family — veterans who served on the USS Battleship North Carolina. Ramsey’s book ”Boys of the Battleship
Biz Q&A: April Scott, BCC Small Business Center
For this Small Business Month edition of the Biz Q&A we spoke with April Scott, Director of the Small Business Center at Brunswick Community College. April is one of our community’s most enthusiastic supporters of small business and her work
Womanpreneur Summit
The Small Business Center at Brunswick Community College is seeking to help address the specific challenges facing women business owners at its Womenpreneur Empowerment Summit. The three-day event runs all day Nov. 14 and 15 with a networking event to
Sea Notes Christmas Concert
Get into the holiday frame of mind this season with the Sea Notes Christmas concert. Approximately 100 members of Sea Notes Choral Society will present their ever-popular and long-awaited 2022 Christmas Concert at Odell Williamson Auditorium on the campus of
Bonfire Bash
Grab your flip flops and a flannel for a casual, celebratory evening by the shore! Join your local Chamber as we illuminate the area businesses that make our community so special. Dance the night away as a DJ spins your
Brunswick Little Theatre’s December Show
Brunswick Little Theatre is proud to present the last show of the 2022 season, “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” by Alfred Uhry, the playwright who also wrote the iconic Driving Miss Daisy. The show will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Meet The Authors At FOLSOI Annual Meeting
Many published authors make their home in coastal Carolina, and this year’s Annual Meeting for the Friends of the Library Southport-Oak Island offers the chance to meet four of them. “The author panel includes an eight-time Pulitzer prize nominee, national
Spine Poems
Did you ever look at a pile of books and think, “Wow! Those titles, when read all together, sound like a poem!” Honestly, neither did I. But Southport resident Annette Dauphin-Simon sees the makings of a poem in just about
