Southport Magazine

Publishing a community magazine is just fun. You never know where the connections you make will lead. My trip to the community garden behind Brunswick Community College’s Lord Street campus to take photos led me to a really cool old

Running a small business is an adventure under normal circumstances. Living in Hurricane Alley adds an extra level of challenge most years. Our local business owners accept this and have learned to deal with it. But when COVID-19 entered the

When Joe Doppes purchased Bob’s Dogs on Oak Island last year, he decided to leave the name as is, wanting to reassure regular customers that things would remain pretty much the same. “You don’t want people to think you’re going

I  love a parade. I especially love our homegrown, full of fire trucks and pageant queens parades. Add a festival into the mix and the Stites family is all on board. In almost 26 years of living here, I have

In an effort to boost local businesses, the NC Fourth of July Festival Committee decided to sell this year’s commemorative t-shirts through some local businesses. So buying one supports the Festival and a local small business, at a time when

This year marks the 100th year since the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution recognizing women’s right to vote on a nationwide level. The Southport Historical Society will be helping celebrate with a video tribute on

This is a bittersweet year for Southport’s 4th of July Festival. This will be the 225th year of the Festival, and this year also marks the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote nationwide. But this year’s celebrations