Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, continues to grow in importance every year. Although much legislation has been passed to restrict chemical pollution and regulate emissions, there are new examples of harmful contaminants seemingly every day. In our own region, the...
Thursday, April 22 will mark the 51st Earth Day Celebration, an annual event held around the world to demonstrate support for environmental protection The theme for 2021 is “Restore Our Earth” with an emphasis on reducing climate change. Earth Day originated in 1970...
Conditions were ideal for FOLSOI’s latest Book Sale at Southport Realty on Saturday, April 10, as a rainy morning gave way to sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s. The line formed early for patrons eager to resume this pandemic-limited event. In addition to folks...
If we forget the past, we’ll be doomed to repeat it. So said the philosopher George Santayana and thus is the purpose of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), this year starting the evening of Wednesday, April 7. In Hebrew, Shoah means destruction and that is,...
This week’s Southport Historical Society presentation featured Travis Gilbert, executive director of the Historic Wilmington Foundation, portraying longtime Bald Head Island lighthouse keeper “Sonny” Dosher, whose life offers a view into much of our local history....
