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Next week, UNCW Writers Week (Nov. 3-7) and North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference (Nov. 7-9) overlap to offer writers and enthusiasts spaces to learn, grow, and enjoy literary storytelling in all forms.

Public comments are open on the proposed permit for for discharges from the City of Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Wilmington's No Kings was one of approximately 2,600 events held nationwide most of which, like ours, remained peaceful.

Hosted at Silver Coast Winery in Ocean Isle this Saturday, Oct. 25, Bluegrass by the Beach benefits the Brunswick County Habitat for Humanity.

Gadisse Lee comes from Raleigh for her artist talk and visit this Friday, Oct. 24, as part of her “Conversations in Isolation” exhibit.

Big Dawg's 'Dracula' exceeds every single aspect of the theatrical arts. From the talents shaping the multitude of roles on stage, to the numerous unseen hands that allow it to appear so smoothly. I was left in awe.

JJ Street was playing drums at American Fish Company the same night a military veteran, well known to local law enforcement and believed to struggle with PTSD and traumatic brain injury, allegedly opened fire from a boat into the Southport waterfront bar, murdering three people and physically injuring at least eight.

CEO Dr. Morris Nguyen starts a movement to reduce mortality from sepsis—worldwide.

Photos from Shakori Hills Grassroots Fall Festival.

​​CFLC’s Adult Story Hour supports their free adult literacy programming and each event of the series includes food and drinks for purchase, NC writers and entertainers, and Q&A with special guest moderators.

UNCW Randall Library and encore magazine will host a panel discussion with local AI experts at Discovery Hall 1070 at UNCW on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. for an introductory discussion about artificial intelligence.

Shannon Rae Gentry revisits math class and one of the influential and respectable teachers she remembers.

Big Dawg Theatre aims for side-splitting laughter over harrowing screams this year when they open “Dracula: A Comedy of Terror” at Thalian's Ruth and Bucky Stein Theatre this coming Thursday, October 16.

Norway’s Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra band kicks off their fall tour in the US this month. Nearly half of Hayde’s tour dates are in North Carolina, with a stopover in Wilmington at Bourgie Nights on October 23. 

With the obvious need for change, it seems Skillmaker is primed to revolutionize an antiquated system. Matt Thies sits down with CEO Robin Cowie to learn more.

Save Sledge Forest has around 12,500 signatures on their petition which they will present at the County Commissioner’s meeting on Monday, October 6. “If I were a county commissioner, I’d think of it as 12,500 votes,” Castle Hayne resident Carrie Bogart notes.

Voting opens October 3: Click on “Vote Now” to watch the finalists’ videos and cast up to one vote per day, per category, for the organization you feel deserves to win.

As your friendly neighborhood eclectic, I tapped into what I hoped you needed to hear most right now (because the universe and I have regular coffee dates where we discuss your business). When I say "tapped in," I mean I ask the universe to tell me what the collective needs to hear, and the message came through loud and clear: fear is keeping you stuck. Same. So, what do we do about it?