Jason Clamme, Lower Cape Feaar LifeCare director of community engagement, recently received the Hospice-Veteran Partnership Leadership Award during the 2023 Association of Home and Hospice Care of NC conference, according to a news release.  The award recognizes a hospice employee who is a leader within their organization and community in efforts to better ser ...

Kent Homes received the 2023 Guildmaster Award from GuildQuality for a 12th year in a row for demonstrating exceptional customer service within the residential construction industry, according to a news release. Since 2005, GuildQuality, an Atlanta-based third-party customer satisfaction surveying company, has bestowed the Guildmaster Award to recognize and celebrate ho ...

Surf City-based Pivot Parking recently announced the addition of industry veteran Gary Means to its growing team. According to a news release, Means will serve as executive vice president of municipal and commercial parking, focusing on territory growth and the development and implementation of new technologies to benefit parking clients and end users. Mean ...

Several new agents have joined the Autumn Hall and Hampstead offices of Wilmington-based Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage.   Jena Romanesk (pictured below), James Adams, Clair Pridgen, Skip Lennon and Tyler Pappas joined the Autumn Hall office, while Emmanuel Castañeda and Dawn Dec joined the Hampstead office. With work experience in both the ...

Josh Smith has been selected to serve as New Hanover County’s chief communications officer beginning July 11. Smith comes to New Hanover County Government after serving as the chief communications officer for New Hanover County Schools since 2021. He takes over the role following the promotion of Jessica Loeper to assistant county manager in April. “Our c ...

Brenda Bozeman, mayor of Leland, has been chosen to serve as chair of the N.C. Mayors Association for the next year, according to a Leland town news release.  Bozeman’s selection was announced during the organization’s quarterly meeting as a part of the N.C. League of Municipalities’ CityVision annual conference held in Concord in April, the ...

Nikolai Mather will be joining the WHQR news team to cover rural areas of the Cape Fear region on a “rural safety net” beat, according to a news release. "Report for America supported the recruiting and hiring of this new journalist and will provide support for this position for three years – alongside the generous support of WHQR members," t ...

Wilmington law firm Craige & Fox recently announced that Abbey Hudson has joined the firm as an associate attorney focusing her practice on estate planning.  Hudson previously worked at Carolina Estate Planning, according to her LinkedIn page. She graduated with a law degree from Campbell University in 2021 and earned a bachelor's degree in communication fr ...

Cranfill Sumner LLP recently announced that Winston West has joined the firm’s Wilmington office as an associate attorney. He focuses his practice on employment and business disputes, according to a news release. West has represented clients in the state and federal courts of Virginia and North Carolina and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissio ...

More than 30 chapter and individual awards were presented to Brunswick Town Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution at the North Carolina DAR conference in Durham in late April, according to a news release. The chapter, founded in 1976, has 180 members and several applicants under review at DAR's national headquarters.   Chapter a ...