Long before the N.C. Azalea Festival blossomed, another plant marked the start of spring in the Wilmington area: strawberries. The plant’s juicy fruit not only was popular at dinner tables, strawberries were part of a thriving local business known as truck-farming. Instead of being sold only in local markets, strawberries and crops such as lettuce, cabbage and mel ...

Amber Smith and Andrew Zel­din meet people in their 60s who have continued working past retirement age for a variety of reasons.   “We have some folks that have been fortunate enough to have saved and been able to plan for their retirement, and then we have some individuals that unfortunately for whatever life circumstances, they ei­ther weren’t ...