Earlier this year, Laurie Whalin was promoted to run Novant’s hospitals in Southeastern North Carolina. Whalin, who first joined New Hanover Regional Medical Center in 2009, rose through the ranks at the then-county-owned hospital – from pharmacy clinical manager to the director of pharmacy to vice president of clinical support services. In 2021, she became ...

For Morgan Korous, general manager of Dave & Buster’s in Mayfaire Town Center, playing arcade games is a part of the job. In his seven years with Dave & Buster’s, Korous has helped manage locations up and down the East Coast from Orlando to Charlotte and then Baltimore. He moved to Wilmington this spring to take the helm at the new Mayfaire venue. ...

The start of 2025 marked a change in leadership at Corning’s Wilmington facility. Bryce Dill started as manager of the Wilmington plant for the New York-based company, taking the role over from Russ Lopatka, who is now serving as Corning’s North America manufacturing manager for optical fiber. About 1,000 people now work at the Wilmington facility, which ...

The current administration’s zeal to diminish or eliminate federal grants has left nonprofits, universities, public service organizations and their employees scrambling to consider the status of previously funded studies, services and programming. From scientific research to refugee resettlement, the breadth of the impact has been breathtaking. Though various orde ...

The region is seeing an expansion of medical facilities and services (for more details on specific projects, click here). Meanwhile, medical education, clinical trials and partnerships on health care models are other areas where local health officials are investing resources.     1 – Medical Real Estate A local investor acquired a medical office in H ...

The Wilmington region remains in growth mode. It’s evident when driving around town, shopping for housing or scheduling a doctor’s appointment. On the plus side, more people attract additional retail options – case in point, read about Mayfaire’s growing mix here. The growing population also is fueling the need for expanding medical service ...

Wilmington-based photographer Brownie Harris recently published his book Photography Retrospective: 1970-2020, a collection of his work over the past 50 years. “The book shows a wide range of subjects – not just well-known persons but of industrial landscapes and lesser-known people. There are a few of Wilmington people and film/TV that I shot here,” s ...

Live.Eat.Surf Restaurant Group celebrated the grand opening of its sixth K38 Baja Grill location last month. The newest location, 100 N. Lake Park Blvd., was also the first restaurant to open in the Proximity development in Carolina Beach that has more than 25,000 square feet of shopping and dining. Additional eateries there will include Boombalatti’s, Drift Coffe ...

As the Cape Fear region continues to grow, so do the health care needs of its residents. The area’s largest providers are responding to those needs through expansions in the next couple of years. The MedNorth Health Center, for example, in downtown Wilmington is expanding by leaps and bounds, and CEO Althea Johnson is looking forward for the grand opening of its n ...

For this year’s Coastal Entrepreneur of the Year, the journey started, as many entrepreneurial journeys do, with an important question. “How do we make sure life-saving therapies get to the people who need them without delay, without compromise?” Frontier Scientific Solutions, the 2025 Coastal Entrepreneur of the Year, wanted to come up with an answ ...