Lobster Dogs rolls its fresh eats into Wilmington Sunday

Austin Herndon and Amanda Chason will be prepping 100 or so pounds of lobster for Wilmington’s launch of the food truck Lobster Dogs on Sunday. The franchised mobile eatery will make its debut with lobster, crab and shrimp rolls at Flying Machine Brewing Company on Jan. 3 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

“It’s the most people we’ve ever served, if they all show up,” Herndon said. READ MORE

In Pictures 2020: The pandemic, protests, an election year and a hurricane [Free]

It may be already cliché to describe how odd 2020 was, so perhaps we’ll just show you.

This year marked a strange time for Port City Daily photojournalists, who had to find creative ways to capture a pandemic that was, at first, mostly invisible. READ MORE

In Photos: Communities In Schools’ 2021 Wrightsville Plunge

Hundreds of brave people kicked off 2021 with an icy dip into the Wrightsville Beach surf on a mid-50s New Year’s Day.

For the sixth year, Communities In Schools of Cape Fear held its Wrightsville Plunge to raise money for its programs that support vulnerable students in local public schools. This year the event was held in a socially-distanced fashion, with participants diving in smaller groups, and three different plunge times to limit crowds (plungers briefly removed their masks before running into the water and masked back up upon return to land). READ MORE

Educators demand 6 feet – and no less – from New Hanover County Schools in Plan A

The New Hanover County Association of Educators (NHCAE) is calling on the school district to comply with its list of demands ahead of reopening elementary schools full time on Jan. 19.

On New Year’s Eve, representatives of the organization held a press conference in front of the New Hanover County Board of Education building to vocalize their requests for Plan A. Most notably, the members are asking for increased transparency of virus infections in the buildings and a guarantee of no less than 6 feet of social distancing. READ MORE