Archive for November, 2020

We love Pender Spenders! Pender County retailers are using our Pender Spender stickers to empower shoppers that It Matters Where You Shop. Thank you for being a Pender Spender! #ShopPender

Today is #NationalTakeAHikeDay! Hop on one of Pender County's many trails like the statewide Mountains-to-Sea Trail or Visit Moores Creek National Battlefield and hike the same path that revolutionary soldiers did. Visit the Town of Burgaw and hop on the Osgood Greenway and Urban Trail and walk past historic sites and famous filming locations. Or if you're looking for something more adventurous check...

If you’re feeling like nothing good has happened this year let us offer you a little ray of sunshine. There were one-hundred-seven sea turtle nests on Topsail beaches over the summer, and almost all of them hatched. We lost only one to a hurricane, and the fate of the three nests laid very late in the season will depend on how cold it gets over the next few weeks. But by and large those ambitious turtle mamas...

Pender County Tourism and Pender County Parks and Recreation created a 2021 wall calendar featuring favorite photos from the Nature Photo Contest conducted last March. “We highlighted some of the winning photographs as well as photos that were judges’ favorites,” said Tammy Proctor, Pender County Tourism Director. “We also included important community events, such as the Anniversary of the...

It’s been a frustrating year for everybody, but especially for hospital staff. Normally at this point we would have welcomed about 50,000-to-60,000 visitors to our hospital through our public tours, and we’d be continuing those tours through mid-December. But this year: zip. Covid has kept us locked inside, but thankfully, by being vigilant with masking we’ve managed to keep Covid totally out of the...