OK, OK, OK, Soooooo. . . . . . . You’ve got a real estate related question about vacation rentals. You can ask but I won’t answer until you listen to a story. Ready? It goes something like this: A really old man was sitting on a dock fishing. Nothing was biting but he continued to sit and patiently waited for the fish to bite. All of a sudden a frog jumps up on the dock beside the man. The frog says...

Experience Pender County’s Great Outdoors Pender County is an outdoor-lover’s paradise. With beaches, the Intracoastal Waterway, the Northeast Cape Fear River, the Black River, and a multitude of streams and creeks, we have boating, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, paddle boarding and jet skis adventures. With the Holly Shelter Game Lands, we have hunting and hiking. Go shelling on our beaches, walk a trail,...

Not every college student heads to Florida or Cancun (or wherever they go these days) for their spring break. For the fourth year we welcomed a group of “Terps” from the University of Maryland’s “Alternative Break” program. These eleven students (plus their Associate Director, Boots Quimby) are from the Integrated Life Sciences Honor College at the university. Their name for their annual...