Fort Fisher educator honored - Star News Online
The Mid-Atlantic Marine Education Association (MAMEA), representing marine science in the classroom, at research institutions, aquariums, museums and governmental agencies from North Carolina to Delaware, has honored Ruth Schneider Gourley, education ...
Laney drama group wins several honors - Star News Online
Laney High School's Honors Drama and Technical Theatre won at the North Carolina Theatre Conference One Act Play Competition Oct. 31-Nov. 1 in Washington, N.C. Related Links: Wilmington Civitan Club turns 70 Gallop for the Gravy 5K run Coats and ...
NC Aquarium Pier at Emerald Isle seeking citizen advisers - WNCT
The North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores and the Town of Emerald Isle are looking for citizen participation in planning a new educational ocean fishing pier. An eight-member advisory committee will help guide decisions on design and operation ...
What slump? Hotel opens with Kylie and a $35m party - Brisbane Times
The global financial collapse seemed far behind in the artificial playground of Dubai as one of the most outlandish architectural extravagances of recent times opened with a £15 million ($A35.75 million) celebration in the company of A-list stars ...
Fire severely damages home full of generosity (Asbury Park Press)
For two years, the Thetgyi family has collected clothes for Burmese refugees, using their home to store bagfuls of donated items until they could be brought to the families in Atlantic City and Somers Point.
November means it’s movie time (The Facts)
It’s beginning to look like a good chunk of my disposable income will go toward movie tickets this month. First and most importantly, one of my favorite actors (Daniel Craig) will be back in theaters as one of my favorite characters (James Bond) on Friday in “Quantum of Solace.”
Beach Buzz | Souper Supper ladles up flavor Soup, anyone? (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
Souper Supper ladles up flavor Soup, anyone? The 2008 American Culinary Federation Federation Souper Supper will be held from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Valor Memorial Garden at The Market Common. The event, in its 13th year, will feature the gourmet soups of more than 30 of the area's finest chefs. For example, Chef Steve Martin of Fontinellos in Murrells Inlet is preparing tomato basil ...
Famous fish passes on (Ashland Gazette)
GRETNA - For 11 and a half years, he awed visitors to the Ak-Sar-Ben Aquarium and, at 95 pounds, was the largest North American catfish in captivity. For the past month, the fish affectionately known as Big Blue had been "turning up his nose" at trout he once consumed at the rate of seven per week.
The Blotter: Something fishy at the Georgia Aquarium (Creative Loafing Atlanta)
By Lauren Keating SOMETHING FISHY: A woman from Plantation, Fla., said she visited the Georgia Aquarium one Friday afternoon. It was crowded when she arrived, she said. About an hour later, she said she noticed that her diamond-and-gold tennis bracelet had been stolen. (It's worth about $2,000.) No suspects. SOMETHING FISHY, Part II: A 56-year-old woman from Huntington, W.Va., said she visited ...
Sixty-three feet below the ocean's surface, the science teacher was giving his morning lesson. ''Hi, and welcome to Aquarius for our third and final broadcast from this mission,'' Mark Tohulka told his third-period marine biology students, who watched via webcam from their classroom at MAST Academy on Virginia Key.
(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, tropical coral reefs have become drastically altered by disease epidemics. In a new study published by PLoS ONE, lead author Steven V. Vollmer, assistant professor of biology at the Marine Science Center at Northeastern University, finds that acroporid corals listed on the US Endangered Species...
Killer whale scat, sniffed out by a specially trained Labrador retriever, is showing that endangered southern resident orcas may not be finding enough to eat.
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