New Hanover and Brunswick County will begin Phase 1B of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout this week. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy New Hanover County) Update:…
New Hanover County received about 4,800 doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine a few days before Christmas. Over 1,300 doses have been administered. (Port…
Plans for Driftwood Farms off Castle Hayne Road include an outdoor amphitheater and two activity centers. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy New Hanover County)
CASTLE HAYNE An outdoor event space equipped with an amphitheater might be coming to Castle Hayne, if the project can secure a rezoning bid in New Hanover County.
Driftwood Farms Event Center is the working title of the in-the-works project, which involves an open-air amphitheater and multiple event spaces, positioned on Castle Hayne Road.
The 19-acre piece of undeveloped land across from Stricks Trading Post Lane has not been sold for at least the past 65 years, and instead has moved between different trusts, most recently to one belonging to Susan Moore Skinner in 2012. Property records show Skinner’s family maintained ownership of the plot since at least the 1950s.
Panza Allen McNeill receives New Hanover County’s first dose of the Moderna vaccine Tuesday afternoon. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy New Hanover County)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY Panza Allen McNeill, a 19-year New Hanover County Public Health nurse, received the first dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine in the county Tuesday afternoon.
The county administered its first doses of the Moderna vaccine to frontline health workers Tuesday who interact with Covid-19 patients as part of their daily job.
“The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be the fight of our lives, but the arrival of the vaccine gives a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel,” Allen McNeill said in a county press
This exterior design rendering shows the proposed, four-floor, “open concept” government center office building with a park out front. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy New Hanover County)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY – As interest rates for county borrowings continue to decline, New Hanover is looking to finance its new government center through public debt rather than leasing the future building from the developer as it originally agreed to.
In June the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners approved a development agreement with Wilmington-based
Cape Fear FD Stonewater, LLC for the project. In that contract, the county agreed to lease the constructed facility from the developer.