Azalea Festival celebrates more than 20 springtime events
WILMINGTON — Diversifying its demographics has become a priority for Azalea Festival director Alison Baringer and the 150 committee chairs that help put on…
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WILMINGTON — Diversifying its demographics has become a priority for Azalea Festival director Alison Baringer and the 150 committee chairs that help put on…
For the past three quarters of a century, spring in Wilmington has meant the Azalea Festival. Wilmington's biggest annual shindig returns April 12-16.
NEW HANOVER COUNTY — A local violence prevention leader's last day working for New Hanover County was Monday after he was "dismissed."
The 75th annual N.C. Azalea Festival is preparing for a full-fledged return to April for the first time since 2019.
For fans of the cultural and performing arts in Wilmington, once you get past March, 2020 was an ugly year. Sure, there were a bunch of drive-in movies and concerts, a couple of musicals held on the steps outside of Thalian Hall, and a fair number of art exhibitions that were either socially distanced or held outdoors. But for the most part, when it comes to the arts, the coronavirus pandemic took away everything most people regarded as normal. At present a return to "the way things were" seems uncertain at best. At the time this story was written in November, a great deal remained unknown ab...