June is LGBTQI-plus Pride Month, a time when LGBTQI-plus community members, family, friends and advocates acknowledge and celebrate the gift of diversity that is unique to each of us. Many municipalities host pride parades and events where LGBTQI-plus community members outwardly profess ...
At December’s monthly Wilmington town board meeting, Deputy Supervisor Darin Forbes provided prepared remarks in which he stated, “The conception [sic] out there is we aren’t listening to people, so I really wanted to take some time for myself, plug some data into AirDNA, look at some of ...
No one should be expected to passively absorb, month after month, ever-lower blows. For nearly a year, a group of people have used a variety of tactics to malign an elected official in Wilmington. Some might say this is the cost of public life, but members of this group have now ventured ...
Big Tech has put local journalism on life support and it’s undermining our ability to govern ourselves. In the past two decades, Americans have watched their local papers shutter their doors or reduce their footprint in their communities as Google and Facebook have become dominant forces ...
Adopted in the fall of 2021, Wilmington’s local law regulating short-term vacation rentals is derived from a law that North Elba’s leaders wrote in 2019 and passed in early 2020. This is publicly acknowledged and is demonstrated by the fact that the two towns’ laws are extremely similar. ...
Transgender Day of Remembrance occurs annually on Nov. 20. It is a day to memorialize people killed as the result of transphobia, (hatred or fear of transgender and gender non-conforming/non-binary people). We also remember those who died as a result of suicide. This day serves to bring ...