Writing in the Lumina News, Brian Freskos offers a fascinating account of how defeated incumbents in both Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach are handling their election-day losses. Some of them aren’t handling it very well, it seems.
I learned several things from the article, including the fact that while my longtime friend [...]
Writing in the Lumina News, Pat Bradford sums up the poll results in Wrightsville Beach, one of several area communities where mayors and other incumbents went down to defeat on Election Day. The turnout was high in the town, despite pre-vote predictions to the contrary, and the winning candidates [...]
WECT offers a full spread of stories about Kimberly Munley, the Carolina Beach native and former Wrightsville Beach police officer who shot Nidal Malik Hasan and thus cut short his deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood. Munley, who has a history of heroism, was herself wounded in [...]
While incumbent Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo easily won reelection last night, other incumbents around the region didn’t fare as well. Two incumbent council members in Wilmington were defeated. So were several mayors in smaller towns such as Wrightsville Beach, Boiling Springs Lakes, Southport, and Oak Island.
In Jacksonville, the Daily News [...]
The Lumina News has more details about the controversy involving out-of-town voter registrations in Wrightsville Beach. For example:
David Cignotti, Bill Sisson and Walter De Vries, sent mailings to more than 1,600 households in Wrightsville Beach. Three hundred of those mailings from each candidate—or more than 900 total—did not reach [...]
