North Carolina Azalea Festival announces 2021 Queen
The 2021 Azalea Festival Queen, Princess announced By WECT Staff | March 8, 2021 at 8:03 PM EST - Updated March 8 at 11:52 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Azalea Festival announced Monday the 74th Queen Azalea for the 2021 Azalea Festival is Victoria Huggins.
Huggins, a former WECT employee, was Miss Wilmington 2016, Miss North Carolina 2017, and a former emcee of both the Azalea Children’s Tea and the Azalea Festival Princess Scholarship Pageant.
As a news producer for WECT/WSFX, she worked third shift on “Carolina in the Morning” and as a traffic reporter.
Currently a resident of Vass, N.C., Huggins counts this opportunity as one of the greatest honors of her lifetime. She is now a community and media relations manager of the Fayetteville Woodpeckers, a Class A minor league baseball team, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Miss North Carolina organization and the Fayetteville Urban Minist
Edward Gerard ‘Ed’ DeMarco
WILMINGTON Edward Gerard “Ed” DeMarco, 82, peacefully passed away Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at home surrounded by family.
He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Elizabeth Ellen DeMatteo; son, David DeMarco of Saratoga Springs, New York; daughter, Debra DeMarco of Brooklyn, New York; stepsons, Brian Dugan of Norfolk, Virginia, and Andrew Dugan of Denver, Colorado; six grandchildren and one great-grandson; and brother, Dennis DeMarco of Englewood, New Jersey.
Mr. DeMarco was born March 1, 1939, to the late Edward DeMarco and the late Ethel Burfeind DeMarco Larson. He had one sister, Lorraine DeMarco, who preceded him in death.
Ed grew up in Queens, New York, and Lancaster, California, graduating from Jamaica High School, State University of Agricultural and Technical Institute and the Empire State College of New York.
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Developers revise plans for 340+ unit apartment complex in West Ashley
VIDEO: Developers revise plans for 340+ unit apartment complex in West Ashley By Live 5 Web Staff | January 28, 2021 at 6:00 AM EST - Updated January 28 at 6:54 AM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Revised plans for a new apartment complex in West Ashley slightly reduce the number of new homes that would come to the area.
The Founders Yard complex will be just off the corner of Glenn McConnell Parkway and William E. Murray Boulevard, which is adjacent to West Ashley High School.
Plans include four buildings, all four stories high, across approximately 13 acres of land.
Vivian Cooper passed away from cancer in 2009 but she will always hold a special place in my memory from the summer she spent as a life guard and one of the swimming team coaches at McAdenville in 1972.
I still remember my surprise and excitement as she pulled up into the parking lot at the pool that summer and got out of her old blue beat-up Rambler Station Wagon. My first thought was what’s this cool, pretty girl doing driving that old thing. Taking a closer look, I realized it was Vivian Cooper. I didn’t know her personally but I did know who she was for two reasons.