As construction wraps up on Howe Street ahead of the holiday weekend, Southport businesses are bustling with activity as they prepare for the North Carolina 4th of July Festival.

Blueberry crisp is a great comfort food and a fun way to use some locally grown blueberries.

On this special edition of Pet of the Week, host Kim Ratcliff met Aurora from the Pender County Animal Shelter during the North Carolina Blueberry Festival.

Due to the pandemic, the festival is returning as an in-person event for the first time since 2019.

The North Carolina Blueberry Festival returns to Burgaw this weekend.

The Pender County Courthouse is a landmark in Burgaw but over the last few years the historic building saw heavy hurricane damage but it reopened nearly a year ago. With heavy water damage from the storm and led paint removal, the repair process took nearly three years to complete and millions of dollars.

Burgaw may be a small town in Pender County, but you can’t deny that it’s growing. In the past 12 years, the population has grown over ten percent.

Paradise Provisions, a Holly Ridge-based business that creates meal kits, will show visitors to the Sneads Ferry Shrimp Festival how to serve up the shrimp they take home from the event

Davis Seafood sells shrimp, crab meat, and fish to locals and has been since the 1940s.

As the Sneads Ferry Shrimp Festival comes up on it 49th year, we’re taking a look back at its history.