“Liquor by the drink made the restaurant business in Wilmington," Merritt said. "It absolutely busted it wide open.” The organization also put an emphasis on shifting downtown away from an ...

THE WINNER OF THE POLL: This Wilmington-area restaurant has the best fries ... which was established in 1983 on College Road in Wilmington? Merritt’s Burger House: "They do old school right ...

Smokin’ Jimmies Chicken & Seafood won first place in the StarNews reader poll for best wings in the Wilmington ... Rebellion NC, Whiskey Trail Pub & Grill and On Thyme Restaurant.

PINEHURST — What’s on the menu at the 2024 U.S. Open in Pinehurst ... Sunset Slush out of Brunswick County, as well as Merritt’s Store and Grill from Chapel Hill, are among the food choices ...

An international grocery store chain is coming to Wilmington. Tropicana Supermarkets owners have purchased the former Kimbrell’s Furniture building to make way for a new location. The North ...

(WPVI) -- A Wilmington man has been charged with killing his former girlfriend, whose body was found Wednesday in a trash bin. Twenty-year-old Idrees Merritt is being held without bail, charged ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Local author Gene Merritt has written several articles about the change in downtown Wilmington over the past four decades. Now, those are collected along with new material in ...

Miprecious L. Hoskins, 20, was found dead in a trash can on Locust Street in Wilmington. Idrees Merritt was taken into custody in the case and has been charged. A 20-year-old Wilmington man under ...

NC (WECT) - A Wilmington man apologized to the woman whose home he admitted to burglarizing last year and said he regretted the decision immediately after it happened. According to the District ...

Gene Merritt has watched downtown Wilmington change and evolve all his life. Growing up in Wilmington, downtown was the city's central shopping district -- home to department stores like Belk ...