Wilmington, NC News

By Anna BrownStarNews Intern

Professional cake decorators can take two weeks, or more, to complete their designs. Wilmington native Anna Echols can do it in nine hours.

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One big idea plus 100 coins per child equals more than $1,500 raised by Cape Fear Center for Inquiry students to help earthquake victims in Haiti.

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The following are excerpts from Cape Fear Watchdog$, the politics and government blog of the StarNews. Find these and other posts at Watchdogs.blogs.StarNewsOnline.com.

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By Ana RibeiroAna.Ribeiro@StarNewsOnline.com

Although local school districts acknowledge teaching a foreign language is important, budget crunches have pushed the idea aside in favor of other priorities.

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By Lori Kennedy-StewartStarNews Correspondent

Wilmington | John Canada fell asleep in the movie theater while on his first date with his future wife of 49 years, Wanda Canada.“It was love at first sight on both sides,” she said.

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