The Maine Lobster Company opened in February. The “Stonington” is served on a toasted, warm split-top roll topped with 4 oz. of fresh lobster meat caught off the coast of Maine. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
Gene Merritt at a Save Our Hospital meeting in March. The lights in City Hall temporarily went out in the middle of the press conference. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
(Top) Rebecca Trammel, founder of the non-profit Champions for Compassion, carries a foldable table across Rankin Street to set up a meal pick-up station at Rankin Terrace for children who could not otherwise access meals available for pick-up at various New Hanover County Schools. (Bottom) Rachel Freeman School of Engineering Principal Dionne Sturdivant shares an elbow bump with a student during meal pick-up hours as schools remain closed due to the coronavirus. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
By mid-March, New Hanover County Chairwoman Julia Olson-Boseman confirmed that 28 tests had been taken in the county but zero confirmed cases of Covid-19. Just two days later, she announced the county's first presumptive positive case of Covid-19, and an increase of total tests to 65. (Port City Daily photo/Mark Darrough)
Single mother Tiffany Bradley, 37, takes care of eight children in Wilmington’s northside. “I don’t count on apples I don’t have in my hands. Because the apples that I’ve got, I need them to feed the kids,” she said of rationing both food and money during the coronavirus outbreak. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
(Top) Thirteen-year-old twins Hadlie and James McAbee look outside their Wilmington house during the coronavirus stay-at-home order with handmade masks their family makes from their living room. (Bottom) Tatum, 10, and Landon Aarnink, 7, peer through the window from the “Aarnink Academy,” a dining room their mom has designated as a learning space during the stay-at-home order in Wilmington. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
(Left) Julie Romero, owner of Hands in the Sands, looks at her N.C. Department of Employment Security portal, hoping for an update that hasn’t yet come. (Right) Aida Maldonado in her salon, Power of Beauty in Wilmington, closed for four weeks due to the coronavirus under government orders. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
(Top) Public health nurse Tammy Dilling, who teaches at three schools in the county, was eager to join the frontline in fighting the pandemic. “I’m very blessed and excited. Public health is our role – we’re assigned school health but public health is our passion and our life,” she said. (Port City Daily photo/Mark Darrough)
Chase Duncan sprinkles P.T.’s Grille’s “gold dust,” the restaurant’s signature lemon pepper seasoning on burgers late April. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
(Top) Brent Featherstone smokes a cigarette and drinks a Miller High Life from the second-story balcony of Olde Salty in Carolina Beach on its reopening day Friday. (PCD/JFS). (Bottom) Kristen Gruodis, who owns Little Dipper Fondue with her husband, enjoys ice cream with her sons, Taj at left and Indy beside him. (PCD/MD)
(Top) Moms-N-Mourning founder Judie McKnight gets shade from the sun under the Michelle Obama umbrella. (Bottom) (From left) City Councilman Clifford Barnett, New Hanover County Sheriff Ed McMahon, Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo, and Senator Harper Peterson stand in prayer at the 1898 memorial. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
(Top left, clockwise) Carolina Beach residents talk inside a carport just over an hour before Hurricane Isaias makes landfall to the southeast at Ocean Isle, 9:51 p.m. Monday; A Carolina Beach resident takes a picture of her home, 6:33 a.m. Tuesday; A heavy wind gust whips down Lumberton Avenue, 10:05 p.m,;A man drives a golf cart beneath the lines coming from a damaged electric pole, 7:13 a.m. Tuesday morning. (Port City Daily photo/Mark Darrough)
(Counter-clockwise from top) Vacationer Michael Davis carries his two-year-old son Wilkes through flooded East Pelican Drive, passing by one of many submerged vehicles claimed by Hurricane Isaias; A group of young men hitch a ride in the back of a pickup truck to cross East Pelican Drive, glancing at a submerged vehicle as they pass; Kathy Ipapo looks to see if a large wood-framed couch was submerged in her pool after Hurricane Isaias. Her neighbors later found it in their backyard; Three-year-old Chandler Darnell plays in a shelf of sand off East Beach Drive, pushed up by bulldozers attempting to clear the roads after Hurricane Isaias. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
(Counterclockwise from top) A member of the Knights of Columbus – Council 1074 marches down Chestnut Street; Back the Blue protestors walk past diners on Front Street in July; A member of the American Honor Guards of North Carolina marches down the sidewalk on Front Street. (Port City Daily photo/Mark Darrough)
(Center) Save Our Hospitals’ attorney Alex Hall holds up contact information for the N.C. Attorney General and State Treasurer while urging supporters to raise their concerns regarding the hospital sale; Save Our Hospital supporter Neal Shulman holds up signs while facing proponents of the hospital sale on Princess Street. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
WPD Chief Donny Williams crouches behind a patrol vehicle while talking on his cell phone during a nine-hour standoff in Creekwood; Neighbors watch the scene near a memorial for Zalleux Johnson, who was shot and killed in Creekwood South in February 2019. In the shooting’s aftermath, then-WPD Chief Ralph Evangelous and Johnson’s mother begged for an end to all attempts at retaliation. According to Evangelous, the shooting was considered gang-related. (Port City Daily photo / Mark Darrough)
Vice President Mike Pence addresses a crowd of supporters at the Wilmington International Airport on a campaign stop one week before Election Day. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
A rally attendee adorned with President Donald Trump and Lt. Governor Dan Forest buttons stands in the crowd while awaiting the vice president’s arrival. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
A county employee sits among dozens of boxes, used to store either election equipment or PPE; New Hanover County Democratic Party chairman Richard Poole (center) compares notes with attendees at the New Hanover County Board of Elections meeting; New Hanover County Board of Elections member Derrick Miller inspects a pile of absentee by-mail ballot envelopes prior to approving them at the board’s meeting. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
(Left) New Hanover County Commissioner Deb Hays lets out a “Woohoo!” after taking a seat behind the dais for the first time; A county employee removes former Commissioner Woody White’s framed portrait from the historic county courthouse, preparing to replace his spot with new commissioner Bill Rivenbark. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
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Mark Darrough, Johanna F. Still