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Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced plans to reopen a portion of its Concord, N.C., optical fiber manufacturing facility. As previously stated, the company expects it will take approximately six to nine months to restart fiber manufacturing. Production will be paced to meet market demand. "The optical fiber market has witnessed volume growth of greater than 15 percent in each of the last two years," said Eric S. Musser, vice president and general manager of Corning Optical...
WILMINGTON, N.C., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Blue Developers has unveiled plans for a unique nautical community, located on the spectacular Intracoastal Waterway near Wilmington, North Carolina's historic downtown. Primary to the community's design is its focus on nautical lifestyle. Residents can easily cruise to the Atlantic Ocean via the Intracoastal Waterway. The highlight of Anchors Bend is The Marina Club, which features a protected dock and deep-water boat slips ranging in size...
By Jim Nesbitt, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Feb. 8--A Wilmington judge might rule as early as this afternoon whether admitted killer Ann Miller Kontz will be prohibited from having any contact with her 7-year-old daughter. District Judge Phyllis Gorham is also weighing a lengthy visitation request from the child's paternal aunt and grandparents -- the sister and parents of murdered AIDS researcher Eric Miller of Raleigh, who died of arsenic poisoning in 2000. In November 2005,...
By Jason Szep WILMINGTON, Vermont (Reuters) - In her quiet Vermont town, Cynthia Beaudette cannot recall a stranger autumn. The foliage that usually explodes in brilliant reds, yellows and orange across New England, drawing in thousands of tourists and their spending, was the dullest ever, she says. Green leaves clung to trees weeks longer than normal. When they finally turned, gale-force winds and a week of torrential rain knocked many off their limbs. Vacationers that usually storm...
By Gregg Kilday LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tim Kirkman's "Loggerheads," a drama starring Kip Pardue, Tess Harper and Bonnie Hunt in three interlocking stories, was named top American feature at Outfest 2005, the gay and film festival that wrapped in Los Angeles Sunday. The other Grand Jury Award winners were Anahi Berneri's "A Year Without Love" (Un ano sin amor), for international narrative feature; Susan Kaplan's "Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family," for documentary feature;...
RALEIGH, N.C. -- "Fathom," a new NBC series starring Lake Bell, will be filmed in Wilmington. The drama, about a new form of life lurking in the sea, will begin shooting in July, according to a news release Friday from state legislators who got the news from NBC Universal studio officials this week. Bell played lawyer Sally Heep on the ABC legal drama "Boston Legal." The pilot for "Fathom," which is set to premiere this fall, was shot in California. NBC chose...
