Burgaw, North Carolina

• Pender County board briefed on updates to facilities
  

  Published: Monday, March 15, 2010 at 11:58 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, March 15, 2010 at 11:58 p.m. Several Pender County facilities have been spiffed up and more refurbishments are planned.

• Learn how to make clay pottery
  

  Published: Monday, March 15, 2010 at 9:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, March 15, 2010 at 9:01 a.m. BURGAW Pender County artist Rick Austin will demonstrate clay pottery sculpture techniques on Tuesday, March 16 at noon at the library in Burgaw.

• Pender courthouse renovations running late but under budget
  

  Patrick Padfield and Colby Miller with Port City Builders pick up materials from the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw to carry to another construction site across the street Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

• Recalling a teacher who built houses and minds
  

  Professor Singleton C. Anderson did pioneering vocational education work in Pender County in the 1920s at the Pender County Training School.

• Former students invited to remember influential training school teacher
  

  Singleton C. Anderson works with students during a vocational class. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection of UNC Chapel Hill Contributed story Published: Monday, March 1, 2010 at 9:29 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, March 1, 2010 at 9:29 a.m. In 1920, a young black man who had just graduated from the Hampton Institute got off the train in ...

• Rocky Point firefighters sell barbecue
  

  Published: Monday, March 1, 2010 at 9:24 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, March 1, 2010 at 9:24 a.m. ROCKY POINT The Rocky Point Volunteer Fire Department will be selling barbecue at the station from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday.

• Beth and the ghosts
  

  Beth Shibley of Burgaw, N.C., didna t believe in ghosts until last April 13. Thata s when she, her mother and her sister spent the night at the historic Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs.

• Medicare help available Wednesday
  

  Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 8:40 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 8:40 a.m. BURGAW Pender Adult Services will host a Medicare-Medicaid Health Event from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at 901 S. Walker St., Burgaw.

• Pender Early College High School students nominated for scholarships
  

  Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 8:44 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 8:44 a.m. BURGAW Stephen Reece, a senior at Pender Early College High School, has been nominated for the prestigious Levine Scholarship at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.

• Pender County plans aim to guide growth, recreation
  

  Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 11:41 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 11:41 a.m. Pender County's long-range plans for land use and zoning to manage its development and sketch its vision for parks and recreation are nearing completion.

• Adopt a senior pet
  

  The Friends of Pender Animal Shelter organization is highlighting a 14-year-old Yorkie , who is available through the Pender County Animal Shelter in Burgaw.

• Man from Pender arrested on drug charges
  

  A man from East Burgaw is under arrest on drug charges. Deputies with the Pender County Sheriff's Office arrested Fred Kent Saunders Friday.

• Horsin' around in the snow in Pender County
  

  With power out for more than a thousand people in Pender County, Saturday was a day to get creative.

• Pender County man arrested on drug charges
  

  A 22-year-old Pender County man has been arrested on series of cocaine related charges.

• Southeastern N.C. records 3 to 6 inches of snow
  

  Snow bent over tree limbs along Everetts Creek Drive in New Hanover County after heavy wet snow blanketed Southeastern North Carolina.

• Blueberry Festival cookbook wins award
  

  Published: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 2:21 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 2:21 p.m. Pender County The cookbook of the N.C. Blueberry Festival in Burgaw won the award for "Best Merchandise" at the recent conference and trade show of the N.C.-S.C. Association of Festivals and Events in Charlotte.

• Locals mark 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America
  

  Andrew Best with Troop 26 in Wilmington leads a crowd of current and former Boy Scouts in reciting the Scout's Law during a ceremony outside the New Hanover County Courthouse marking the organization's 100th anniversary Monday Feb.

• 1951 law adds federal jail time in local cases
  

  Published: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 8:57 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 8:57 p.m. Wilmington Several defendants who admitted committing violent crimes in Southeastern North Carolina either face or have been sentenced to long prison terms in the federal justice system.

• Life of service for Pender County nurse crossed seas
  

  Mary Lee Mills, 98, died Tuesday at Pender Memorial Hospital in Burgaw. Her funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at Lakes Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Atkinson.

City Description

Burgaw is a town in Pender County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,337 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pender County. Burgaw is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. Burgaw is located at 34°33′2″N 77°55′34″W / 34.55056°N 77.92611°W / 34.55056; -77.92611 (34.550506, -77.926075). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.5 square miles (8.9 km²).3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) of it is land and 0.29% is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 3,337 people, 954 households, and 649 families residing in the town. The population density was 971.6 people per square mile (375.6/km²). There were 1,051 housing units at an average density of 306.0/sq mi (118.3/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 51.21% White, 44.89% African American, 0.69% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 2.10% from other races, and 0.99% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.50% of the population. There were 954 households out of which 33.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.7% were married couples living together, 22.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.9% were

City Contained By:

• Pender County
• North Carolina
• United States of America

City Contains:

• Pender County Courthouse
• Burgaw Depot

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 8.80595957514 km squared

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