The Amped Journal - Thursday, August 13, 2026

Uncurated edition - Claude was unavailable this run, so items below are top posts by signal score.

Tech Wilmington: Upcoming Events Calendar. Here is a look at upcoming events of interest to the region’s tech and startup industry. To share an event, email newsroom@wilmingtonbiz.com. Aug. 12 Every week, UNCW’s CIE hosts 1 Million Cups Wilmington, a forum for entrepreneurs to pitch to and learn from their peers. This week's presentation is from Bennett Motorsports Support. Click for more. Aug. 27 The Network for Entrepreneurs (NEW) is hosting its next AI Roundtable discussion from 5:30 p.m. to…

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Area Companies Land On 2026 National List Of Fastest-growing Firms. Several firms headquartered in the Wilmington area have ranked on the Inc. 5000 annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. Those that make the list are ranked according to their percentage revenue growth over three years, from 2022 to 2025, according to business publication Inc. Magazine, which publishes the list each year. To qualify, firms must be privately held, for-profit, based in the U.S. and indepen…

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Kure Beach Keeps An Eye On The Future. Kure Beach is a small town, under 1 square mile in area with less than 3,000 residents. Unlike a lot of other communities in the Wilmington area, its population isn’t expected to grow a lot more in the years to come. The Pleasure Island municipality has less than 170 buildable vacant lots left, said Kure Beach Mayor Allen Oliver. “We can’t grow. We’ve got Carolina Beach to the north and state property to the south,” he said. “We’re pretty much boxed in.” A…

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New Bank Laws Aims To Halt Scams. A state law that went into effect July 2 allows financial institutions to put transactions on pause for 30 business days if financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person is suspected. With billions in losses reported each year nationally, “financial scamming is an enormous industry. Scammers literally go to work every single day to separate people from their money,” said Sabrina Sells, senior vice president and Wilmington market president for North St…

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Public Comments Fuel Fight Over Hospital Beds. Hundreds of New Hanover County residents submitted letters supporting UNC Health’s proposed hospital, including some independent healthcare providers and former Novant Health employees. The comments were submitted ahead of a public hearing on the projects, scheduled for Aug. 20 at 1 p.m. in the meeting room of the Arboretum Education Center. Three health care providers – UNC Health, Atrium Health and Novant Health – are competing for acute care bed…

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Brunswick Board OKs Victaulic Expansion. Brunswick County planning officials approved Victaulic’s planned expansion of its Leland Innovation Park facility this week, which is expected to grow the company’s local capabilities and create new jobs. The proposed 230,000-square-foot addition would more than triple the company’s current 108,135-square-foot facility at 2010 Enterprise Drive NE in Leland. It will grow the facility’s manufacturing and warehouse capacity while housing new automation equi…

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Bridging Gaps In Cancer Care. When Kara Kenan was diagnosed with breast cancer at 35 and told she would need radioactive chemotherapy, all she can remember is that she couldn’t get the song Radioactive by Imagine Dragons out of her head. “Often, when patients are first diagnosed, you have to realize that their capacity is completely overwhelmed,” Kenan said. “Many times, the way that we address that is we hand them a bunch of brochures.” In 2017, Kenan founded Wilmington-based nonprofit organiz…

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Gardner Guides Students On, Off Court. Onya Gardner holds two high-level leadership positions at Brunswick Community College as both associate vice president of continuing education and workforce development and the BCC head women’s basketball coach. While these are two distinctly different jobs, she said her goal is always the same. “I have a servant’s heart. I just want to help people, to lend a hand. I genuinely want to do that,” Gardner said. She started working at BCC 18 years ago as a rec…

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