Halloween News - Wilmington bar owners, leaders to meet about Marines' concerns - StarNewsOnline.com
The issue came to light this spring when sailors from the USS North Carolina arrived ahead of the submarine’s commissioning and were denied entry to some downtown bars. Marines and other members of the military are suffering the same inconvenience as tourists, business people and other passers-by who find themselves in a resort city that doesn’t appear to want them, they say. One of the bar owners’ main goals for Tuesday’s meeting is to ask local legislators to get Wilmington an exemption to the state law. Moseley said that if some bars do use the membership rule as an excuse to deny entry to Marines, it’s only more reason to get rid of it. In 2007, people from Jacksonville or Camp Lejeune, the closest the department could come to tracking Marines, accounted for less than 1 percent of arrests in the city’s central business district. Police release sketch of suspect in sexual assault case Wilmington police have released a sketch of a suspect in the sexual assault and stabbing of a 24-year-old woman at one of downtown Wilmington’s busiest intersections. More Halloween News