The American red squirrel is barely twice the size of a chipmunk and prefers pine forest and pine nuts as a dietary staple.

BRUNSWICK — You know stew season has arrived in Brunswick not by the chill in the air but by when the notoriously mild-mannered locals start slinging verbal tomatoes at “those posers from ...

They made up nearly 4,000 plates of food, gave away more than 450 pounds of eastern North Carolina barbecue and 1,200 quarts of Brunswick stew along with toiletries and school supplies.