Coastal Merchants Expecting Good Summer Tourist Season

By Michael Futch Staff writer, The Fayetteville Observer
Sat, 05/28/2016 - 6:00am

SURF CITY - Vinita Gass manages the Surf City Ocean Pier - all 937 feet of the spindly-legged wooden structure that pokes out into the Atlantic.

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