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The average rent in Wilmington is finally dropping after a feverish rise during the Covid-19 pandemic. The city was 17th highest for percent rent increases of every metro in the country. WHQR’s Kelly Kenoyer and Ben Schachtman have the details.
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A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind, and Water, is the newest book from nature writer and New York Times bestselling author David Gessner. His daughter, Hadley, is an undergraduate at New York University. They join us to explore what climate science tells us about the prospect of a hotter, drier, more storm-prone, less livable planet by 2063, the year she turns 60.
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The Brunswick County Board of Elections granted candidacy to Fulton, who collected over 5,222 signatures advocating for his candidacy.
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The Salvation Army has started construction on its Center of Hope in Wilmington, more than a year after the organization’s downtown shelter closed.
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The unfortunate top ranking is the result of limited tenant protections and, in some places, inexpensive eviction filing fees.
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At Tuesday night’s board of education meeting, board members tried to wrap up conversations about the Career Readiness Academy at Mosley and a potential newcomers school in New Hanover County.
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On Tuesday, March 12, education advocates in New Hanover County held a rally drawing attention to the district’s multi-million dollar budget shortfall. The crowd called on officials to invest more in public schools.
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Right now, over a dozen state and federal agencies are hashing out what a replacement for the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge could look like. The next phase of that process will mean determining how tall the bridge should be — which will have a major impact on the cost.
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The Cape Fear Housing Coalition hosted a national expert on homelessness for its housing breakfast this year. WHQR’s Kelly Kenoyer and Ben Schachtman attended, and have the highlights.
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When Lenny Simpson was just 5 years old, tennis great Althea Gibson handed him a tennis racket and called him "champ". That moment changed his life. He went on at age 15 to play his mentor Arthur Ashe in the U.S. Open. Lenny Simpson returned to Wilmington in 2013 and launched One Love Tennis in honor of the mentors who did so much to help him live into his potential.
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Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown! This week Ben joins us to go over elections results and trends.
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Every week, WHQR's Ben Schachtman sits down with The Assembly's Johanna Still to talk about our joint newsletter, The Dive. This week, we broke down some key primary election results — and parsed some of the reasons for the lower-than-usual voter turnout.