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It’s been just over a year since New Hanover County leaders, and particularly County Chair Julia Olson-Boseman, pushed for a redesign of Wave. The county cited funding shortfalls, and a need for new leadership. Now, Wave’s new Executive Director Marie Parker is tasked with overseeing the transit system’s reboot.
Parker isn’t a stranger to North Carolina or public transportation. She joins Wave after spending 21 years at GoRaleigh, the transit system operating in you guessed it Raleigh.
“I actually started out in the finance department. So I started out in a data entry position, or a data cleanup position. So working with ridership and revenue.”
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On Thursday, January 28th, the Cape Fear Housing Coalition hosted their annual Legislative Breakfast online. They returned to a theme from last year: other cities’ success in creating affordable housing bonds, which the Cape Fear region has yet to adopt.
During the meeting, the presenters talked about Raleigh passing an $80 million housing bond last November. Charlotte did too, one worth $50 million. They even brought up Fayetteville’s plan to have one sometime in the next year or so.
Katrina Knight is the executive director of the Good Shepherd Center, and she played host for the breakfast.
Your garbage collector may not be what comes to mind first when someone says “hero” but Larry Hankins and Daniel Perry have had two saves in the last few months alone.
Over a year after announcing a lead hazard reduction program, the city of Wilmington is moving along with its initiative to mitigate lead paint risks in
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