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On this episode of The Newsroom:
Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo, on challenges facing the city, including public transportation and affordable housing.
Cedric Harrison and Evan Folds, discussing the Northside Food Co-Op’s plans to build a cooperative grocery store in one of the region’s key food deserts.
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A shoreline nourishment project is underway at Carolina Beach in 2019, with Wrightsville Beach seen in the distance. Funds for upcoming nourishment projects approved for area beaches has been directed elsewhere. (Port City Daily/Michael Praats)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY The end-of-year federal spending packages signed in Washington left the beach towns in New Hanover County with the impression that major funding was on its way, with shoreline nourishment projects run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers poised to begin at all three towns.
But when the Corps released its
work plan a guiding document outlining where the funds would go the county’s beach towns were no longer mentioned.
Wilmington police reported decreasing crimes for another year, but its homicide rate in 2020 was alarming. (Port City Daily/Michael Praats) WILMINGTON –…