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Stolen construction vehicles, equipment recovered from Northeast Cape Fear River
Stolen vehicle and trailer were pulled from the Cape Fear River Wednesday By WECT Staff | March 17, 2021 at 2:34 PM EDT - Updated March 18 at 11:15 AM
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Two work trucks, two trailers, and two mini excavators that were stolen from a Castle Hayne construction company were recovered near a Northeast Cape Fear River boat ramp on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the sheriffâs office said the agency received a report from Ansco & Associates that the construction equipment were stolen early Wednesday morning from their location on Crowatan Road.
Podcast returns with moving story of captain, devoted dog lost in 1880 fire
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Welcome to the Cape Fear Unearthed newsletter! Every episode of the podcast and other local history content delivered right to your inbox every week!
This week, the podcast returns with its first 2021 episode featuring one of this most popular stories in this region s history. Capt. William A. Ellerbrock and his devoted dog, Boss, were inseparable in Wilmington in the 1870s.
A 1880 fire in downtown would rob them of a future, but it didn t keep them from being together until the end. This week s episode looks at who they were, what happened to them that fateful night in April 1880 and why their story is bigger than just its tragedy.
in places that are already saturated. now let me get you to some gauges here. this is the alarming risk of what we re seeing in north carolina. this is the cape fear river near fayetteville, it was down here at 15 on friday, now it s up to 62 feet high, forecast chest at 61.5, we will round it up. for the whack mau river at conway going to 19 feet from 8, well over record stage, but that doesn t happen until sunday. these record rainfalls in these still coming downhill will still create more flooding. here is the northeast cape fear river, the gauge broke at 24 because that was the upper limit. no one ever thought that we would ever get higher than that. now we have no idea. we have no idea where this river is at this point. let me get to something else that s alarming. there s 1,100 road closures. if you say to somebody at work today nothing happened in this hurricane, tell that to these people who have 1,100 roads they can t drive on and waters in some places are still rising.
we are feeling florence s effects. governor roy cooper saying it best, this storm is unleashing epic amounts of rainfall and it is not done yet. and there will be flooding and cresting of rivers to come in the next several days. want to take you to rocky point, north carolina and kaylee hartung. you have been making your way around the state there to some of the hardest-hit areas. what are you seeing there at rocky point? reporter: well, erica, florence s winds didn t do much more than knock out the power and knock over the play set, but susan and her family know what the water could bring, what the rainfall could bring and northeast cape fear river that s flowing onto your property. she and her grandson tucker join me now. susan, you stayed through yesterday, you say it is time to go. why. what are your fears? the river is coming into our property. you say this isn t your first rodeo. you lived through floyd.