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Charlotte Animal Care & Control Officer Chris Meyer talks about how the agency has changed over time, including prioritizing the adoption and re-homing of animals.
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In 2020, when COVID-19 was sweeping the globe, the country and the state, more than 1,700 correctional officers left their jobs at North Carolina prisons.
That’s a 14% increase from the number of officers who left in 2019 and the biggest jump in more than a decade, according to an analysis of
Part of the reason for the increase? Prisons in North Carolina and nationwide were a Latosha Newsome, a former Neuse correctional officer
Last December, Latosha Newsome left her job as a correctional officer at Neuse Correctional Institution, a nearly 800-bed minimum- and medium-security prison in Goldsboro in eastern North Carolina. She had been at Neuse less than a year. She now works at the jail in Wayne County.
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Sugarloaf Trail at Carolina Beach State Park, where visits increased by 79% in 2020. The park saw an increase in ‘social trails’ created by visitors, resulting in unwanted impacts.
North Carolina residents hit the outdoors in record numbers last year as COVID-19 spread throughout the state and it impacted state parks in new ways that environmental officials are still managing.
The state park system welcomed a total of 19.8 million visitors in 2020, which is 400,000 more than the system’s previous high in 2017.
“That is because during the pandemic, when a lot of other venues for recreation were closed, people were seeking something that they could do that was active, that was away from their house, where they felt safe during the pandemic,” said Katie Hall, public information officer for the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation.