Commissioner Deb Hays raises vaccine supply concerns to legislators
30,000 vaccine doses coming to Walgreen s locations By Anna Phillips | February 3, 2021 at 7:04 PM EST - Updated February 3 at 11:54 PM
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - The news that Walgreens pharmacies across our state will receive 30,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines was met with some immediate concern from local government officials in New Hanover County who want to see a greater supply of vaccine to the county.
She wrote, in part:
“I have heard from our legislators,” Hays said Wednesday afternoon. “Every single one of them has responded back [saying] ’yes we will ask the questions. Thank you so much for sending the email.’”
An attempt by Design Solutions to expand an
RV park near Carolina Beach was continued to the February board of commissioners meeting.
Battleship Cycles and Marine
Battleship Marine plans on building a dealership and showroom on Market Street, north of the Military Cutoff intersection. (Port City Daily/Courtesy New Hanover County)
In between a CubeSmart storage facility and a veterinary hospital on Market Street, there is an undeveloped tract of land that the owners hope to turn into a boat dealership, with retail space for boats, motorcycles and ATVs.
Development in the area has previously been untenable, since the veterinary clinic next door possesses a septic system that sits in the wooded area between both properties. Further, there is a 41-inch heritage oak nearby the septic system, limiting potential plans.
New Hanover County chair Julia Olson-Boseman speaks at a Dec. 9 press conference with the board of education. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands) NEW…
Among the issues that have frequented headlines and been the topic of public conversation and debate in 2020, the sale of New Hanover Regional Medical Center sits high on the list.
When a divided New Hanover County Board of Commissioners voted to pursue the possible sale of the largest employer in the county in September 2019, officials and citizens had questions about what the sale would mean for the future of the hospital and the area.
Since then critics of the sale, like Save Our Hospital Inc., have said the process was rushed, lacked transparency and feared a sale could not only lower the quality of care and increase costs, but put taxpayer money in the hands of groups not from the county.
By Scott Nunn, posted Dec 18, 2020
New Hanover County Board of Elections workers fielded more absentee ballots this year. (Photo by Michael Cline Spencer) New Hanover County voters leaned Democratic at the top of the ticket in the 2020 General Election, but, as with many other states and locales, the coattails of federal and statewide candidates didn’t extend far into races closer to home. Two open seats on the county board of commissioners remained occupied by Republicans, and the GOP fared well in the area’s General Assembly elections.
As with much of everything else in the Year of COVID, the 2020 general election was one like no other – not so much in its final outcome but in how the results actually were reached.