Do you want to know if your employer got a Paycheck Protection Plan or PPP loan? And for how much?
More than 8,000 businesses in New Hanover County did, with more than 50 receiving over $1 million.
Want to know which companies got taxpayer-funded loans? Search our database that is tracking this information.
Who in the Wilmington area got a Paycheck Protection Program or PPP loans during the pandemic?
This searchable website looks at which companies got money from last year s federal program to help businesses retain their workers amid the pandemic economic shutdown.
What is a PPP loan?
A PPP loan is a Small Business Authority-backed loan that helps businesses keep their workforce employed during the COVID-19 crisis. According to the SBA, the Paycheck Protection Program ended on May 31, 2021.
A suspect wanted for first-degree murder in Pender County was shot and killed by U.S. Marshals in Columbus County Thursday afternoon.
Columbus County District Attorney Jon David held a press conference Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Whiteville Police Department to address the officer-involved shooting.
David confirmed that at around 2:30 p.m., William Dean Hewett, 54, of Atkinson, was fatally shot by the task force while they were attempting to serve a warrant at the Walmart in Whiteville.
Hewett was wanted in connection with the murder of Brandy Lynn Price, who was his estranged girlfriend found dead on the street on Saturday in Atkinson. Members of the Pender County Sheriff s Office were also on scene originally, David said.
While seeking answers for disturbed gravesites in Hampstead, Michael Garrison stood up and read a long list of family members buried at the cemetery near Edens Lane. When they sent the bush hog out there, he damaged (the headstone) of Robert Fuller - my great-grandfather, but there was other markers out there as well that have been damaged, moved and destroyed, Garrison said.
During a Thursday meeting at the annex building, he wasn’t the only one in the audience when asked by developers about the Old Woodside Cemetery. The purpose of the gathering hosted by Logan Developers through Pender County officials was to reach an understanding about what happened in the spring and to get new information – but emotions flared between the community members and representatives of Logan Developers, Inc.
Conservatives want to ban critical race theory in schools
EDITOR: Banning the teaching of our nation’s history of racism (sometimes known as critical race theory”) represents the worst effort to silence this discussion in our community.
Conservatives are literally making it illegal to have the discussion in schools. How can our teachers help students understand slavery and the events of 1898 (the massacre of Black people and the targeted destruction of black power, wealth and property in our city) without discussing white supremacy?
How can teachers contextualize the events surrounding the murder of George Floyd without teaching students about bias? I understand why Republicans are afraid of these discussions the conversation threatens their supremacy but it takes some gall to turn around and accuse Democrats of “cancel culture” and trying to ban history.
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