Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The University of North Carolina Wilmington is continuing its overflow housing practice in the upcoming school year as it expects to enroll around 275 students more than beds available on campus. This represents around 10% of the incoming freshmen class. As customary, freshmen are required to live on campus, though since […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A proposal to strengthen and expand building rules in Leland’s flood zone will not be indefinitely sidelined, proponents of the changes say. “I’m not going to let this die,” said Leland Councilmember Veronica Carter. “I will bring this up at every single meeting until we get some sort of ordinance.” Carter, […]
Richard Craver/The (Greensboro) News & Record The board of directors of Wells Fargo & Co. are rewarding — both monetarily and by promotion — the work of chief executive Charlie Scharf in guiding the bank out of nearly nine years of regulatory purgatory. On Thursday, the board notified shareholders and the financial service sector it […]
Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice Following a July 30 announcement from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) that it was, “rescinding all designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS),” the fate of future domestic wind energy development is uncertain. The BOEM release references a Presidential Memorandum titled “Temporary Withdrawal of […]
Jonathan Bym/The (Southern Pines) Pilot The fire service has a simple credo: When a call comes, you go. You ride the rig you have, work with the tools on the truck, employ the skills you’ve been taught, and function as one team with all who respond. And yet, that’s getting harder to do in Moore […]
