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Recorded live at UNCW's Burney Center on October 7, WHQR joined Port City Daily, WECT, and The Seahawk to put questions to the five candidates running for two seats on the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners. -
This week, the county’s Technical Review Committee revoked an earlier conditional approval for Hilton Bluffs, a major subdivision project planned for the Sledge Forest region of New Hanover County. It effectively sends Charlotte-based developer Copper Builders back to the drawing board.
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Recorded live at UNCW's Burney Center on October 7, WHQR joined Port City Daily, WECT, and The Seahawk to put questions to the five candidates running for two seats on the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners.
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Courtesy Garrett Garms, Winston-Salem State UniversityThe Simon Green Atkins House was built in 1893 in Columbia Heights, an early Black middle-class neighborhood in Winston-Salem.
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