Earlier this year, Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo declared May 31 as Frances Weller Day. That not an honor most people in the news business receive — but most people in that business don't have a career like Weller's. We'll sit down to hear more about her 40 years at WECT.
In the mid 2000s, New Hanover County Schools received a violence prevention federal grant worth around $9 million dollars. The University of North Carolina Wilmington was awarded about $1.7 million to run the evaluation of the program. But as WHQR’s Rachel Keith reports, the documentation for it has all but disappeared — a mystery that's even more compelling given the renewed pressure on local officials to address the problem of violence.
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