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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT
The WHQR News Team has recapped several major stories for the year, and now, it’s your turn to let us know what events you think were most important and have had the biggest impact on our community.Then, tune in the week of December 26-30 when WHQR will be airing its 2011 Top Ten Countdown.

#8 News Story of 2011: Brian Berger

 

In an unprecedented move this fall, four members of the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners asked their fifth member, Brian Berger, to resign.

WHQR’s Asia Brown reports that Berger refused and remains on the board. The commissioner’s volatile year as an elected official made it to #8 on our end-of-year story countdown.

Just a few months before the September press conference, Berger was arrested for assault in what police say was a domestic dispute. He spent a night in jail before the charge was later dropped.

Then in August, Berger was admitted to New Hanover Regional Medical Center after sending text messages of self-inflicted wounds. Berger later denied a suicide attempt.

At the press conference, board members said that Berger’s run-ins with the law and continued personal issues were distracting and that the bad publicity has been harmful to the county’s reputation.

Since then, Berger has continued making headlines for violating a domestic violence protection order.

Tune in all this week as we air WHQR’s 2011 Top Ten Countdown of news stories across the Cape Fear region and state. 

After growing up in Woodbridge, Virginia, Michelle attended Virginia Tech before moving to Wilmington to complete her Master in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. Her reporting and nonfiction writing have been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, within the pages of Wrightsville Beach Magazine, and in literary journals like River Teeth and Ninth Letter. Before moving to Wilmington, Michelle served as the general manager for WUVT, a community radio station in Blacksburg, Virginia. She lives with her husband Scott and their pups, Katie, Cooper, and Mosey.