Free Wilmington Travel Guide!UPDATE: Power now restored to nearly 11,000 Brunswick residents
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016Nearly 11,000 people in Brunswick County were without power due to a massive outage Wednesday evening.
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Archive for October, 2016
Child uses radio cash prize to help flood victims
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016Alicia Perez said she’d never won anything, until she got the call from radio station Z 107.5—she’d won $50 in a daily cash call. “I was so excited, I said ‘It’s about time!’,” Perez exclaimed. “I had it in my purse and just kind of held on to it because I didn’t know what to do with it yet.” The mother of two said it didn’t take long to figure out, though she didn’t quite make the decision. Her 12-year-ol…
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Cape Fear Games to donate 100% of in-store sales to food bank
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016Cape Fear Games will donate 100% of their sales to the Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina for Hurricane and flood victims on October 22.
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Peanut Farmers Racing to Salvage Crops
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016Hurricane Matthew has left many farmers in southeastern North Carolina hurting. Peanut crops especially have been damage or water soaked due to strong winds and rain. In Bladen County the peanut crops are waterlogged causing them to germinate early, and then in addition rains have also soaked the fields so the tractors and harvesters are getting stuck in the fields so they are unable to pull the peanuts from the vine.
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First at Four: Celebrity chef shares recipe for his food truck’s best seller
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016Keith Rhodes, a Wilmington chef who has appeared on Bravo’s Top Chef and owner of Catch, shared one of his most popular recipes with us on WECT News First at Four.
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