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Aug 15, 17 •
198 Views • FEATURE MAIN, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • No Comments
A steady drum roll on my tin roof tells me it is raining. Outside my window, water falls, filtering through serrated leaves of the pecan tree and satiating tomato plants and form streamlets which find their way into the Cape Fear River. Then they go into the...
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Aug 8, 17 •
216 Views • FEATURE MAIN, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • No Comments
In a small city on the banks of a river, there is growing concern about the discharge of a perfluoroalkyl chemical known as GenX into the river by international chemical manufacturing company Chemours. The local water plant cannot filter out the substance;...
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Jul 18, 17 •
211 Views • FEATURE SIDEBAR, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • No Comments
Last Monday the Downtown Business Alliance hosted a panel of speakers from Clean Cape Fear—a group upstarted by Cape Fear River Watch and other local professionals, scientists and concerned citizens—to answer questions business owners may have regarding...
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Jul 11, 17 •
257 Views • FEATURE MAIN, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • 1 Comment
“What I’ve seen over and over again in my work as an environmentalist is environmental injustice,” Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette explained. “Whether it’s where we put landfills, or hazardous material incinerators, or build factory farms or...
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Jul 5, 17 •
386 Views • FEATURE MAIN, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • No Comments
The GenX story continues in the Cape Fear...
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Jun 27, 17 •
352 Views • FEATURE SIDEBAR, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • 2 Comments
Reports from the GenX community forum last week...
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Jun 20, 17 •
606 Views • FEATURE MAIN, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • 1 Comment
And, so, Tap Watergate begins...
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May 2, 17 •
479 Views • FEATURE SIDEBAR, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • No Comments
At the edge of a saltwater creek behind Masonboro Island, where the rippled water stills to meet green groves of Spartina, Elizabeth Colhoun, education and stewardship specialist for the NC Coastal Reserve, spots something in the water. Just for an instant it...
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Mar 28, 17 •
569 Views • FEATURE SIDEBAR, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • 1 Comment
John Wolfe attends Sister Cities Association's panel on Brexit, and guest speakers compare practices and outcomes of the Leave.EU campaign with the 2016 US presidential election...
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Feb 7, 17 •
641 Views • FEATURE BOTTOM, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • 1 Comment
It is a bright sunny afternoon in late January. The rolling greens of the Echo Farms Golf and Country Club, established in 1974, sporadically populate well-dressed and suntanned golfers, homeowners raking pine needles in their immaculate backyards, a lone...
