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- What is an appropriate amount to pay a minister for conducting a rehearsal and wedding service?
- What is the story with French’s Classic Burgers on Carolina Beach Road?
- At what wind speeds do local bridges close?
- Where are some wheelchair-friendly places to fish in the Cape Fear region?
- What are some wheelchair-accessible activities in Wilmington?
- Whatever happened to the development the ‘Cottages at Price’s Creek’ in Southport and the builder Phil Arroyas?
- Why do I never see female N.C. Highway Patrol officers?
- How long can a burned out home stand in downtown Wilmington? What can be done about it?
- How much money has New Hanover County spent or does it plan to spend on its ‘Underneath it All’ campaign?
- What happens to the data collected by the machines displaying vehicle speeds along roads?
- What is the status of the proposed Lowes Foods in Hampstead?
- What was the history of the Wilmington City Hospital?
- How many police officers are there in the New Hanover and Brunswick county areas? What is the ratio to residents?
- Do cars get ticketed for parking too close to intersections in Wilmington?
- What was the first business in the Indochine building?
- Why do they dye the Carolina Beach Lake?
- Did Carolina Beach buy the Surfside Motor Lodge and the Guy Johnson motel?
- How did the Buffaloe’s convenience store on Wrightsville Avenue get its name?
- Does the proposed contract between R3 and New Hanover County allow R3 to import garbage?
- Does the local health department have jurisdiction over health food bars, etc., made in private homes containing pets/animals but sold in public establishments?
- Why must a family pet’s brain be tested for rabies if it bites its owner and then dies?
- What is being built by the Third Street Bridge over the railroad tracks downtown?
- Why are there 2 crossing guards and a sheriff at Parsley Elementary and not one crossing guard at Myrtle Grove Middle School?
- Why does traffic have to stop on Masonboro Loop Road when turning left onto Pine Grove Drive? Why not put the stop sign on Masonboro Sound Road?
- In case of a flood or hurricane, isn’t the sewage treatment plant on River Road dangerously close to the river?
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