The state has been selected for a $242 million federal grant to go toward replacing the 1969 Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in Wilmington.
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Wilmington set for Earth Day festival at Long Leaf Park
Hosted by the Wilmington Earth Day Alliance, the theme this year is “Planet vs. Plastics,” and there is no charge to attend.
Hubble telescope exhibit gives hands-on experience
The immersive “Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe” exhibit will be in Cape Fear Museum of History and Science through June 23.
The other coup d’état: Remembering New Bern in 1898
Historian David Cecelski uses old newspaper clippings to show how Wilmington’s bloody takeover was not the only example of the state’s well organized and propaganda-fueled 1880s-1890s white supremacy movement.