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NC, VA Meetings To Detail Duke Energy Coal Ash Settlement
Meetings scheduled for next month will explain an agreement between government officials and Duke Energy wrapping up the restoration obligations the country's largest electricity company faces for a massive spill of burned coal residues five years ago.
Federal, North Carolina, and Virginia agencies announced Friday two public information sessions to answer questions on Aug. 6 in Danville, Virginia, and Aug. 7 in Eden, North Carolina.
The leak of waste Duke Energy stored after burning coal for power coated about 70 miles from a power plant on the Dan River, on the border of the two states.
Greensboro Will Survey African American Buildings
The city of Greensboro will use federal grant money to help it inventory homes, churches and public buildings designed and built by African Americans.
The News & Record reports Greensboro has received a $12,000 Historic Preservation Fund grant for the project. The city also is spending $10,000 on the survey.
City senior planner Mike Cowhig says state officials have suggested that Greensboro do a comprehensive survey of buildings associated with African American designers because some communities are underrepresented in historic preservation.
The city said in a news release that the first phase will focus on modernist structures in eastern Greensboro and Benbow Park that were designed by African American architects.
North Carolina County Gets $2.3M For Hurricane Debris Cleanup
An eastern North Carolina county is receiving more than $2.3 million for reimbursement of debris cleanup from Hurricane Florence.
The state Department of Public Safety says in a news release that the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are providing the money. FEMA already has approved more than $12.2 million to Carteret County for Florence-related expenses.
The latest funds will reimburse the county for contracted debris monitoring services and for the removal of vegetation and other debris from public rights of way.
Political Show 'NC Spin' Won't Have Contract Renewed
A television show on North Carolina politics and public affairs is ending at the end of the year after almost 22 years on the air.
The show features founder and host Tom Campbell leading a discussion of state political issues with four panelists.
Campbell tells The News & Observer he learned in an email that NC Spin will end after its contract is up this year.
Hel told the newspaper he had heard the program was the subject of conversations among members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, after the show was critical of the board over its handling of higher education officials.
Kevin Fitzgerald, the interim executive director and general manager of UNC-TV, told the newspaper it was "a programing decision" not to renew the contract.
North Carolina Group Protests At ICE Detention Center
About 60 people from North Carolina traveled to Virginia this weekend to protest outside of a privately-owned detention center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
WRAL-TV reports that members of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church traveled from Raleigh on Saturday to Farmville, Virginia, to pray and demonstrate outside the facility.
The Rev. Nancy Petty is the pastor at the church. She says people who are being held in detention centers are fleeing violence and persecution.
Petty says the United States needs to find a different way to respond to people who need help.
Petty says these are concerns discussed from the pulpit in church, and members of the group were moved to take their beliefs on the road in protest.
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