Source: Adam Wagner, NEWS & OBSERVER, 9/11/19


About $5 million intended for Hurricane Florence disaster relief may instead be used to enhance one of Southeast North Carolina’s most popular tourist attractions. A News & Observer review of the N.C. General Assembly’s budget documents found that money designated “to support repairs” actually would partly fund a 20,000-square-foot expansion at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher — which suffered far less damage during the September 2018 hurricane than the $5 million included in the budget.

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