Gerard Albert III
Rural Communities Reporter at Blue Ridge Public Radio
Reporter covering Rural Communities in Western North Carolina for @BlueRidgePublic and @Report4America
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6 days ago |
bpr.org | Gerard Albert III
The city of Brevard is moving along with plans for the Ecusta Trail, despite federal grants of about $45 million for the project undergoing review from the Trump administration. City Manager Wilson Hooper said the U.S. Department of Transportation is looking into thegrants because the trail contains bike infrastructure.
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1 week ago |
bpr.org | Gerard Albert III
Removal of debris Hurricane Helene buried in the deepest parts of Lake Lure began this week, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The agency has worked to clear debris throughout western North Carolina for more than 200 days, and this week moved from removing debris on the surface of Lake Lure to debris that sank to the bottom.
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2 weeks ago |
bpr.org | Gerard Albert III
Procrastinators have a bit of a grace period this tax season. The Internal Revenue Service issued an automatic extension on the tax filing deadline to everyone in North Carolina. People and businesses in the state have to file their 2024 federal and state returns by Thursday, May 1, 2025. If a taxpayer’s address is in a disaster area – like North Carolina – they will automatically get the extra time without having to ask for it.
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2 weeks ago |
wunc.org | Gerard Albert III
Trees blown down by Hurricane Helene impeded hundreds of firefighters working to control wildfires that burned thousands of acres throughout the Carolinas last month. And the problem could last decades. While the most recent wildfires – the largest in western North Carolina in almost a decade – are mostly contained, firefighters have only just begun to see how the worst storm in the state’s history made fighting fires more complicated.
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3 weeks ago |
wunc.org | Gerard Albert III
As wildfires burned throughout Western North Carolina in recent days, many first responders found themselves fighting fires in their own backyards. BPR spoke with North Carolina Forest Service employees who live in counties affected by the fires. Bridgit Gallagher, a finance section chief, worked on the Black Cove Complex fire. Gallagher lives in the Flat Rock neighborhood of Henderson County, where she and her family could see the fire from their home.
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