Wilmington gets a new school, Chick-fil-A is growing, Labor Day forecast

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'Not to be satisfied': First new school in 50 years sparks joy, optimism in Wilmington

Harold Ingram already warned them he needed energy.

"Mau-rice?" the Glasgow principal yelled into his mic.

"Pritchett!" a crowd of hundreds spread before him screamed back. Ingram tested their energy a few more times. Families, educators and state leaders alike flooded an intersection in the heart of Eastside Wilmington, half-shaded by a towering façade unlike any of its neighbors, writes Kelly Powers.

A near-twinkling, two-story school building blocked that late-August sun. The first new school for Wilmington in 50 years, with colossal blue letters just over the speaker's head, also carried the name of a veteran city educator from the same streets: Maurice Pritchett Sr. Academy.

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