Thank You Wilmington Patch Readers!

Thanks to all of you, October was a banner month for Wilmington Patch!

Last month, 37,606 local residents read 85,937 pages on Wilmington Patch. To put that in perspective, in October 2014, it was 22,632 residents. Across Patch’s network of 913 hyperlocal news sites, more than 17 million people read 47 million pages in October. That’s 5 million more people than the previous October.

We want you to know we’re committed to hyperlocal coverage of Wilmington, and we couldn’t pull it off without all the tips, comments, board and classifieds posts and shares from our readers as well as the support of our local advertisers. Thank you!

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