Kelly Kenoyer

WHQR • 13th October 2025

The Real Homeless Herald brings real-life experience to housed readers

Every Tuesday, staff of the Real Homeless Herald meet up in a back room of the Day Center in downtown Wilmington to plan out their upcoming issues. It’s a busy space: a homeless shelter where folks can get lunch, a cup of coffee, and some respite during the day.

NPR • 25th September 2025

Dogs take over a public pool in North Carolina

AILSA CHANG, HOST: There is an annual tradition in Wilmington, North Carolina, called the Pooch Plunge. It's where the city invites dogs to its public pool before that pool is drained for the winter. Kelly Kenoyer from member station WHQR sniffed it out.

WHQR • 15th August 2025

The U.S.S. North Carolina's ongoing battle: The test of time

The U.S.S. North Carolina is a piece of living history on the west side of the Cape Fear River — where children can often be seen aiming the anti-aircraft guns at buildings downtown. Built in 1937, the battleship was America's first fast battleship built for the needs of the Navy during World War II.

NPR • 20th July 2025

An invasive species of algae could be behind rising mercury levels in the food chain

Scientists are studying an invasive species of algae they believe can cause an increase in mercury levels in the food chain. From member station WHQR in Wilmington, North Carolina, Kelly Kenoyer explains.

WHQR • 22nd May 2025

Wilmington cyclists honor the dead with annual Ride of Silence

May is National Bike Month, which aims to promote the health benefits and fun of cycling. But it’s also a time to remember those who’ve lost their lives while cycling, particularly with the Ride of Silence.Tammy Swanson is the Education Chair of the Terry Benji Bicycling Foundation, named after a local cyclist who died in a crash in 2013. The group organized this year’s Ride of Silence.“I'm taking part because I ride these roads," she said. "I'm out here. I'm a mother, I'm a wife, I'm a grandmot...

NPR • 6th June 2023

Volunteers helped tally terrapin turtles for science

Scientists are relying more and more on non-scientists to help them gather data. That was the case recently on North Carolina's coast, where volunteers spent a day counting terrapin turtles.

Scientists want to know more about a little turtle called a terrapin, so they've asked volunteers to help count them. Kelly Kenoyer with member station WHQR in Wilmington, N.C., went on a quest to spot these reclusive turtles.

WHQR • 2nd June 2023

The Newsroom: Conversations about Pride, identity, and finding the gay bars

Last month, WHQR hosted its second-ever Cape Fear Conversation —this time, at Waterline Brewing. We invited members of the LGBTQ Community to talk about issues impacting us in North Carolina and the Wilmington Area. We laughed, we cried, and we had a wonderful time. So now, just in time for Pride Month, panel moderator and news reporter Kelly Kenoyer brings you the highlights.
• TR Nunley, Program Director, Wilmington Transgender Community and Admin for the Wilmington Pride Facebook page.
• Qail

Portland Mercury • 27th June 2018

Ruse Brewing Steps into Its Own

For two years, Ruse Brewing has been tucked away inside Culmination Brewing. A few of Culmination’s brewers had decided to start their own project, but without a space of their own, they were hanging out with their old crew and brewing on the margins of their previous brewery’s space. Now Ruse’s founders are stretching their wings and opening their own brewpub, right on the Orange MAX line in Southeast Portland.

Portland Mercury • 27th June 2018

Beer Crawl: Brews Across Buckman

To kick off your epic beer crawl, why not pop into the Lucky Lab? The Portland brewpub chain’s first and best location feels a bit like a barn, and is covered with photos of beloved puppers. It’s a big, spacious venue with plenty of pub food, so it’s the perfect place to meet up if you have a dozen friends in tow. Every time I go, at least two political groups are holding meetings, while others play board games.

Portland Mercury • 23rd May 2018

Oaks Park Has a New Roller Coaster! I Rode It Again and Again and Again!

I grew up as an adrenaline junkie. My dad, despite being an emergency doctor who should probably know better, loves doing dangerous stunts on snowboards and surfboards, blowing things up with fireworks, and, of course, riding epic roller coasters. Oregon doesn’t have many options for the latter, but we made do by blasting off on the crazy slingshot ride at the state fair every summer and otherwise exposing ourselves to significant potential for harm.

My best memories with him include the day we spent at Great America in California on every roller coaster we could find, riding adrenaline highs through heat and long lines. So when I found out there’s was new roller coaster at Oaks Park, I was on it.

Eugene Weekly • 22nd February 2018

Best Bar

I used to live right across the street from The Pint Pot Public House, and although I don’t miss the crappy student housing I had, I do miss that homey little spot. Pint Pot’s regulars and bartenders are always friendly and helpful and down for some banter.

Those who love whiskey can enjoy a comprehensive tasting list divided among countries of origin (you can probably guess which countries).

I’m more of a cocktail and beer gal myself, and Pint Pot always pleases with stiff mixed drinks, inclu

Willamette Week • 4th March 2018

A Former Brooklyn Sculptor is Making Seriously Singular Beers in a Hand-Built Brewery in Grants Pass

Conner built half the furniture in The Haul, including the beautiful bars upstairs and downstairs, using salvaged barn planks and wood from a bowling alley. "To me it's kind of a sculpture," he says. "It's really DIY."

Willamette Week • 4th March 2018

Plank Town Brewing Almost Single-Handedly Breathed Life Into Downtown Springfield

Plank Town almost single-handedly breathed life into Springfield's downtown sector. What once was a quiet, closed-up street of historic buildings has been buzzing with life since its founding in 2013.

Willamette Week • 4th March 2018

A Decade Later, The First Beer Oakshire Ever Made Remains a Classic

For over a decade, brothers Jeff and Chris Althouse have made Oakshire a fixture of Eugene. Oakshire's flagship brew is the first beer they ever made, a crowd-pleasing amber ale that makes a perfect six-pack for parties. Jeff Althouse takes pride in that amber's versatility. "It's a little bit roasty, it's a little bit biscuity, there's a little bit of citrus flavor from the hops. But it's super approachable and works for everybody," he says. "Different flavors come out with different food pairings."

Eugene Weekly • 8th February 2018

The 20-Second Hug

I sat down with some long-wed locals, Jim and Beth Weldy, to get some relationship advice and see if I’m on the right track in my own relationship.

The Weldys emanate love for each other with every small movement and titter of laughter. Jim Weldy makes a pun, causing Beth to giggle. Beth Weldy emphasizes points in her stories with gentle pats on Jim’s forearm. They lean in towards each other almost unconsciously as they speak, their knees close together under the table as they sip hot cocoa.

Eugene Weekly • 26th October 2017

Cheap Eats

If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for a good and relatively cheap place to eat out for lunch. I’m a millennial — I’ll never afford to buy a house, so I may as well cry about it over some tasty organic avocado toast.

But because I’m usually broke, that toast better be under $10 — including tip.

Eugene Weekly • 12th October 2017

Wild, Wild Movement

Mowgli is the familiar story of The Jungle Book, transformed by ballet. Title cards explain plot points before scenes, allowing me to focus on how the choreography told the story rather than squinting to decipher. The music was vaguely Indian, as were the costumes, designed by Jonna Hayden.

Eugene Weekly • 12th October 2017

The Freshman Survival Guide

You’re done with your parents, done with high school, and now bursting onto the college campus, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, acting aloof but trying to make friends. Maybe you’re nervous and hiding in your dorm while you read this, or maybe you’ve decided to take on a whole new identity since you’ve moved to a new state.
Whatever you’re thinking, let me be your guide to the trappings of life at University of Oregon. As a recently graduated senior, I can help you through the highs and lows of freshman year.

Eugene Weekly • 24th August 2017

Memorable Membrillo

Corey Wisun doesn’t seem like the type to settle into a routine, and Membrillo's menu changes almost weekly to match his intuition and the changing seasons. Since it’s a tapas-style restaurant, you might get the chance to try a couple different dishes, but Wisun suggests the tasting menu for $45 a person.

Eugene Weekly • 24th August 2017

Tasty tacos and tremendous tamales

Mama Mayra’s feels like your favorite aunt’s house. The expansive menu includes items like “Fish Tacos (Really Good!)” and unique specials like champiqueso, a dish with steak, mushrooms and cheese layered on traditional tortillas, and the aventurero, an amalgamation of many different ingredients on top of tortillas.

Eugene Weekly • 10th August 2017

Cricket Munching Game Makers

The image of gamers hanging out with pizza is a pretty standard one, but you usually don’t see crickets as the pizza topping.

At the Cricket Dare game jam Friday-Sunday, July 28-30, game developers built games at Fertilab Thinkubator, a coworking space in downtown Eugene. The theme of the jam was “crickets are good” thanks to a sponsorship by Craft Crickets, a local cricket farm that sells the insects as eco-friendly protein for human consumption.

The Guardian • 24th November 2015

Why did my university allow a poker night with a gun giveaway?

When I found out that a student group was going to give away guns at a poker night on my campus, I thought it was a joke. After the shooting at Roseburg earlier this term, the atmosphere at University of Oregon was an anxious one. Students here have been on high alert, terrified that a shooting had happened so close by.

It was not a joke.

Eugene Weekly • 1st April 2017

Confessions of a Millennial Hoarder (Satire)

I have exactly 1,476 trophies, and I adore every single one of them.

I have participation awards from every sports team I’ve been on since kindergarten, eighth-place trophies for speech and debate tournaments, and my well-loved third-place medal for a watermelon-eating competition from third grade.

These trophies are accolades of achievement, representing who I am and all that I’ve done in life.

Now that I’m an adult at the ripe age of 22, I’m starting to run out of room on my many shelves fo

Eugene Weekly • 10th August 2017

Bisexual Invisibility

So what’s it like to be bisexual? Henry Osborne, 22, says it can be confusing. “It’s weird to be attracted to both, and people don’t believe you a lot of the time,” he says. “People will give you kind of a look if you say you’re bi. Especially people in queer circles — they don’t really believe you.”