The view looking down on development along the French Broad River in the River Arts District.(Photo: William Woody / wwoody@citizen-times.com) ASHEVILLE – City officials and community leaders are moving forward on several fronts in the revamping of the River Arts…
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River Arts District plans include new food-truck park, zoning, bridge – Asheville Citizen
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Mount Airy One of State’s Best Cities to Start a Business
MOUNT AIRY — A personal finance website gives high marks to Mount Airy for its business climate. NerdWallet.com ranks the Surry County city number three among communities it says are the best places in North Carolina to start a business.…
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Number Show Tourism on the Rise
RALEIGH – Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina tourism generated record visitor spending in 2014 with a total of $21.3 billion, a 5.4 percent increase over 2013. Additionally, tourism industry supported employment topped 200,000 jobs for the first…
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AVL Busking Scene Gets National Play
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Civil War re-enactor continues ‘walk home’ from New Bern to Duke Homestead
His feet blistered and tired, Philip Brown plopped down for a rest. On the side of Lee Road about five miles outside of Clayton, he took a sip of water and unstrapped a rubber gum blanket from across his chest.…
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Ballin’ at the Beach brings boost to businesses – WBTW
Raw video from a cell phone captures the scene after a dramatic wreck in Chatham County.
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Black police officers underrepresented on Florida streets
The majority of Florida police departments have significantly lower percentages of blacks in their law enforcement ranks than they have blacks in the populations they protect and serve. In some cities, the percentages of black citizens are two to three…
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Lohmann: Twenty-seven years after crash, a memorial
BOB BROWN/times-dispatch 20150514_MET_BILL_BB01 Howard Wells holds a favorite book of his late son, Bage, shown in the Louis Briel painting in the background, as he talks with visitors to his home in Richmond, VA Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Bage, then…
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Old Crow Medicine Show talks about busking in Asheville – Asheville Citizen
The Grammy-winning old-time and Americana band Old Crow Medicine Show got its start in Western North Carolina. The group returns to play Pisgah Brewing’s outdoor amphitheater May 25.(Photo: Special to Citizen-Times) Long before the Grammys and the Grand Ole Opry…
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11 Cool things we found at Milan’s Zona Tortona during design week
Share on Tumblr Email Formaliz 3D – Rumbles Milan-based 3D company FORMALZ3D used prototyping technologies to create Rumbles, a collection of lamps. Thanks to the innovative process of the 3D printing technology, there is no waste and no stock in…
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