Auto repairs could soon become more costly under a budget provision that would add sales taxes on repair, maintenance and installation services. The new revenue from the tax would go to poorer areas of the state. The sales tax plan…
Author: See Article Source
SACRED group to continue focus on Swansboro development
Posted Sep. 16, 2015 at 7:00 AM
Tagged with: North Carolina
One of a kind: Venture Local Fair celebrates Asheville’s unique character
There’s a crossroads between Buxton and Banks avenues, even though they don’t intersect. These blocklong, parallel, South Slope streets are lined with places to buy things, eat, drink and make merry: a chocolate factory, a doughnut shop, three breweries, two…
Tagged with: Asheville
Laurinburg certified as retirement community
Email–> Print–> QR Favorite LAURINBURG — Scotland’s county seat is the newest of North Carolina’s state-certified retirement communities, officials announced this week. Laurinburg joins the 12 other North Carolina communities that are currently part of the N.C. Certified Retirement Community…
Tagged with: Raleigh
NC residents cautiously optimistic about economy
USA TODAY/Wells Fargo Real Economy online survey, June 2015. Survey of 3,533 U.S. adults age 18 and over, including an oversampling of at least 500 adults residing in North Carolina, South Carolina, Iowa, Minnesota, and Oregon.(Photo: USA TODAY/Wells Fargo Real…
Tagged with: Charlotte
BIG SKY NOTEBOOK: Bobcats’ first test comes against battered EWU
BILLINGS — By the time Montana State steps atop “The Inferno” at Roos Field in Cheney, Washington, on Saturday, it will have spent 15 days between games. But that’s not the half of it. The 11th-ranked Bobcats (1-0) will be…
Tagged with: Boone NC
Prison Call Center promoting local tourism
RALEIGH, N.C. –-The National Folk Festival is a big deal for the Piedmont Triad. Not only are thousands of people traveling to Greensboro to attend the event, but those people will also stay in the area and visit local stores…
Tagged with: North Carolina
Fish wars swirl around NC’s diminishing southern flounder
Not the prettiest nor the most elusive of fish, the flat, oval-shaped southern flounder is nonetheless a tasty staple along the North Carolina coast, whether it’s caught by fishing rod or purchased in a seafood market or restaurant. These days…
Tagged with: Charlotte
Jury picks begin in Pennsylvania priest’s sex tourism case
Posted: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 11:20 pm | Updated: 12:01 am, Wed Sep 9, 2015. Jury picks begin in Pennsylvania priest’s sex tourism case Associated Press | PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jury selection is expected to go another day in the…
Tagged with: Boone NC
Sweet Treat for Tourism
Sweet Treat for Tourism From left at last week’s Southeast Tourism Society’s Shining Example Awards are Florence-Lauderdale Tourism employees, Suzie Shoemaker, Alison Stanfield, Debbie Wilson (former director), Georgia Turner, and Chuck Bonelli, Southeast Tourism’s VP of Marketing. Not pictured are…
Tagged with: North Carolina
Top