Monitoring 18 loggerhead sea turtle nests in the heart of the busy summer beach season is quite a chore for Linda Mataya and other members of the North Myrtle Beach Sea Turtle Patrol. Mataya and Rob Kayton are co-leaders of…
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South Africa, Namibia criticize airline ban on trophies
Posted: Friday, August 7, 2015 6:56 am | Updated: 7:15 am, Fri Aug 7, 2015. South Africa, Namibia criticize airline ban on trophies Associated Press | JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Some African countries that allow hunting have criticized a decision by…
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Votes for pie trail show many like sweet Indiana life
Betty Teer cuts a pie at Mrs. Wick’s Pies restaurant in Winchester.(Photo: The (Muncie) Star Press file) How sweet is it to be a Hoosier? At least as sweet as 1 million pies, because that’s how many pies one local…
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Climb on: Smoky Mountain Adventure Center gets ready to rock – Asheville Citizen
Stuart Cowles, owner of the Smoky Mountain Adventure Center, 173 Amboy Road in the River Arts District, cleans a custom countertop on the second floor of the center.(Photo: William Woody / wwoody@citizen-times.com) ASHEVILLE – Stuart Cowles puts a lot of…
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Power line could hurt production, drop land values, farmers say
Power line could hurt production, drop land values, farmers say By Bill Moss, Published: August 7, 2015 In an effort to avoid the most densely populated parts of Henderson County, Duke Energy has proposed transmission line routes that cross mostly…
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Why packing Keurig for dorm is a bad idea
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Fishermen get up close and personal with a whale shark – The Virginian
By Lee Tolliver The Virginian-Pilot© August 9, 2015 With all the talk this summer about sharks – sightings and attacks – Ken Neill wasn’t going to be surprised by seeing a shark while fishing for marlin along the Norfolk Canyon.…
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What’s that smell? Public urination, politics and paying for restrooms – Asheville Citizen
The stairwells inside the Battery Park Avenue parking garage Friday.(Photo: William Woody / wwoody@citizen-times.com) ASHEVILLE – Where downtown restaurant manager Carly Reese parks her car has a lot to do with what happened the night before in the Civic Center…
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Yet another sales tax plan introduced
Email–> Print–> QR Favorite Font Size: A North Carolina Senate proposal to change the way sales tax revenues are distributed has once again been changed. Senate Bill 369 was changed to legislation that would call for a distribution of sales…
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N.C. craft beer industry now tops in the South
Want to make people in North Carolina’s craft-beer world laugh? Tell them this: In 2005, when the North Carolina legislature was considering a bill that would raise the limit on alcohol in beer, one of the sponsors said a microbrewing…
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