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15 great ideas for your 2015 vacation
Sure travel bets may be hard to come by, but here are some solid ideas to start planning your 2015 vacation – five for the Carolinas, five for North America and five for overseas. Carolinas Fort Fisher, in January: The…
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Blue Ridge Parkway ranger trades outdoors for classroom
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Here are a few of the things Peter Givens will not see at his new workplace: A black bear staring at him across Rock Castle Creek. A dead deer with its hindquarters sticking out of the…
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Asheville rabbi to lead tour of European Jewish sites – Asheville Citizen
Rabbi Batsheva Meiri reads from the Torah at Congregation Beth Ha Tephila in Asheville. She will lead a tour of Eastern European sites from April 18-30.(Photo: Citizen-Times file photo) Email information about faith-based events and what’s going on at your…
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Asheville serves as home base for actors
ASHEVILLE, N.C. For Kevin Patrick Murphy, Asheville actors seeking stardom on big — or small — screens need more than personal drive. They also have to be, well, “willing to drive,” said Murphy, an actor with 20 years of experience…
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Asheville serves as home base for actors
Local News Helping hands: Midlands schools’ holiday charity drives help thousands in need
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Tourism, hotel booms led past year’s Asheville economy – Asheville Citizen
David Gantt, Buncombe County commissioner, speaks at the grand opening of GE Aviation’s new plant in South Asheville on Oct. 15.(Photo: Katie Bailey/bkbailey@citizen-times.com) Two major manufacturing companies promised Western North Carolinians in 2014 that they’d hire hundreds more of them…
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Pot tourism grows in Colo. even as officials refuse to endorse it
Look all you want, and you’ll find nary a marijuana tourism brochure at kiosks operated by Colorado’s official travel bureaus. Yet that institutional prohibition hasn’t stopped thousands of cannabis tourists from visiting Colorado to experience the phenomenon of legal marijuana.…
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Asheville, Western NC bustled with literati in 2014 – Asheville Citizen
Hendersonville author Robert Morgan won the Western North Carolina Historical Association’s 59th annual Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award with “The Road from Gap Creek.”(Photo: Jason Koski / University Photogr) It’s been a great year for books in Western North Carolina.…
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ENC economic development regions to merge
A pending merger of two Eastern North Carolina economic development alliances is scheduled to become effective Jan. 1, 2015, and move the combined headquarters to Greenville. The merger of the NCEast Alliance, with offices in Kinston, and North Carolina’s Northeast…
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