Purchase Photos Renfro Lofts Condominiums sits at the corner of Virginia and Willow Streets in Mount Airy. The rehabilitation project turned a former tobacco warehouse into 37 condominiums. Close Email–> Print–> QR Favorite RALEIGH — A reinstatement of the historic…
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Curry returns to Charlotte, takes NBA trophy to Davidson
Stephen Curry isn’t one to forget his roots. The NBA’s Most Valuable Player returned to his alma mater Davidson College on Thursday to show off the Larry O’Brien NBA championship trophy with the small school’s close-knit community. Curry worked out…
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Asheville & Western NC outdoors events calendar – Asheville Citizen
The Radical Reels Film Tour, which complements the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, focus on dynamic, high-adrenaline outdoors films, is coming to Asheville Sept. 14.(Photo: Courtesy of RRFT) Submit items at least one week in advance of publication for…
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Xi’s visit opportune time to snag investments
When Chinese President Xi Jinping and a delegation of government and business leaders visit Washington this week, our star turn won’t be limited to Boeing and Microsoft. This is a rare opportunity to showcase the state as a good place…
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Illinois looks for 3-0 start in visit to North Carolina – Sarasota Herald
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Few teams could understand the uncertainty going through the Illinois locker room once the school fired coach Tim Beckman a week before the season. North Carolina, who host the Illini on Saturday, has two key…
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Here’s to the next 100 years: Asheville installs time capsule in Vance Monument
As the sun was sinking down Patton Avenue on Friday, Sept. 18, a crowd of Ashevilleans gathered in the shade of the Vance Monument, ready to seal a 100-year time capsule into the base of the downtown structure. Like its 118-year-old…
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New sales tax on services would benefit only rural counties
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…
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Samaritan’s Purse sends relief teams to Europe – Asheville Citizen
A handout picture taken on September 13, 2015 and released on September 15, 2015 by Save The Children shows a group of Syrian women with their children sitting in a park of the Moroccan town of Nador where around 1000…
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Autumn’s Flair Drives Tourism
Vera Ann Myers has been busy booking birthday parties, company picnics and a pair of weddings. Her staff at Myers Pumpkin Patch are setting up craft stations and picking produce, a required task “to meet the demands for our busiest…
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Asheville B&Bs find quiet niche in booming tourism scene – Asheville Citizen
Buy Photo Nancy Merrill sits with her Australian Silky Terriers, Maggie and Lila, in the parlor area of Applewood Manor Inn bed-and-breakfast which she owns with her husband, Larry. The house has six guest rooms including a luxury cottage, seven…
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