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If you go What: Folly Beach Sea and Sand Festival When: Various events beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday. Dangermuffin will play the street festival at 3 p.m. Saturday. Where: Center Street, Folly Beach Price: Free More…

“A lot of tourism and a lot of community around Asheville is based around drinking beer. How do we build a community around another beverage that has innate healing qualities?” wonders Charles Wu, co-owner of Wu Gong Fu Tea. Wu’s…

Allegiant Air will add its ninth route from Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, part of a broader attempt to increase profits with service to underserved cities. The new nonstop to Indianapolis will be one of five new routes from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood…

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Governor Mike Pence calls Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act a way to “enhance protection” for Hoosiers. Helen J. Carroll, former coach of the national championship-winning University of North Carolina-Asheville and current sports project director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, calls…

Buy Photo Downtown Asheville(Photo: Citizen-Times)Buy Photo ASHEVILLE – Privatizing North Carolina’s economic-development functions has enhanced the state’s ability to attract new companies and support existing ones, Chris Chung, North Carolina Economic Development Partnership’s new CEO, said Monday. Dozens of local…

Two public hearings will be held at the April 7 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting, one on a Ferry Road property acquisition and the other a rezoning request for Monticello Road. The board will then hear a resolution on recording closed sessions,…

Governor Mike Pence calls Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act a way to “enhance protection” for Hoosiers. Helen J. Carroll, former coach of the national championship-winning University of North Carolina-Asheville and current sports project director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, calls…

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