How to Eat Your Way Through Asheville in One Day

How to Eat Your Way Through Asheville in One Day

CombineCombine the fertile terrain of Western North Carolina with the creative hub Asheville, and you get an eclectic mix of cool dives, quirky cafes, and award-winning restaurants. Even though most of the dining and drinking destinations are within a few miles (or blocks) of each other, there is still […] Click here to view original […]

What if public transit was like Uber? A NC city ended its bus service to find out

What if public transit was like Uber? A NC city ended its bus service to find out

RIDE public transportation in Wilson, NC. Photo: City of Wilson WILSON, NC (AP) — When a small city abruptly parked all its buses to launch a publicly subsidized van service offering $1.50 trips anywhere in town, only one of its bus drivers — a big-city transplant — went along […] Click here to view original […]

Duke to Expand Aid for NC and SC Students

Duke to Expand Aid for NC and SC Students

Duke to provide full tuition for eligible students with family incomes below $150,000 Beginning in the fall 2023 semester, Duke University will provide full tuition grants for undergraduate students admitted to Duke from North Carolina and South Carolina whose family incomes are $150,000 or less. For Duke students who […] Click here to view original […]

Duke University to cover cost of tuition for students from NC, SC beginning Fall 2023

Duke University to cover cost of tuition for students from NC, SC beginning Fall 2023

Aerial over Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (Getty Images) DURHAM, N.C. (WCIV) — This fall, select students from the Carolinas attending Duke University will be getting a big helping hand in the form of fully paid tuition. Duke University announced Tuesday that undergraduate students from North Carolina and […] Click here to view original […]

Boosting North Carolina’s Small Businesses

Boosting North Carolina’s Small Businesses

Centennial Campus Sciencix is headquartered in North Carolina’s Research Triangle region and operates a manufacturing plant in Minnesota. Small businesses are a vital part of American innovation and competitiveness, employing nearly half of the nation’s private sector workforce and generating 44% of all economic activity, according to the U.S. […] Click here to view original […]

Perspective | North Carolina students making progress toward FAFSA completion

Perspective | North Carolina students making progress toward FAFSA completion

According to the National College Attainment Network (NCAN)’s report , the North Carolina high school class of 2022 left $113,094,383 in Pell Grants on the table as a result of not completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Without completing the FAFSA, students have no opportunity to […] Click here to view original […]

Pilkington North America Expands Scotland County, North Carolina, Operations

Pilkington North America Expands Scotland County, North Carolina, Operations

Pilkington North America, Inc., a major glass manufacturing company, will expand its float glass facility in Laurinburg, North Carolina . The $86.8 million project is expected to create 20 jobs in Scotland County, The investment includes the rebuilding of one of its two float glass lines, expansion of existing […] Click here to view original […]

Why Hobbies Are So Important in Retirement

Why Hobbies Are So Important in Retirement

Lynice Willis, an avid quilter, has embraced one of the keys to a happy retirement: having a creative hobby. When Lynice Willis ended her 30-year career in college administration in 2020, she gave herself a precious gift: time. “When I hear the word retirement, I think of the freedom […] Click here to view original […]

Breaking down the winners, losers of the COVID booster push in NC

Breaking down the winners, losers of the COVID booster push in NC

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The North Carolina counties doing the best job at giving COVID-19 booster shots tend to be the ones that got the most residents vaccinated in the first place The state Department of Health and Human Services recently began breaking down their booster data by age […] Click here to view original […]

Supporting Local Heroes COVID19

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We have a new phrase embedded into our minds today and that’s SOCIAL DISTANCING.  Here it is in a country where being social, sharing, and promoting ourselves and the smallest details in our lives created a billion-dollar industry.  Now we are being forced into the virtual world creating more of disconnect from each other due […]

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