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Buncombe County: Tips to prevent disease while swimming this summer
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Comments: 0 Views: 7Buncombe County Juvenile Detention Center may close
Comments: 0 Views: 7Times-News: Above average rainfalls create challenges for farmers
Comments: 0 Views: 7STF Precision to invest $4.5 million into Arden facility, hire 25 new workers
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Here's the press release from Buncombe County: Safety in the Pool This Summer This summer, swimming pools will be filled with hundreds of people having ...
Here's the press release from the North Carolina News Service: RALEIGH, N.C. - On Saturday, thousands of North Carolinians will start their Memorial Day weekend ...
Here's the press release from the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation: GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN, N.C. – Over 60 runners lined up at the base of Grandfather Mountain ...
Press Release From Mission Foundation: ASHEVILLE. N.C. (May 22, 2013) – Mission Foundation today announced that the inaugural Friends of Mission Charity Classic professional golf ...
Press release from Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity: On Wednesday, May 29th at 4:30PM, Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity will hold the fourth wall-raising in ...
From Western Carolina: During his life, the late William Robert “Billy” Schulz showed his mother, Jane B. Schulz, again and again that he and others ...
The hostage situation that occurred in Spruce Pine yesterday ended with police shooting the suspect. WLOS reports: "They found the man back there holding a ...
From Black Mountain News: A state Senate budget proposal would shut a facility that houses juvenile defendants from Western North Carolina who are awaiting trial. ...
From the Times-News By Nathaniel Axtell Farmers depend on ample rain for their livelihoods, but county sod, corn and apple farmers say Mother Nature has ...
Here's the press release from the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville - Buncombe County: Asheville, N.C., May 23, 2013 – In conjunction with the Economic ...
Press release from SIMFA: SIFMA and the SIFMA Foundation today congratulated a team of students from Clyde A. Erwin High School, in Asheville, N.C., on ...
The Tuesday evening Hoop Jam, presented by Mission Health with Asheville Hoops, returns to Pritchard Park on May 28 from 5:30-7:30pm. Hoop Jam continues every ...
Press release From the Community Foundation of Henderson County: Hendersonville, N.C., May 22, 2013: Nominations are being accepted for the Richard C. and Vina L. ...
From WLOS: Law enforcement, emergency workers and school employees searched the building and grounds of McDowell High and students’ bags and backpacks Thursday morning after finding a suspicious note.
From Smoky Mountain News: Financial challenges faced by rural hospitals show no sign of a turnaround, prompting MedWest hospital leaders to consider what was once ...
Here's the press release from the campaign of incumbent Asheville city council candidate Cecil Bothwell: Asheville, NC— Asheville City Counci lmember Cecil Bothwell will join ...
From Carolina Public Press: The Academic Program Prioritization Task Force, composed of faculty, students and academic administrators, examined all undergraduate and graduate programs as part ...
A series of questionable circumstances may leave too much to be explained by Randy Voller, chair of the N.C. Democratic Party. The questions involve personal ...
From WRAL: Longtime House lawmaker Rep. Robert Brawley, R-Iredell, handed back his Finance gavel Wednesday afternoon with a blistering public letter against fellow Republican House ...
Press release from the NC DENR State water quality officials this week amended a March lawsuit involving Duke Energy Progress’ (formerly Progress Energy Carolinas) coal-fired ...
From the News & Observer Story by Associated Press reporter Michael Biesecker RALEIGH, N.C. — An audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and ...
Press release from North Carolina News Service CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The budget proposed by the state Senate prompted an emergency meeting of the North Carolina ...
Here's the press release from Just Economics: 4th ANNUAL JUST BREW IT: ASHEVILLE’S HOME BREW FESTIVAL WHO: Western North Carolina’s best home brewers team up ...
Here's the press release from Disco Donnie Presents: Disco Donnie Presents and The Bob Moog Foundation announce strategic partnership EDM promoter donates $10,000 to Foundation, ...
Here's the press release from the office of Rep. Mark Meadows: Washington, D.C. – Representative Mark Meadows (NC-11) released the following statement after introducing the ...
