Following a report from Duke Energy filed late today that a crack has formed in an earthen dam that's part of a coal ash impoundment at the Cape Fear Steam Electric Station in Chatham County, Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 2:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that $500,000 from the Office of State Budget and Management's Repair and Renovation Contingency Reserve has been allocated to the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA, the state's World War II memorial, to repair its hull.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 3:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Before Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition landed on the Outer Banks in 1585, French and Spanish explorers traveled across modern-day North Carolina and led the European powers in claiming American land.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The last commander of Fort Fisher before its surrender to occupying Union forces, James Reilly's postwar years reveals the bond that many former Confederate and Union soldiers exhibited during the 1880s and 1890s.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Commercial restrictions through tariffs have been an integral part of American history. The federal government has used forms of commercial restriction as a source of revenue and to protect American industry and labor.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Cape Fear Arsenal Inc. will locate a new manufacturing facility in Robeson County.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 6:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Although scholars disagree regarding the exact path of Hernando De Soto's expedition in the Southeast, all agree that the Spaniard and his expedition passed through present-day Piedmont and western North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 @ 9:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For much of the sixteenth century, France and Spain competed for control of what would become the southeastern United States.
Published: Monday, December 17th, 2012 @ 3:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Until its capture by the Union army in 1865, Fort Fisher was the largest earthwork fortification in the world.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 @ 4:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1735, Maurice Moore was born in what became known as Brunswick County. His father had earned great wealth in South Carolina as a planter along the Lower Cape Fear region and later moved to the modern-day Brunswick County area.
Published: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In spite of recent statements by gubernatorial candidates Walter Dalton and Pat McCrory opposing the North Carolina International Terminal, Toby Bronstein, a spokeswoman for Save the Cape, fears the proposed megaport may not be dead.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2012 @ 3:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Johnny Frank Woolard, age 85, passed away on Saturday, July 9, 2011, to be with his Lord and Savior. He was born Oct. 12, 1925, in Washington, N.C., and was the son of the late J. F. and Daisy Woolard of Old Ford, N.C.
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 @ 12:11 pm
By: Announcements
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On a recent trip to Myrtle Beach, we took a side trip through Brunswick County along its northern coast to Oak Island.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 @ 3:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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