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Joan White Youmans Crepps, 91, of Washington, North Carolina passed peacefully on February 10, 2024.
Published: Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 @ 7:00 am
By: Announcements
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An event billed as “a drag queen story hour” for children as young as two at the North Carolina Museum of Art and funded in part by taxpayer dollars, has reportedly been canceled amid community protest.
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2022 @ 2:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Bill allows lawsuits, penalties retroactive to 2017.
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and its state partners today released the updated breastfeeding support NC Making It Work toolkit.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 3:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced a slew of new restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2020 @ 10:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Media law experts believe the North Carolina Military Affairs Commission violated the spirit — if not the letter — of state laws requiring the conduct of public meetings in a transparent manner
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2017 @ 9:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The chairman of the N.C. Military Affairs Commission refused to allow a presentation at an open committee meeting Tuesday because a Carolina Journal reporter was in attendance
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2017 @ 7:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Patrick McHenry, North Carolina’s Representative from the 10th District in the U.S. House, credits a bill he introduced with causing the Environmental Protection Agency to back off plans to penalize racecar owners when they modify the emissions systems on their former street vehicles.
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 5:20 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A proposed EPA rule, as part of regulation that would purport to control greenhouse gas emissions and impose fuel efficiency standards, could harm North Carolina's vibrant performance auto and racing industries, according to a group that represents such businesses nationwide
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 11:49 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Born in the small town of Godwin (Cumberland County) in 1900, David Marshall "Carbine" Williams was the creator of the M-1 Carbine, the U.S. Army's favorite semi-automatic rifle during World War II.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Josiah Collins III was born in Edenton, North Carolina in March 1808.
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 1:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Born in Wilmington on December 29, 1915, Robert Chester Ruark was known as the "poor man's Hemingway" and he became one of North Carolina's most prominent twentieth-century writers.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) has received a grant from the John William Pope Foundation for $25,000 in support of the Museum's School Bus Scholarship Fund.
Published: Thursday, March 20th, 2014 @ 1:49 pm
By: John William Pope Foundation
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Lake Phelps in Tyrrell County, first discovered about 1755, is located in the middle of the swampland known as "the Great Eastern Dismal," or the "Great Alligator Dismal."
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 11:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the formation of the United States, male politicians, writers, and philosophers were at the forefront in establishing the government for the new country after the Revolutionary War.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Josiah Collins, Sr. was born near Taunton, Somersetshire, England in August 1735 as the son of David and Joan Collins.
Published: Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 @ 11:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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William Sydney Porter, or more famously known by his pen name O. Henry, was a popular short story writer during the early twentieth century.
Published: Saturday, August 10th, 2013 @ 10:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first natives in the region were the Weapemeoc, and their central trading town, also called Weapemeoc, was located near the present site of Edenton.
Published: Monday, August 5th, 2013 @ 3:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Watauga County was established by legislative act in 1849 from parts of Caldwell, Ashe, Wilkes, and Yancey County.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2013 @ 1:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A county located on the border between the coastal and piedmont sections of the state, Nash County has long been heralded as a leading agricultural county in the state of North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Egbert Roscoe Murrow was born in Polecat Creek, North Carolina, in Guilford County on April 25, 1908. The youngest of three sons, Egbert spent his first six years in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 @ 2:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the early 1700s, the Pirate Blackbeard terrorized the seas off the coast of North Carolina and became a notorious villain. His vessel, The Queen Anne's Revenge, was as equally infamous.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2013 @ 11:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pitt County was established in 1760 after a legislative act to annex Beaufort County. Named after William Pitt, a British statesman who supported the colonist's cause for freedom, the county was formed because of the need for a regional courthouse and prison.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 1:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although one of the smallest counties in North Carolina, New Hanover County, located in the southeastern section of the state, serves as an important tourist attraction, trading center, and cultural trademark.
Published: Saturday, December 29th, 2012 @ 3:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Susan J. Dimock was born in Washington, North Carolina (Beaufort County) in 1847 to Henry and Mary Dimock. Mary was the daughter of the Washington sheriff Henry Dimock, a northerner who migrated from Maine and editor of the North State Whig.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2012 @ 11:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sam J .Ervin, Jr., born in Morganton, Burke County, on September 27, 1896, was educated in public school.
Published: Thursday, November 29th, 2012 @ 9:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Josephus Daniels was a prominent journalist and newspaper editor from North Carolina. He purchased the Raleigh News and Observer in 1894 and became a leading "New South" political commentator.
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 @ 1:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A route that extends 469 miles through the Virginia and North Carolina mountains, the Blue Ridge Parkway has remained what historian William Powell describes as a travel experience "never to be forgotten."
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 8:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Goose Creek State Park calendar of events for the month of November, 2011.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 @ 1:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Goose Creek State Park calendar of events for the month of October, 2011.
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 @ 4:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Goose Creek State Park calendar of events for the month of October, 2011.
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 @ 6:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Join the Beaufort County Community College Foundation Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13, for a trip to the Triangle to see an exhibit of works by Rembrandt at the North Carolina Museum of Art and a performance by the famous Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes at the Durham Performing Arts Center
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2011 @ 6:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Goose Creek State Park calendar of events for the month of September, 2011.
Published: Friday, August 19th, 2011 @ 7:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Goose Creek State Park calendar of events for the month of August, 2011.
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2011 @ 12:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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