WARSAW — Crowds sporting America’s red, white and blue lined up the streets of downtown Warsaw, N.C., to celebrate the 103rd Veterans Day Parade on Saturday, Nov. 4. The annual celebration is the oldest running Veterans Day observance in the country, with the first one taking place in 1921 after World War I. It is […]
The North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) announced on Oct. 31 that Beulaville is one of five local and tribal governments to receive funding from the Affordable Housing Development Fund (AHDF). These funds are earmarked specifically to increase the availability of safe and affordable housing in areas that experienced major damage from Hurricanes […]
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Local Government Commission (LGC) approved a property purchase through $70 million in limited obligation bonds for the city of Wilmington at its June 6 meeting. The purchase involves the PPD building, which is one of the tallest structures in the downtown Wilmington area and is owned by Fisher Thermo Scientific. […]
RALEIGH — At a May 19 event ahead of the annual Got To Be NC Festival in Raleigh, the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced that the economic impact of agriculture and agribusiness in the state has risen from $92.9 billion last year to over $103.2 billion this year. Agriculture is North Carolina’s […]