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8241
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In June 2006, the North Carolina General Assembly created a new tax incentive for the adaptive use of vacant historic agricultural, manufacturing, and utility buildings. The law provides enhanced tax credits for the historic rehabilitation of buildings that have been substantially vacant for at least two years. The rehabilitation costs must exceed $3 million.
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8283
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Randy Mundt maps floodplains for the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management. He is well versed in hazard mitigation, or stopping disasters before they start. In this CAROLINA PLANNING interview, Mundt discusses the roles of the state and local governments in hazard mitigation, the effects of Hurricane Katrina on North Carolina hazard mitigation, and the role of insurance companies.
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In 1893, Caleb Bradham opened a drugstore in New Bern, where he concocted soft drinks. One was called Brad's Drink, and in 1898 it became Pepsi Cola. Although Bradham made millions, fluctuating sugar prices contributed to his bankruptcy in 1923.
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David Williams was born in Cumberland County on November 13, 1900. As a young man, he worked for a railroad company and supplemented his income by making moonshine. A confrontation with law officers led to a shootout in which an officer was killed. Although there is a dispute as to who shot the officer, Williams was charged and sentenced to thirty years in prison. He worked in the metal shop in prison, repairing guns of the guards and developing his own ideas about firearms. In 1929, after serving eight years, his case was reviewed, and he was pardoned. During World War II, Williams worked for the Winchester Repeating Firearms Company in Connecticut. While in prison he had invented the short-stroke piston and floating chamber principle that would revolutionize the small arms industry. This idea led to the development of the M1 carbine. Over six million were manufactured between 1941 and 1945 and gave him his famous nickname \"Carbine\" Williams.
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8378
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Since the 1980s, Oxford, located in Granville County, has had trouble managing a compliant wastewater treatment facility. In 2000, the city was fined $100,000, the largest water quality fine in North Carolina to date, and required to enter into a consent judgment order to bring the facility back into compliance, which should have occurred by April 2002. Since 2001, the plant has violated its discharge permit more than seventy times. The Pamlico-Tar River Foundation and Clean Water for North Carolina, representing downstream residents, challenged a state issued Special Order of Consent (SOC) Oxford's wastewater treatment plant. This was the first appeal ever of this kind in the state. The two groups argued that the SOC failed to meet North Carolina's own regulations for dealing with chronic polluters.
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8409
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The Lifetime Achievement Award, given by North Carolina's franchised car and truck dealers, is the industry's highest honor. Begun in 1999, the award recognizes those individuals who have displayed a lifetime of commitment to the industry and to their individual communities. The 2006 award winners are P. David Brown, Gate City Lincoln Mercury, Greensboro; Jim Lowry, Industry Consultant, High Point; and Earl Tindol, Earl Tindol Ford, Gastonia.
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John Greene, Sr., of John Greene Chrysler Dodge Jeep in Morganton, was selected to receive the prestigious Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award for 2006 in North Carolina. The dealership is in its third generation of ownership, and Greene's grandchildren work part time while in school. Greene was one of sixty-six dealers selected from over 19,500 nationwide nominations to receive the award.
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Established in 1785, Morattock Church, located two miles from Plymouth, is the second oldest church in Washington County. This church, with a seating capacity of 200, burned in 1863, but this did not interrupt services. Parishioners met in the poorhouse until the current building was completed in 1865. As membership declined, the building was not maintained, and the final services were held in 1934 or 1935. In 1937, the roof caved in. Money was raised to replace it. The church was painted, and a plaque honoring all the preachers who had served there was installed. Since then, interest in the church has waned, and decay has again set in.
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The Garret Boerema family of Grassy Ridge in Hyde County is North Carolina's new Farmers Home Administration Farm Family of the Year. The award is presented to the FHA farm family that demonstrates the most outstanding achievements in the state in farm methods, financial progress, family living, property investment, and resourcefulness in overcoming adversities. Forty-seven-year-old Boerema and his wife were born in Holland and came to the United States in 1949. They have operated a highly profitable dairy farm in Hyde County for the past eleven years.
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The Pamlico Marine Laboratory, located near Aurora, studies the waters of Pamlico River and other waters of coastal North Carolina. The laboratory is the coastal research station of the Department of Zoology of North Carolina State University. Work at the laboratory began in 1965, under the direction of Dr. Donald B. Horton. The ecological studies attempt to understand and describe the complex relationships between organisms in the river, including the commercially important fish, shrimp, and crabs, and their aquatic environment.
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Housing North Carolina Awards recognize affordable housing developments that can serve as models for other communities. Criteria include affordability, design, contribution to the community, and other features, such as services for residents. The following five projects were honored in 2006: Battery Park Senior Apartments (Asheville); Club Nova Apartments (Carrboro); Countryside Estates (Greenville); Lennox Chase (Greenville); and St. James Annex (Wilmington).
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Asheville was one of nine cities honored with the prestigious 2006 Awards for Municipal Excellence at the National League of Cities' Congress of Cities in Reno, Nevada, on December 8, 2006. The award recognizes cities that improve the quality of life in their communities. Asheville was the Gold winner in the 50,501-150,000 population category for its “Cultural Renaissance Arts Program.†This innovative summer and after-school arts and humanities program focuses on young people ages 8-15 and provides a platform to address social issues through theatrical productions, visual arts exhibits and dance recitals.
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In 1999, the flood that followed Hurricane Floyd destroyed all four buildings of Rocky Mount's Children's Museum and the city's Art Centre. In choosing a new location in the downtown area, the city selected the old Imperial Tobacco Factory and the former Braswell Memorial Library. The Imperial Centre, which opened in January 2006, is home to the Children's Museum, the Arts Center, and a planetarium that will open in March 2006.
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The Harry W. Suddreth family of Gaston County is North Carolina's new Farmers Home Administration Farm Family of the Year. The award is presented to the FHA farm family that demonstrates the most outstanding achievements in the state in farm methods, financial progress, family living, property investment, and resourcefulness in overcoming adversities. The Suddreths bought their 107-acre farm in 1962, and in 1964, began concentrating on greenhouse plant culture. In 1975, their nursery enterprise grossed $186,000.
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The John Frankie Singleton family of Pitt County is North Carolina's Farmers Home Administration Farm Family of the Year for 1976. The award is presented to the FHA farm family that demonstrates the most outstanding achievements in the state in farm methods, financial progress, family living, property investment, and resourcefulness in overcoming adversities. The family operates a swine operation in Pitt County. In 1966, the Singletons owned five hogs. By 1976, the operation had grown to about 125 sows averaging about 9.6 pigs per little. Quality is synonymous with the Singleton name, so much so that bids on the hogs are sometimes made without the buyers actually seeing the hogs they are bidding on.
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