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When citizens want to show off their community or raise funds for a project, they hold a town festival. Over 1,000 festivals are held each year, including Hollerin' (Spivey's Corner), Yam and Ham (Smithfield), and Collard (Ayden).
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Louisburg, Monroe, Gastonia, and Greensboro received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 1997 National Wastewater Management Excellence Award for outstanding wastewater treatment programs.
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A Brownfield Assessment Demonstration Pilot Grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency will assist four North Carolina cities in cleaning up brownfields. Brownfields are underused or abandoned industrial or commercial sites having contaminants that affect potential profitability. Laurinburg, Concord, Fayetteville, and Winston-Salem are recipients of the grants.
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4.Franklin's Tartan Museum Recognized by Hajian, Eleanore J. Southern City Vol. 47 Issue 3, Mar 1997
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The Scottish Tartan's Museum in Franklin displays over 500 plaids of the Scottish clans. It is the only museum in the country that is recognized by the Crown Office of the United Kingdom.
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Since 1937, Durham has only had three city attorneys: Claude V. Jones, 1937-1972; William I. Thornton, 1972-1997; and Henry Blinder, 1997-.
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in October, 1999, an Environmental Protection Agency regulation requiring municipalities to report the quality of the drinking water to their citizens goes into effect. Items to be reported include where the water comes from, the contaminants it contains, and the health effects of any contaminants.
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Special federal grants, called hazard migration, assist local governments in removing, relocating, or elevating homes of citizens who live in flood prone areas. Boone is one of the first towns to utilize the grant program.
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Greensboro is nationally recognized for its commitment to providing affordable housing for families. By dedicating one cent of the city's property tax to the program, Greensboro has helped low-and middle-income families be first- time home buyers or rehabilitate existing homes. The program also helps nonprofit agencies build homes, renovate apartments, and improve neighborhoods. Hajian provides a list of affordable and neighborhood development programs in Greensboro.
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Concerned that the things that came with growth-big shopping centers, increased traffic, chain restaurants-would affect the desirable elements in their cities, Hickory and Winston-Salem formed committees of citizens to recommend how their features can be preserved.
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Cities across the nation have decided to do something about racism and the harm it inflicts. Since 1999, about 250 cities and towns have joined the National League of Cities' Campaign to Promote Racial Justice. Sixteen North Carolina towns have joined. Greensboro, Rocky Mount, and Hillsborough are profiled.
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Numerous national news reports about assaults on children by sports coaches prompted the Knightdale Sports and Recreation Department to conduct background checks on potential volunteer coaches as part of the overall application process. Knightdale is one of the first parks and recreation departments in the state to do this.
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By January 1, 1998, all unlined landfills were mandated closed. This left local governments, including the cities of Elkin and Raleigh, seeking new places for solid waste disposal. Alternatives included shipping trash to regional landfills.
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The Upper Cape Fear and Black Creek aquifers drop at the rate of eight feet per year. Fifteen counties, including Pitt, draw water from them. Representatives from state and local governments, agriculture, industry, business, and the North Carolina League of Municipalities met in March 2000 to develop regulations to limit water withdrawals by these counties. This will be the first program of this kind in the state.
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Every election year, many elected local officials, including mayors and council members who have served their communities long and well, retire from office. The mayors of Whiteville, Horace Whitley; Greensboro, Carolyn Allen; Mooresville, Joe Knox; and Morehead City, William C. Horton, Jr., are profiled.
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Because of toxic algae, fish kills, and pollution in the Neuse River, the North Carolina General Assembly in 1995, mandated that cities and towns along the river reduce nitrogen content of their wastewater 30 percent by 2003. Sixteen towns formed the Lower Neuse River Basin Association to meet the challenge. Hajian describes how the association met the goal earlier, by January 2001.
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