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31398
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has decided that North Carolina rural electric cooperatives should help their power suppliers finance new power plants that are still under construction. The ruling, which would bring higher power bills for the consumer-members, allows an investor-owned utility to charge its wholesale customers up to half the cost of financing power plant construction work while the work is still being done.
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31399
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Established in 1709, Beaufort is the third-oldest town in North Carolina and many of the original buildings still stand today. Beaufort’s history is celebrated each year during the Old Homes Tour in June. The celebration features special home tours, wooden boat races, and a re-enactment of the infamous pirate invasion of 1747.
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31402
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A new report on poverty from the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Development found that nearly one in every five North Carolinians lives at or below the poverty level. The poverty rate is becoming worse due to a combination of factors, including the rise of divorce and separation, compounded by an economic recession and huge federal budget cutbacks.
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31403
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The ironclad warship U.S.S. Monitor sank off the North Carolina coast in 1862 while being towed to Beaufort for an attack on Wilmington. In 1973, researchers located the Monitor shipwreck southeast of Cape Hatteras. Follow-up expeditions resulted in the designation of the Monitor shipwreck as the nation’s first national marine sanctuary.
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31404
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Many North Carolinians are concerned that proposals for granting offshore oil-drilling leases could lead to oil spills. During World War Two, oil spills along North Carolina’s shoreline were common since oil tankers were main targets by the German Navy U-boats. In the process, many tankers sank, leaving grave markers along the coast.
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The Hampton Mariners Museum in historic Beaufort offers varied exhibits and programs celebrating past and present coastal life. A new Watercraft Center will be built in honor of Harvey W. Smith, an operator of menhaden processing plants and an avid collector of maritime objects. The facility will also provide space for the museum’s boat shop, workshop and maritime research program.
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31406
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A new history of North Carolina traces the state’s social, economic, cultural and geographical development through its people and historic places. The Way We Lived in North Carolina is a five-volume illustrated series and the product of a six-year project with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. The volumes offer glimpses of the earliest residents of now-famous historic places and notable North Carolinians.
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31407
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In the early1940s, Roanoke Rapids had three movie houses, including The Crum. Richard Lore describes The Crum, films featured at the theater, and popular culture during this time period.
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31416
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North Carolina members of Congress have been working to save the government program that gives a support price to the tobacco leaf when it is marketed. Changes are being made to freeze the support price on the 1983 crop at the 1982 level, and to phase out allotment leasing. This would have a drastic effect on North Carolina small farms.
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31418
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North Carolina’s Electric Membership Corporations have launched a new statewide effort to help state and local officials entice new industries into building plants within co-op service areas. This article explores how a major industry, dubbed the “Snowbird” plant, chose its site in Wake Forest and impacted the Wake County community.
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31419
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Marilyn McMinn-McCredie of Asheville is a concert performer, historian and folklorist, and a cultural ambassador for North Carolina mountaineers. Living in the past and present at the same time, Marilyn tours the state telling mountain folk stories and sharing her family’s oral traditions. She also teachers folklore courses and gives lectures on public story-telling.
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31420
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North Carolina’s college football teams all have the potential to win the Atlantic Coast Conference championship or other bowl games in the 1983 season. This article highlights each college football team, star players, and their coaches.
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31422
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A new television documentary on the Public Broadcasting Service station profiles the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. The documentary, “Where Dreams Debut,” gives a behind-the-scenes look at the hard work and dedication of some of America’s finest young performing artists.
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31423
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Spencer Shops State Historic Site, near Salisbury, is the former location of the largest Southern railway facility between Washington and Atlanta. The new exhibit, “People, Places and Times,” covers transportation history in North Carolina, from a prehistoric Indian canoe to a modern day airplane. This article discusses the history of the Southern Railway, and some of the features in the museum exhibit.
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31424
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North Carolina’s electric cooperatives are profiling prime industrial sites as part of a new determination to become a visible force in the competitive bidding for major industrial plants. They are doing this economic development “homework” so they can speak fluently with industry representatives about how much their territories have to offer. New industrial operations would improve the economy of the state’s rural areas.
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