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If one reads between the lines of a series of grants recently awarded by e-NC, it is clear an integrated network is being assembled to provide high-speed internet access across Eastern North Carolina. e-NC, which is in effect the Rural Internet Access Authority, passed out nearly $6 million to a variety of groups statewide that want to speed up internet connectivity. But the lion's share is directed down east.
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Each school year, more than 1.3 million students--90 percent of all public school-aged children in the state--are education in more than 2200 traditional and charter public schools in North Carolina. North Carolina's public schools lead the nation in progress--a fact confirmed by many studies and rankings.
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Cader Harris of Elizabeth city has been awarded the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award. Harris, 84, received the award, which is given to \"unsung heroes\" annually, for his work in promoting good race relations in his community.
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17080
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It wasn't until the late 1960s that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals made a home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thirty-three years later, the SPCA is taking another historic step: a $4.3 million fund raising campaign that is scheduled to yield a 17,000-square foot, state-of-the-art, pet adoption and education center in Raleigh.
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The meadow is back at Meadowmont; the meadow in question, a long-time Chapel Hill landmark once known as the DuBose farm is newly terraced and enhanced with meandering ponds. After less than 18 months of construction, much of the infrastructure needed to support Meadowmont, the Triangle's most ambitious mixed-used communities, is in place.
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17082
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Shanachie Records has just released a CD compilation of Reverend Gary Davis' music. Rev. Gary Davis, a major figure in the history of Piedmont Blues, is of particular importance to North Carolina, having spent a good deal of his life in the Tar Heel State.
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17083
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The battleship USS NORTH CAROLINA, which has been preserved as a memorial in Wilmington since 1961, turned 60 in April. Nicknamed the \"Showboat\" in part because of all the press received, the NORTH CAROLINA was commissioned into the Navy 60 years ago. Construction started in 1937.
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17085
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The Research Triangle park and Eastern North Carolina (Greenville and Jacksonville) climbed in the FORBES MAGAZINE \"Best Places\" index, providing proof that high-tech is spreading across eastern North Carolina.
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Raleigh native Jim Crew, a well-known keyboard player among Triangle jazz and salsa fans, has discovered that composing music for the virtual world can be a rewarding gig. Crew has been working for the software developer Random Games, located in Morrisville, for six years, composing music for their various computer game projects.
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17087
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One of the best kept secrets in eastern North Carolina is an Americana music series being presented at a de-commissioned Baptist church in Nashville, North Carolina.
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17088
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In a major coup for American arts, ballet now competes with basketball for the Triangle's adoration and respect. Now, with the grace of a pas de chat, Carolina Ballet expands its repertoire, reach, and budget deficit.
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17089
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After almost 20 years of development on the rare stretch of Atlantic sand, Bald Head Island Limited is presenting its jewel: Cape Fear Station, the island's newest residential neighborhood and the culmination of the developer's thoughtful and evolving environment-oriented design strategy.
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17090
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A team of North Carolina dentists has returned from working near \"Ground Zero\" in New York where they helped identified victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, September 11.
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17091
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Two eastern North Carolinians, Dr. Pete Daniel of Spring Hope and Washington, D.C., and LuAnn Jones of East Carolina University, made key presentations at the fourth annual symposium of the Southern Foodways Alliance held recently in Oxford, Mississippi. The Alliance, a non-profit operating as a part of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss, is working to \"celebrate, preserve, promote and nurture the traditional diverse food culture of the American South.\"
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17092
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At the end of a tree-lined avenue, the grand turn-of-the-century Carolina hotel stand majestically surrounded by well-tended gardens and neatly clipped lawns. This rambling Colonial Revival hotel is the jewel-in-the-crown of Pinehurst, the 2000 acre resort complex in the Sandhills of North Carolina that includes the premier Pinehurst Country Club and some of the most famous golf courses in the world.
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