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Tom Lundy, Catawba County manager, has been elected to a one-year term as president of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). He has served as Catawba County's manager since 1979. As president of the executive board, “he will preside over four board meetings and represent the association's executive board at state association and affiliate meetings.†Lundy is the fourth professional manager from North Carolina to serve as president during the association's 90-year history.
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The North Carolina Department of Labor's Consultative Services Bureau presented the town of Nags Head the prestigious Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) award. The award is given to “agencies that have met rigorous occupational safety and health standards.†Nags Head is the only municipality in North Carolina to have received this award.
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Goldsboro's water treatment program has gone to the dogs. In 2003, the Goldsboro Constructed Wetlands program began operation. The wetlands filter advanced treated wastewater through thirteen species of native plants before it flows into the Neuse River. A problem soon developed. Ducks and geese starting pulling up the plantings on the forty-acre project. To counter the waterfowl's activities, border collies, a breed noted for high intelligence, were trained to chase off the birds. The dogs work at least five days a week, and the plant destruction has been reduced.
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On October 18, 2004, the U.S. Coast Guard officially handed the keys to the forty-five-year-old Oak Island Lighthouse over to Caswell Beach. The municipality becomes the first town in North Carolina to have a lighthouse. The town got the lighthouse as part of the National Park Service's Lands to Parks program, which gives surplus federal land to communities for parks and recreational uses at no cost. Value of the lighthouse and land is estimated at $5 million.
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7077
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Smart growth has been characterized as an approach to land use planning that makes communities healthy, attractive, and enduring places to live, work, and play. Two North Carolina cities are among the five nationwide winners in the Environmental Protection Agency's 2004 National Awards for Smart Growth Achievement. Davidson received the award for Overall Excellence in Smart Growth and Greensboro received it for the Southside Neighborhood Plan. Two towns in California and one in New Mexico were the other winners.
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7163
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Begun in 1980 as a project for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the North Carolina Main Street program has assisted cities in revitalizing and preserving their central business districts. In the past twenty-five years Main Street Program towns have created over 10,000 new jobs and rehabilitated over 2,500 buildings.
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Terry Rolan has served Durham for thirty years, first as a sanitary engineer and now as director of water management. He was recently chosen president-elect of the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He is the first North Carolinian to serve in that capacity since the organization was founded in 1921.
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On March 8, 2005, the city of Bath will begin a year-long celebration marking its 300th anniversary. This is the first time in the state's history that an incorporated town is celebrating its tricentennial. Activities during the year include a visit by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, who will hold services at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in April; a performance of the outdoor drama Blackbeard, Knight of the Black Flag in June; and Maritime Heritage Days in September.
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When Fred Turnage was elected mayor of Rocky Mount in 1973, he was the youngest person ever elected to that office. He has been mayor ever since. He dealt with some contentious issues during his tenure as mayor, including Sunday “blue†laws; liquor by the drink; and the merger of the city and county school systems. One of his greatest challenges was the flood of 1999. Turnage plans to retire after his ninth term.
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Mixed-use development combines retail, office, and residential opportunities in a walkable vicinity. It is a development trend that is taking root in city centers and suburbs all over the country. People want to live closer to places where they work, shop, and dine. Lail discusses how this building concept is working in a number of cities and towns in North Carolina, including Huntersville and Hendersonville.
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On April 2, 2005, Lethia Hankins, a member of the Wilmington City Council, received the 2005 Dorothy Height Racial Justice Award. She was honored for her work in easing racial tensions in southeastern North Carolina during her thirty-five-year teaching career with the New Hanover County Schools. Previous award winners include former President William Jefferson Clinton.
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The e-NC Authority succeeds the Rural Internet Access Authority, which was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2000 and builds on its work to connect people to the Internet and a better future. The Authority works with all one hundred of the state's counties with a focus on rural and distressed urban areas. High-speed Internet access is available to 82 percent of the state's households and is available to more than 50 percent of local citizens in ninety-one out of North Carolina's one hundred counties.
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The Municipal Administration course is offered by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to municipal managers, department heads, and other officials. At the close of instruction, class members vote anonymously for the student who best meets the criteria for the George Franklin Award. Franklin was one of the N.C. League of Municipalities' former counsels. Jim Westmoreland, director of transportation for Greensboro, is the 2004 winner of the award. Since 1954, over 2,500 individuals have completed the course.
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U.S. Highway 64 stretches from North Carolina's western border to the ocean, and along its 543 miles are a variety of interesting things to see and do. In the last of a three-part series, Lail describes an approximately 170-mile stretch of 64 of diverse town from Gamewell to Murphy.
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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. Seven projects were honored in 2004. Three of them were directly related to municipal governments: Jersey City Revitalization, Salisbury; Capitol Park, Raleigh; and Aster Park at Gateway Commons, Winston-Salem.
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