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2315
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The Raleigh Neighborhood Police Officer Program places officers in stressed areas as a crime deterrent. Officers receive a rent-free home for two years and must spend a minimum of 20 hours monthly of their own time becoming involved with residents.
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2320
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Recycling by the state's municipalities has become profitable, bringing higher prices than two years ago. Because of previous contract commitments or insufficient personnel for handling recycling, however, not all cities are benefitting from the trend.
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2389
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Many state cities, like Jacksonville, are resorting to curfews to set limits for youth whose parents will not. The curfew helps curb vandalism, control juvenile crime, and reduce chances for young people to become victims or be lured into crime.
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2398
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When Hazelwood and Waynesville in Haywood County consolidate July 1, 1995, it will be only the fifth city-city merger in the state this century. Mergers of cities and counties are even rarer.
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2399
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To bring companies and jobs to their area, competing cities sometimes offer attractive incentives, like use of a speculative building. While this can be a sound business approach, it can also be detrimental, creating costs that have not been budgeted.
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2400
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Raleigh's new Development Plan Review Center has reduced the time for reviewing a developer's plans from 25 days to 5 days. The one person/one plan approach provides the developers with a facilitator for guidance through the plan approval process.
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2401
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327 out of 524 cities in the state responded to a North Carolina League of Municipalities survey on 28 types of ordinances. Most common were zoning for manufactured homes and vicious dogs, while least common were those pertaining to AIDS.
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2464
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Begun in Southern Shores, Project Blue Sky seeks to develop safer building practices and materials to withstand natural disasters. Now involving federal and state agencies, together with educational institutions, it has become a national pilot program.
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2475
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Although nonpoint pollution (pollution not originating in a pipe) has such sources as mining, construction, and failing septic tanks, it took pollution spillage from collapsed hog waste lagoons to dramatize the need for closer management of this problem.
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2508
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With crime rising across the state, police departments are fighting back with innovative programs like Charlotte's Domestic Violence Unit and Serious Juvenile Crime Unit and Winston-Salem's Court Case Management Unit.
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2509
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Begun in 1994 in Greene County, the Community Work Program pays low-risk prison inmates for short, local government projects, like weeding and painting. Currently 17 prison units are providing 56 crews for work.
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2615
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Former Scotland Neck mayor Ferd L. Harrison received the 1995 NLC President's Award for 37 years of public service both locally and nationally. He is the only league president elected from a city with a population under 50,000.
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2616
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The Belhaven Memorial Museum is an eclectic assemblage of items collected by Eva Blount Way, who died in 1962 at age 92. Occupying one floor of the town hall, it includes 30,000 buttons, a whale skull, and photographs of hurricanes.
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2617
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Many cities have residential recycling programs, but few have ones for businesses. Greensboro's Environmental Business Partners involves over 100 businesses in recycling expansion and environmental education.
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2618
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U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno presented the 1995 William French Smith Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cooperative Law Enforcement to Raleigh Police Captain Michael L. Longmire.
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