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World Cat, with an additional facility in Greenville builds outboard powered center and dual console catamaran models. These were named first place among North Carolina statewide nominations.
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44302
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This article reviews some significant past winter storm events in the town of Tarboro. Earliest notation is the winter of 1848. The winters of 1856 and 1857 were particularly active. In January 1857, it was reported that the Tar River had frozen over. With some successive snow falls , the thermometer eventually reached 5 below zero. Most notorious was the 1927 blizzard that stopped all forms of traffic, including, railroad trains from the Norfolk area.
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Author Monika Fleming talks about winter storms for Tarboro in more recent memory. Included are the 1967 spring Blizzard, the March 1980 storm and most destructive, the Dec. 9, 1989 ice storm. Major storms were recorded in January 2009 and January 2010.
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Originally incorporated in 1901, Speed will relinquish its charter on June 30, 2026. The town currently has 63 residents. Recent troubles began with late audits and inability to recover from them.
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Dot Webb joined W.C. Ranes Co., a certified public accounting business in Tarboro in 1958 without any experience. She learned bookkeeping through her work and later instructed a host of other people. She recently retired in 2026 and recollects the highlights of her career.
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It is noted that four facilities in North Carolina, including one planned for Tarboro will act as final stops in Amazon's transportation network before packages are delivered to customers. the Tarboro facility will have approximately 70,000 square feet of space and will be located in the Tarboro Commerce Center.
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44303
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Locating a 32 acre parcel in the Tarboro Commerce Center, the facility is expected to employ about 50 persons. the goal is to reduce wait time for orders, even to the point of a customer similarly being able to drive to the store.
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44694
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Amazon purchased the 31.8 acre property in 2024. Promoters notes the facility strengthens Edgecombe county as a logistics center for industrial concerns along eastern North Carolina's transportation network.
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Weldon Mills Distillery opened in 2019 in a former 1892 corn mill in Weldon. In its brief existence , it is able to boast as being among the finest bourbon distilleries in the world. In 2021, it won the International Whiskey Competition's Best Cask Strength Bourbon Whiskey Award. tours with trolley service are provided to the public.
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44503
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A graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, Knicole Bryant, a Tarboro High School graduate recently launched Tailored Dreams Academy in Tarboro.
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44149
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B.C. Carlisle began the business in 1874 in conjunction with building furniture and caskets. a noticeable change in the business came after COVID, with less floral designs, more cremations and more visitations than funerals.
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This replica display includes copies of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and the nation's Civil Rights Amendments. Roosevelt Higgs began the project in 2023 after approaching the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners. The display is the 69th one in the United States and the 41st one in North Carolina.
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Noted in the article are stores from the communities of Crisp, Coakley, Kingsboro, Mildred, Suggs Crossroads, Conetoe and Old Sparta.
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44814
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The author shares names, locations and a collection of memories by various people concerning small country stores in Edgecombe County. Of those reviewed, a few ere built in the 1800s, but were built in the period between 1920 and 1970.
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DeBerry's Colonial Dining Room was a fixture in Tarboro from 1940s through the 1960s. Located across from the Town Common in a house thought to be one of Tarboro's oldest, the restaurant was featured in a 1959 Duncan Hines Travel Guide. Remembered are recipes like grated sweet potato pudding. Noted cook was Gussie Harrell. Historical documents related to the business have recently been added to digitalnc.org.
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