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How a woman from North Carolina set a record time on the Appalachian Trail
Tara Dower recorded the trail's Fastest Known Time by completing 2,197 miles in nearly 41 days. What put her on this path? A love of mountain running…
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Let's all zoom in on Greensboro's ugliest spot
Someone made a video where they browsed Google Street View until they found a spot in North Carolina that was "ugly." Is there a lesson we can learn…
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Bad Weather Isn't Enough To Make Power Companies Bury Their Lines. So What Is?
After storms and widespread outages, electrical companies and experts always say it's too expensive to put all overhead power lines underground. In the…
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The view from Asheville: A city without running water
In this essay, journalist Jessica Wakeman describes the new norms of life when taps don't work, bathroom rules have changed, showers are scarce, and…
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The Town Meeting
In Black Mountain, the modern ways of communicating aren't working after Hurricane Helene. So town leaders are getting information out with a method…
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Mick Jagger went to a dive bar in Charlotte and literally everybody missed him
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The story behind an Outer Banks house that collapsed into the ocean
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Clogger, TikTok Thyself
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An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster
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Western NC Open Thread: What do you need/know/want?
Here's a space for this newsletter's readers to share what we know, or what to know after Hurricane Helene.
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Why Helene is going to be so bad in western North Carolina
A hurricane that formed in the Gulf of Mexico is barrelling north towards the mountains, where catastrophic flooding is likely to happen. So we asked a…
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Why Everybody Instantly Found Ryan Routh's Old Arrest in Greensboro
A man who authorities are connecting to an assassination attempt against the former president shows up a LOT in his hometown's newspaper archives. So…
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What It's Like At (Nearly) The Top Of North Carolina's Tallest Structure
Years ago, I met a man who took me up more than 1,800 feet above the ground in Gaston County. Here's how I got up there, what I saw, and what it's like…
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The Ice Rink In The Mall
Finally, somebody's going to build SOMETHING on the site of the old Eastland Mall in Charlotte. Whatever it is, it will not be nearly as bizarre as the…
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Let's Remember Some North Carolina Towns
I asked you all to name a town in this state. For science. More than 600 of you did.
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A Quick Story About Rockingham
It's sort of about the track. It's mostly about what to do when someone tells you something they shouldn't have.
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What's this blacktop-looking stuff in the water at North Topsail Beach?
The Rabbit Hole attempts to settle a long-standing debate over the dark and slimy debris along one of North Carolina's most well-known waterfronts.
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What happens when you rebuild a downtown on higher ground?
Two flood-prone North Carolina towns rebuilt their downtown districts in new places. Did it work?
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