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Lee County hopes biotech bet will pay off (The News-Press)
Lee County plunged millions of dollars deep into the expensive and ultra-competitive life-science industry last week.Cocke County Battles for Less Pollution from North Carolina Paper Mill (Metro Pulse) “When they first started dumping poisons in this river, we had Civil War veterans living along the shore,” Lee Willis of the Cocke County Water Advisory Council told a crowd of 500 at Cocke County High School on Jan. 25. “We have lived with fear and anxiety for 100 years.”
County planners issue statement opposing discharges by mill in N.C. into Pigeon River (The Newport Plain Talk) NEWPORT-The Cocke County Planning Commission issued a statement, or letter, last week on behalf of the planning board that expresses strong opposition to the polluting of the Pigeon River by a North Carolina paper mill upstream from Cocke County.
Rivers rise after winter storms (WRAL.com Raleigh) Rising water trapped an elderly couple in their car Sunday night on a road north of Sanford. Rivers across North Carolina are rising after storms systems that have dropped heavy rain and snow since late January.
‘Lib’ Lee, pioneering architect, dies at 81 (The Robesonian) LUMBERTON — Elizabeth Bobbitt Lee, the architect who designed the Robeson County Courthouse and was one North Carolina’s first female architects, died Tuesday. She was 81. She died at Southeastern...
Life of service for Pender County nurse crossed seas (The Wilmington Star-News) By Ben Steelman Ben.Steelman@StarNewsOnline.com Funeral services are planned Monday for Mary Lee Mills, a pioneering African-American nurse from Pender County whose career took her around the world. “I was just out at the right time,” she once said, modestly.
Residents return home after mudslides (USA Today) Residents evacuated from neighborhoods buried in mudslides north of Los Angeles were allowed to return home Sunday.
Williamson receives achievement award (Washington Daily News) Lee Williamson is one of those people who is just great at multi-tasking.
Surface mining allows cattle to graze on land previously unusable say proponents (Bristol Herald Courier) Danny Cantrell’s cattle graze on a green pasture above his Wise County home, with a panoramic view of tree-covered mountains.
GOP candidates file first (Burlington Times-News) A trio of Republican General Assembly candidates kicked off filing at the Alamance County Board of Elections on Monday. District 64 Rep. and former Commissioner Vice Chairman Dan Ingle was the first to file at noon. Following Ingle were District 63...