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Emerging technologies that will make indoor and outdoor lighting more efficient.

How Ocracoke learned that one of its own went down with his ship off North Carolina’s coast during World War II

Linemen Leonard Person and Kenny Simmons did it faster than anyone.

“Cash mobs” recognize and support local businesses in one fell swoop

In the dark? Here’s what your co-op does after a major power outage.

Depression-era artwork in post offices expressed local history and hope

Known as “the grain that grows on a tree,” chestnuts now can be grown locally.

How will the mounting deficit at the Postal Service affect rural mail delivery?

On that Saturday afternoon, his life changed forever.