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Hone Your Storm Smarts

Hurricane tracking data can help you be prepared

Carolina Kitchen

Tomato-Swiss Slab Pie

Tomato-Swiss Slab Pie

With Fresh Dill

Crispy Fish Sandwich

Crispy Fish Sandwich

With Roasted Tomato, Peach and Nectarine Jam

Banana Nut Bread

Banana Nut Bread

Put this creamy multi-tasker to work in your kitchen

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Carolina People

A ‘Perfect Daddy’, Gone Too Soon

A ‘Perfect Daddy’, Gone Too Soon

Recalling the life of a Pee Dee Electric lineman

All Things Equestrian

All Things Equestrian

Rose Cushing has turned her love of horses into a prolific multimedia career

Saving the Fish House

Saving the Fish House

Ocracoke Islanders keep their fishing heritage alive

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Carolina Adventures

Canton: A Reinvented Mill Town

Canton: A Reinvented Mill Town

This mountain gem is worth a stop off I-40

NC Festival is a Bear Lovers’ Paradise

NC Festival is a Bear Lovers’ Paradise

Celebrate black bears and blackberries in Plymouth

Spend a Weekend in Raleigh on a Budget

Spend a Weekend in Raleigh on a Budget

The City of Oaks offers something for everyone

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Your Energy

Choose your pots and pans wisely

Choose your pots and pans wisely

Your choice of cookware can help you save energy

Change your filter for savings

Change your filter for savings

If you aren't regularly changing your HVAC filter, you could be losing money

Getting Hot in the Kitchen?

Getting Hot in the Kitchen?

In summer, choose appliances that won't make your A/C work too hard

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What people are saying

North Carolina's Lavender Landscapes
New to North Carolina anxious to learn about this great state.

Ruby mikulas

Indian Arrowheads of the Piedmont
Email me and ill send pics

Amanda Fender

Broadband Bill Opens Up Options for Electric Co-ops
This is fantastic for us in rural areas. I am not the only one in my area. Now the question can I get internet? It’s living in a time...

Gerri Osborne

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