Carolina Stories

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Insulated window shades boost comfort while lowering energy use

12 Halloween recipes for your next party

Five haunted reads

The taste of autumn

A couple of tasty apple dishes to share with friends and family

A deer in the headlights = Trouble on the highway

Vehicle collisions with deer are becoming more common. Drive carefully during the late fall mating season.

Adventures in the sky

New aerial parks in North Carolina teach and excite participants

Fall for the blues

Plus Garden To-Do’s for October and November

Piedmont Electric helps create jobs and safer communities

Do dimmer switches work with CFL and LED lights?

Famous visitors

From Our Readers: Of Cabins and Co-ops

October’s letters to the editor

Hot potato!

How my Mama cared for two families

Her young brother and sister from the orphanage, and her own four children

It gave us new visions

A farmer in Iredell County recalls the beginnings of Surry-Yadkin EMC

It’s Revolutionary!

Keeping rooms comfy

Balancing temperatures in a two-story home By Jim Dulley

Lead-based paint hazards at home

North Carolina braces for avian flu

If there’s an outbreak, it won’t affect eggs and meat, but flocks and farmers could suffer.

October is National Co-op Month

Retired Duke CEO looks to a cooperative business structure for ‘lighting the world’

The Breakfast Ladies

Weekend warrior painting

5 easy projects to tackle

The power of second chances

Year of the Amphibian