Ray Gronberg
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5. Summerfield Town Council votes to give departing manager severance pay
When, on Sunday, May 19, the entire full-time Summerfield town staff collectively and simultaneously announced their resignation – shocking town...
6. Fayetteville, Cumberland County want to offer millions to attract titanium company
A titanium reclamation plant proposed for Fayetteville and Cumberland County would represent an investment of at least $1 billion and...
7. As NCDOT buys land for I-26 Connector, negotiation can pay off for property owners, Watchdog analysis shows
After 35 years of talking, planning, designing and redesigning, the I-26 Connector project is finally underway, and the North Carolina...
8. Kitty Hawk Planning Board recommends proposal to let businesses create more worker housing
At its May 16 meeting, the Kitty Hawk Planning Board took a step toward potentially making it easier to create...
9. Boone council hits the brakes on downtown parking proposal
The Town of Boone is going back to the drawing board on its bevy of changes to parking downtown after...
10. Former Pinehurst Village Council member files appeal
Former Pinehurst Village Council Member Kevin Drum and his non-profit, NC Citizens for Transparent Government, Inc., have filed an appeal...
1. Shuttered N.C. veterans home had problems for years
Two days before Thanksgiving, Lt. Gen. Walter Gaskin visited the North Carolina State Veterans Home in Fayetteville to make a...
2. Judge’s backing of AdventHealth over Mission Health for new Weaverville hospital keeps pressure on HCA
An administrative judge decided May 10 to uphold the state’s decision to allow AdventHealth to build a hospital in Weaverville,...
3. After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the...
4. Pressure mounting on water, sewer revenues
In the near term, Johnston’s water and sewer operations are in strong financial health, the county’s financial adviser told commissioners...
5. Lowell mayor calling for audit on past budgets
Lowell’s newly elected mayor is calling for an audit of the city’s budgets going years back as the City Council...
6. The Triangle region has another interstate highway in its future
Toyota is building its first car battery manufacturing plant in Randolph County off U.S. 421, about 20 miles southeast of...
7. Stable child care in Watauga County would add 300 employees to the local economy, study finds
Insufficient child care is keeping 300 individuals out of the labor pool in Watauga County, a new study estimates. “If...