Ray Gronberg
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2. Officials decry dredging red tape at Environmental Review Commission meeting
Frustration boiled over during public comments at a March 6 Environmental Review Commission meeting (ERC) described as a Presentation to...
3. A rural North Carolina school district welcomes affordable housing complex for teachers
When Otis Smallwood was hired to be superintendent of Bertie County Schools — a return home to the school district...
4. High demand means tens of thousands may be shut out of NC school vouchers
Critics of North Carolina’s school voucher programs like to say that even millionaires can now get public money to help...
5. How legal sports betting in NC heaps another element of pressure on college athletes
Playing college basketball for top programs such as Duke or North Carolina, in sold-out arenas on national TV, naturally brings...
6. This 21-year-old Republican beat a 10-term incumbent. What’s next for Wyatt Gable?
While his college friends celebrated the end of midterm exams with a spring break trip to Florida, 21-year-old Wyatt Gable...
7. Urban bear sightings on the rise
Kim Parker was spending a normal weekend afternoon with family in the living room when she spied something out the...
8. ‘Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking:’ Sparta’s Mayor addresses sudden resignation following Tuesday’s town hall meeting
The Mayor of Sparta addressed his sudden resignation during a meeting Friday. In a room full of people, Mayor Wes...
9. Buncombe County school board reluctantly adopts ‘ridiculous,’ GOP-fueled electoral map
After months of deliberation and more than $40,000 spent, the Buncombe County Board of Education begrudgingly approved an electoral map...
10. Pinehurst Manager’s resignation letter criticizes Village Council
Pinehurst Manager Jeff Sanborn, in a Feb. 27 resignation letter to the Village Council, cites a volatile “political environment” within...
1. No safe haven
Soon after Ben Hanna and his wife Mandy bought seven acres of land near Nevada City, California in 2015, the...
2. Cooper, Robinson, Truitt talk North Carolina education funding, Leandro and vouchers
Gov. Roy Cooper attended the state board of education meeting Thursday morning to share his thoughts on public school funding....
3. County commissioners have water on the brain
Based on the conversation the Guilford County Board of Commissioners had with water infrastructure experts on Thursday, March 7 at...
4. Gastonia’s Whatley to lead RNC with Trump’s backing
When Gastonia resident Michael Whatley was running for chair of the North Carolina GOP several years ago, some of his...