Ray Gronberg
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5. What’s the latest on school calendar start and end dates?
Under North Carolina law, traditional public schools are prohibited from starting the school year sooner than the Monday closest to...
6. City’s power bill to plummet
High Point’s cost to purchase wholesale power is projected to drop by $7 million this year, but the city will...
7. Town attempt to control recordings at meetings may violate NC law
After a new town policy restricting recordings of meetings drew complaints that it appears to violate North Carolina’s Open Meetings...
8. State commissions adopt fisheries catch-reporting rules
Temporary harvest reporting rules for coastal recreational and commercial fishers were adopted Thursday by the advisory boards to the state...
9. Embattled Summerfield names an interim town manager
With as much turmoil that’s going on in Summerfield right now, you might think no one would want the job...
10. Dare towns drop lawsuit over state housing funds
With Dare County mandated to return $35 million in housing funds to the state, a suit filed last year by...
1. As complaints mount over long waits, DMV head questioned by NC lawmakers
Lawmakers began questioning the head of the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles Thursday, an interrogation that comes as the...
2. Cherokee vote passes: NC’s first recreational marijuana market likely in ’60-75 days’
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council has voted to amend Tribal Code to allow the sale of recreational...
3. Asheville nurses rally for change at Mission Hospital ahead of union contract renegotiation
Nearly 100 Asheville nurses rallied outside Mission Hospital on Wednesday morning, less than a month before the renegotiation of their...
4. Judge sides with NC tourism businesses that coastal county can’t start school Aug. 13
A judge is blocking a popular North Carolina tourism area from defying the state’s school calendar law. The Carteret County...
5. More presidential candidates could be on North Carolina ballot with signature drives
This fall’s presidential ballot in battleground North Carolina appears poised to lengthen after three political movements seeking to run candidates...
6. NC Board of Education upholds closing of troubled Kinston charter school
Children’s Village Academy, a K-8 charter school in Kinston, will be forced to close at the end of this month....
7. New zoning could spur development along railroad corridor in Waynesville
A new economic engine for Waynesville would open up the railroad track corridor through town to more types of development,...