Two hundred and nineteen gingerbread house entrants took part in the nation’s largest Annual National Gingerbread House Competition in Asheville, N.C. this week. The Omni Grove Park Inn has held the contest for 30 years and this time upped the ante awarding $40,000 in cash and prizes, a 60% increase to years past. This year, there were new specialty awards like...
In 2019, barbeque pitmaster Mark Shirley of Walstonburg decided to test his entrepreneurial skills by launching his own food truck business, Ole Time Smokehouse. If he succeeded, he thought, he might eventually expand into a brick-and-mortar restaurant. Ole Time Smokehouse was indeed a hit, as Shirley built up a base of loyal customers in and...
With housing prices sky high across North Carolina's urban areas, many local governments are increasing funding to government "affordable housing" programs. The latest example came this week, with the Wake County Board of Commissioners unanimously approving another $35 million for affordable housing spending.
With the elections out of the way, pollsters can now focus on the important questions, like which pie North Carolinians prefer to consume after their Thanksgiving turkey. And the numbers are in, with pumpkin pie being the state’s clear favorite for the second year in a row. The High Point University Survey Research Center asked...