"The opportunities an urban forest affords are in fact far more than the limited scope other development opportunities may ...

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The town hopes to use 14 acres of the 500-acre donation to create a "passive park," Toner said, for the public with walking and biking trails. If all goes according to plan, the trails could tie into ...

New Hanover’s 85-acre expansion of Smith Creek Park in Murrayville is the latest venue for the development debate. At the ...

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The best-selling author based “The Notebook” and other heart-tugging novels in New Bern, where he lives. But what makes the ...

On the west side of Ann Street is a parking lot that used to be for a hotel. The hotel has since been demolished and the town ...

She filed 10 sovereign documents in court over a two-month period and then declared victory when the harried prosecutor decided to drop the case. Sovereign citizens have also perpetrated a number of ...