North Carolina has market cornered on NBA Draft
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... That's where the draft's deepest collection of players can be found on the roster of the national champion University of North Carolina. ...

North Carolina Voting Problems Continue
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
Fletcher, who trails Democrat June Atkinson by 8,535 votes for the job to run North Carolina's public schools, wants at least 11,310 out-of-precinct ...

Record real estate sales heat up North Carolina
Inman.com (subscription) - Emeryville,CA,USA
For the fifth straight month, sales of North Carolina's existing homes increased by double digits in May, continuing a record-setting trend, according to ...

Promoting North Carolina Books (and my favorite TV program)
Chatham Journal Weekly - Pittsboro,NC,USA
Every now and then you all let me promote my favorite TV program, UNC-TV's North Carolina Bookwatch. The program, which I am honored ...

Catch North Carolina's Venus flytrap trail
USA Today - USA
... architecture and year-round fishing, golfing and boating are a few of the best-known attractions in the Wilmington-Cape Fear area of the North Carolina coast. ...

North Carolina Ranked Tops In Economic Development
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
"Southern Business and Development" Magazine placed North Carolina atop of its list along with Alabama in job development in the South. ...

University of North Carolina Wilmington to Explore Gender as ...
AScribe - USA
... women drink to feel more equal to men are among the motivations that will be explored over the next two years at the University of North Carolina Wilmington as ...

Celebrate Independence Day with the North Carolina Symphony and ...
NCSymphony.org - USA
Enjoy a red, white and blue 4th of July with the North Carolina Symphony at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary's Regency Park. Our ...

Custom Staffing expands into North Carolina
Jacksonville Business Journal - Jacksonville,FL,USA
A local staffing firm has opened an office in Charlotte, its first outside of Florida and fourth overall. The newest office for Custom Staffing Inc. ...

Asheville's Riddle Lundblad leads US team to world gold
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
Anne Riddle Lundblad, 39, of Asheville, took home the silver medal in the International Association of Ultrarunners World Cup 100K Sunday in Lake Saroma, Japan ...

Asheville runner 2nd in World Cup 100K
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
Anne Riddle Lundblad, 38, of Asheville, took home the silver medal in the International Association of Ultrarunners World Cup 100K Sunday in Lake Saroma, Japan ...

Geungerich's grand slam lifts East Asheville
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
Summoning every ounce of his strength, the 4-foot-8 seventh grader from Asheville Christian Academy smacked his first career grand slam to lift East Asheville ...

Asheville Sister Cities parade seeks local participants
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Asheville will celebrate the diversity of its sister cities in Russia, Mexico, France and Greece during Tuesday's Asheville Sister Cities ...

Asheville Creative Services Group announces new relationship with ...
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista,CA,USA
(PRLEAP.COM) Asheville, NC - Hippo Internet Marketing, a member of the Asheville Creative Services Group since July of 2003 is now a Resource Partner with ACSG ...

Etkin: Koshansky takes it easier on himself, but not the ...
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
Last month, roving infield instructor Bobby Meacham called Class A Asheville first baseman Joe Koshansky the most polished infielder in the Colorado Rockies ...

OUT THERE: News and briefs from around the region
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
Asheville and Buncombe County leaders have planned a long-awaited public meeting Tuesday to discuss the dissolution of the 1981 Regional Water Authority ...

Royal Reception XV
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Nemacolin is ranked among the top 10 luxury resorts in ... enclosure was draped and swagged in blue and ivory ... Tom Ridge and Michele; Henley-in-Arden High Baliff ...

State Briefs
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... WEYERS CAVE - Blue Ridge Community College and Bridgewater College signed an agreement yesterday allowing Blue Ridge students who meet requirements to transfer ...

How I Almost Got Bit On My Butt By A Copperhead Because I Wanted A ...
Useless-Knowledge.com - USA
... Having climbed smaller waterfalls in the heat of summer in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park (GSMNP) years prior, I thought I would do that. ...

Property Transfers
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... Royal Wood Road, 3357, David and Teena Cline to Susan Michele Brewer, $83,000. Smokey Mountain Drive, 3408, Dale and Zelma Banks to Ryan Nolty, $103,400. ...

On the Beach -- in a Tent
MSNBC - USA
... KOAs all have a convenience store, swimming pool, and bicycle rentals. Among the KOAs near the beach: Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, Myrtle Beach in South ...

Eden to get new spot for video rentals
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... and Tennessee, said Rhodney Tozier, vice president for new store development. Eden will be its first venture into North Carolina. ...

The less-traveled road leads to new lessons, adventures
The Mountain Press - Sevierville,TN,USA
... Out of that grassroots effort grew Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries (SMARM), a ministry that serves more than 200 people per month - some of them homeless ...

Farm machinery enthusiasts gather for antique show
The Mountain Press - Sevierville,TN,USA
... The tractor show benefits the Smoky Mountain Children's Home in Sevierville and helps fund an agricultural engineering scholarship at The University of ...

First-Time Basket Event Set For Pigeon Forge
The Chattanoogan - Chattanooga,TN,USA
... major retailer and one of the top names in American crafts have scheduled a first-time basket event to bring more family fun to the Smoky Mountain region for ...

6/25 WWE Velocity review: Giebink's detailed match analysis and ...
Pro Wrestling Torch - USA
... I like them too and I think if they play the gimmick right (like the Gangstas did in Smoky Mountain, throwing people's stereotypes in their face), it should ...

Wilson 'cue king in hot seat
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... In July, he has a three-day date to share barbecue secrets with guests at the exclusive Blackberry Farm in the Smoky Mountain foothills of Tennessee, who will ...

Today's Briefings
The Mountain Press - Sevierville,TN,USA
... The Smoky Mountain Mineral Society educational geology tour and picnic will be held Thursday, July 7. Meet at 9 am at Waterville picnic area (take I-40 east ...

Wilderness connection
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Ah, wilderness: clean air, mountain vistas, star-filled sky and broadband Internet access ... be available at "picnic tables, tents, RV spaces and cabins of more ...

NED ROZELL PHOTO
Alaska Magazine - Alaska,USA
... Of 11 cabins in the White Mountains National Recreation Area, Crowberry was the only one ... The porch of last night's cabin--Cache Mountain--is red with fire ...

Rim to Rim
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... From the North Rim (most hikers tackle it from this direction) to the cabins of Phantom ... But if you hike up a mountain and you get tired, you can turn around ...

Yosemite Lodging Alternatives
gocalifornia.about.com - CA,USA
... I call Pine Mountain Lake one of the Sierra's best-kept secrets. ... option is the newly-renovated Evergreen Lodge, where you'll find fully-furnished cabins and a ...

Fourth of July Celebration in Gatlinburg Tennessee Includes the ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... City of Gatlinburg will light up their beautiful mountain skyline downtown 1 ... to make their summer reservations, before the Gatlinburg cabins, Gatlinburg chalets ...

Wildfire threatens Utah town, another chars 70,000 acres
USA Today - USA
... New Harmony home early Monday, watching the fire burn on the mountain just south ... blackened some 67,000 acres and destroyed five homes and two cabins built in ...

Nuttall Complex Fire Anniversary
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA
... They were worried their memories would go up in flames with the mountain. ... Firefighters put sprinklers around cabins and also surrounded them with aluminum foil ...

Flash floods swamp Henderson County
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
About 175 children were evacuated from Camp Judaea off US 64 after the summer camp's lake overflowed, damaging cars and cabins. ...

Recruiting battalion gets new commander
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... about 170 recruiters assigned to six companies, headquartered in Asheville, NC; Augusta ... Owings Historical Society for relocation of a historic log cabin and the ...

Gatlinburg business outlook unclear Restaurants and amusements ...
The Mountain Press - Sevierville,TN,USA
... Members of the Smoky Mountain Tourism Development Council, according to Perella, have talked about the increasing numbers of cabin rentals but don't have a ...

Latest deaths for June 27, 2005
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... SERVENTI, Frank J., 84, of Lincoln-Lemington, formerly of Carnegie and Gallitzin, Cambria County, died June 24. Gibbons Funeral Home, Ashville, Cambria County. ...

French Broad flood warning cancelled in Asheville
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg, SC has cancelled its flood warning for the French Broad River in Asheville, but a warning ...

Large crop of seaweed washing up on Grand Strand beaches
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
... said. "It was awful. I was in the water, and it would just hang on me," said Champion, on vacation from Asheville, NC. The seaweed ...

Johnson, NASCAR have come a long way
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... shacks and hear a supercharged Oldsmobile engine roaring over Brushy Mountain and say ... things you tried to avoid back then: hillbilly music, log cabins and stock ...

Pine, Strawberry now in growing fire's path
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... also are trying to keep it between the crest of the New River Mountain Range on ... The fire destroyed 11 houses and cabins in Camp Creek last week, but has not ...

Producing some happy campers
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... do what most kids do at summer camp, like swim in the lake, go mountain biking, learn ... They play host to up to 250 kids each week in 24 cabins, and project a ...

Winds help drive back fire
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... mph pushed a desert wildfire away from homes and up a mountain ridge Monday ... in the Mojave National Preserve that destroyed five homes and two cabins built in ...

Working knowledge of the land Aerial tour gives legislators ...
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
... two resorts, three recreational-vehicle parks, a golf course, a marina and rental cabins. ... or the 37,000 acres recently bought by the Appalachian Mountain Club. ...