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Judge OKs lower insurance-rate rises
Homeowners in the Triad and Northwest North Carolina will face a smaller increase on their insurance rates, if not a slight decline, beginning today.
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Lines keep growing at jobs office
Like most Triad employment officials and residents, Anne Bowlin can't put her finger directly on what's causing the dramatic increase in job losses in the Triad. All she knows is that the unemployment rate in the Triad -- which rose to 11.5 percent in February -- appears accurate because the lines keep getting longer in her offices at the N.C. Employment Security Commission.
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Homes get good rankings
A third of nursing-home centers in Forsyth County are ranked as above-average or better by the Centers of Medicaid & Medicare Services.
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Democrats win two seats on Alleghany Board of Commissioners
In the race for two seats on the Alleghany Board of Commissioners, Democrat Steve Roten and Democrat incumbent Ken Richardson won with 2,752 votes and 2,381, respectively. Republicans Chuck Billings and William Caudill trailed with 2,223 and 1,423. Gleason James, who is unaffiliated, received 827 votes.
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Early voting today extended by 4 hours
Faced with a state order to hold a meeting or face suspension, members of the Forsyth County Board of Elections voted 2-1 yesterday to extend the hours for early voting to 5 p.m. today.
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Missing Alleghany boy, mom found safe
A motorist on N.C. 18 near the Laurel Springs community found a missing Alleghany County boy and his mother walking along the highway a few minutes before 1 p.m. today, authorities said.
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Missing Alleghany boy may be in danger, authorities say
Alleghany authorities believe 7-year-old Matthew James Wood is in danger since leaving with his mother early Monday morning from a house in the Whitehead community.
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Alleghany opens its ropes course
Alleghany County has opened the first phase of a ropes course that is intended to serve students, families, corporations and other groups interested in team-building exercises.
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Teapot exhibit needs a splash less room
Organizers of the Sparta Teapot Museum, who more than a year ago scaled back the project and lost a commitment to exclusively display a collection of teapots, are now planning to sell 4 acres of the downtown site.
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Program to save pastureland helps farmers stay in business
Wilkes County farmer Claude Shew Jr., who bought his farm with his dad in 1978, has never seen a drought like the one the state is in now.
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Severe thunder storm watch in effect for northwestern N.C.
A severe thunder storm watch is in effect for Forsyth, Davidson, Davie, Stokes, Surry, Alleghany, Wilkes, and Yadkin counties until 8 p.m.
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Economic index shows decline in Western N.C.
The economy in Western North Carolina slowed again in March, falling 0.2 percentage points and erasing gains made in January and February.
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Bond issue gets vocal
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Asphalt plant is put on hold
SPARTA An asphalt company that won a legal battle to build a plant in Alleghany County more than a year ago has yet to build anything.
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Alleghany Wellness counts on volunteers
SPARTA In a small rural county, residents rely on each other to get things done. There are few other places where that rings more true than at the Alleghany Wellness Center -- a nonprofit gym with only one full-time employee that offers preventative medicine and rehabilitation to 967 active members.
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