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Beer, Bourbon, and Barbecue, Oh, My! 🍻🥃🐷
Get ready to pig out. The annual Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival is back at Koka Booth Amphitheatre Friday, Aug. 2, through Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. Enjoy two days of all-you-can-taste beer and bourbon, ‘cue vendors galore (offering everything from pulled pork to ribs to chicken, plus fixins’), seminars, games, live rock and blues music, shopping, and so much more. Beast mode: activated!
An A-maize-ing Cornament 🌽
Get it poppin’ and sign up for the Triangle YP Civitan Cornament on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, at Trophy’s Maywood Hall and Garden benefiting Special Olympics NC. Sign up to participate in the cornhole tournament, or just show up and enjoy bevs from Trophy Brewing, food, trucks, music, games, and a silent auction. You ~butter~ be there!
Heat advisory in place from until 8 p.m., feels-like temps in 100s
Thursday brings a mix of sun and clouds with an isolated evening storm, one or two of those storms could be strong to severe. Also a dangerously hot with a temperature of 97 and feels like of up to 107.Download our mobile app to get weather and breaking news 24/7, 365!There is also a level 1 severe weather risk for the Triangle.Friday: Partly cloudy with a few evening storms. High of 96 with feels like temps of up to 108.Saturday-Sunday: Partly cloudy with scattered evening storms. Highs in the low to mid-90s.July ended as hot as it rolled in. Wednesday's high was in the mid 90s and feels temperatures of up to 104. The sunny start was followed by some afternoon clouds and the chance of an isolated evening storm.On July 5, Raleigh recorded the hottest day ever with temperatures of 106.Several cities are again activating areas for cooling stations.
Commissioner says association can't run away from NIL policy
(The Center Square) – Potential policy that would cover high school athletes in North Carolina being paid for product endorsements was brought before the state Board of Education on Wednesday. Que Tucker, commissioner of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, said, “This not about paying students to play. It’s about using your name, your image and your likeness because you own it.” An increasing number of states are allowing...
NCCU to Enhance Nursing Programs with $1.9 Million UNC System Grant
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) is among 12 institutions and health education centers to receive funding from the University of North Carolina System to address the state’s nursing workforce shortage as part of its Health Care Workforce Expansion Initiative. NCCU’s portion of the grant is $1,935,528. Like many...
Families rally to urge North Carolina lawmakers to fully fund private-school vouchers
Dozens of North Carolina parents held a rally on Wednesday to urge Republican legislators to fully fund scholarships for children to attend private and religious schools after lawmakers failed to work out an agreement earlier this year to meet the program's soaring demand.
Rack Room Shoes Revives Real People Campaign with North Carolina-Based Social Media Influencers The Jarretts
Adidas Raises Guidance as Q2 Revenue Growth Surges 11 Percent Rack Room Shoes has revived its Real People campaign for the fall 2024 season, highlighting actual customers of the popular shoe retailer. This time around, the company has partnered again with the Jarrett family — social media influencers and business owners from North Carolina — to feature the family of six in the campaign. Torrie and Brenton Jarrett are raising their four children on a farm and documenting their experiences on their blog @Willowbrookfarmlife while also running their renovation company, Willowbrook Builders, and their coffee shop, Willowbrook Grounds. “We tackle everything as a team,”...
More to be done to embrace, drive innovation economy: Report
(The Center Square) – Although North Carolina’s economy is doing well and keeping pace with the rest of America, the state still needs to do more to “embrace and drive” innovation, according to a new report by the North Carolina Board of Science, Technology & Innovation. “Technology and innovation are key ingredients of a high-productivity, […]
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