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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – T-Mobile is rapidly ramping up plans for an aggressive rollout of 5G and wireless internet services across North Carolina. It’s already hiring additional help, including what the communications provider is calling “Hometown Experts” to help consumers and businesses get started with faster services than traditional 4G. Efforts in North Carolina are part of a national plan unveiled on Wednesday, one that puts emphasis on smaller communities as T-Mobile and competi...

Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY Sports After an illustrious nine-year stint as the head coach at Winthrop, Pat Kelsey accepted a well-deserved promotion last week. As the leader of the Winthrop program, Kelsey guided the Eagles to eight winning seasons in nine years. Kelsey compiled a 185-95 record and qualified for three NCAA tournaments in the process. Last week, Kelsey accepted a new gig, and it is one that won’t even be taking him out of the Palmetto State. The College of Charleston pounced on Kelse...

WCU Special Collections/Courtesy of Hallie Lackie Western Carolina University’s Special Collections library has digitized a new collection called Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. The collection is made up of interviews with Black residents from Western North Carolina during the late 1980s. All the subjects were over the age of 69. In 1986, Juanita Jones was interviewed by Edward Clark Smith for the project. She remembers growing up in Asheville during the Great De...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The Triangle’s job market is staying resilient through the COVID-19 pandemic, with local hiring activity ramping up in recent weeks. And new data indicates that many more jobs are coming as the number of startups swells accross the region as well as the state. WRAL TechWire’s weekly jobs column keeps readers posted on local job and internship opportunities. Every Monday, we round up the latest information from the region’s top job boards, offering a breakdown of...

By Mark Starling Group Sues State Over Confederate Plates (Raleigh, NC) -- A North Carolina group claims the state discriminated in a decision over the Confederate battle flag. The Department of Motor Vehicles will be offering new plates this year to anyone who has that style flag on their plate, which has caught the attention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The organization announced yesterday it was suing the DOT, claiming the battle flag is a symbol of heritage. More Buncombe, Ashe...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – If you are looking for a high-tech job, your prospects of finding one in the Triangle and North Carolina are improving. So says a new report. National IT organization CompTIA ranked North Carolina No. 4 on its list of the top states for tech job postings. The state recorded 12,726 total postings in February, an increase of 2,949 since January. It also ranked No. 4 among the top states for remote/work-from-home jobs, recording 3,462 listings in February, up by 992 sinc...

By Mark Starling Buncombe Elementary Schools Going To Plan A (Buncombe County, NC) -- Elementary school students can soon stay in the classroom full-time in Buncombe County. The school board voted yesterday to begin a transition to North Carolinas Plan A next month. Kindergarteners through 3rd grade will be able to attend school five-days-a-week starting March 8th. Remaining elementary schoolers can begin full-time on the 15th. Governor Roy Cooper has not yet recommended Plan A for upper...

After the county released a request for proposals, seven firms responded: AECOM, Benchmark, Clarion, Design Workshop, Holland Consulting Planners, Houseal Lavigne and Stewart. A selection committee reviewed all the proposals, interviewed the top three consultant firms, checked references, and recommended Houseal Lavigne of Chicago for the job. The other two were Clarion, based in Chapel Hill and Denver, Colorado, and Stewart, which has offices in Raleigh, Charlotte and Wilmington. Asked last m...

A biker takes a jump at a bike park similar to the one Alvo envisions for Canton. Seth Alvo photo The first trails at Canton’s Chestnut Mountain Park will be ready to ride before the leaves drop this fall thanks to an overwhelmingly successful fundraising effort from Asheville YouTuber Seth Alvo.  Alvo, whose biking-focused YouTube channel Berm Peak has more than 2 million subscribers, had the idea in mind before Canton even announced its intention to open a 448-acre natural park in Haywo...

By Mark Starling Red Zone Counties Dropping In North Carolina (Raleigh, NC) -- COVID-19 numbers are continuing to drop for the better in North Carolina. The Department of Health and Human Services reports there are only 37 counties in the red zone, which is a reduction of more than half from two weeks ago. More than 23-hundred new cases were reported in Mondays numbers, which is well below recent averages. The positivity rate is down to around six-percent. Man Dies In Shootout With McDowe...