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Sundance Institute has named its new CEO, it was announced Wednesday.

The last major residential development in downtown New Bern was SkySail in 2008. Is it time for more?

Celebrating Independence Day and Americas heroes Dale Janway While we’ve spent a great deal talking about our Independence Day celebration this week, we also need to be mindful of the bigger picture related to the holiday. When we built this great nation, we came together to create something amazing.  In the years that followed, we have come together to protect and preserve that incredible creation when we need to. The local World War II residents we have worked with as we put together this ...

/PRNewswire/ -- Female-focused entrepreneur accelerator platform and podcast Potential to Powerhouse is proud to announce its first-annual Ignite the...

Marin Management, Inc., a California-based hotel management company, announced today that Kimberly Ali has joined the company as vice president of business development. A longtime real estate hospitality veteran, Ali comes to Marin Management from Empire USA, LLC, where she served as asset manager of hospitality for the companys hotel division.

Birdsong | Relocating Trident | Searching for the Guardian ‘Our local blackbird sings a striking song imitating ambulance sirens.’ Photograph: Matt_Gibson/Getty Images/iStockphoto ‘Our local blackbird sings a striking song imitating ambulance sirens.’ Photograph: Matt_Gibson/Getty Images/iStockphoto Letters Wed 28 Apr 2021 12.16 EDT Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 12.46 EDT Mary Montague (Country Diary, 26 April) beautifully describes a great tit nestling learning to sing in a quieter ...

— Kyra Steck Well, it’s been another week of weather. Pleasant and spring-like one day, then back to winter the next. I have seen people in shorts already, then back to wearing down jackets. It’s a good thing we New Englanders like to talk about the weather. It certainly seems to be an endless topic for discussion. Forsythia is starting to bloom all over town, in wildly bursting tangles or in more sedate, neatly pruned bushes. The early star magnolia in front of the Olsen house is making ...

Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy Former Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm is the nation’s new Secretary of Energy. The Senate approved her nomination on Feb. 25 by a vote of 64-35, with all Democrats and 14 Republican senators voting yes. (Pat Mitchell Media) After her confirmation, Granholm tweeted her thanks to senators saying: “I’m obsessed with creating good-paying clean energy jobs in all corners of America in service of addressing our climate crisis. I’m impatient for...

Advertising This Monday (March 8) marks a very different kind of International Women’s Day. In a normal year, venues all over the world would be hosting all manner of events remembering those who’ve fought for women’s rights – and raising awareness about all the work that still needs to be done to combat gender inequality. So, how can you actually celebrate IWD in 2021? Well, there’s still a whole host of cool events taking place – it’s just that most of them are now online r...

Table for 12, Please: Linda Thomas-Greenfield In this Table for 12 series, I’m focusing on the 12 women and women of color in Biden’s cabinet, the most ever.  This week: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. When President Biden announced Linda Thomas-Greenfield as his pick for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, he lauded her as a “seasoned and distinguished diplomat with 35 […] The Thrive Global Community welcomes voices from many spheres on our open ...