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Students on the Unicoi County 4-H GPS team are leading customers to the doors of local businesses — literally. The GPS team is working on creating a map of businesses in the area to highlight some community favorites and help encourage those visiting the region to patronize the locations. “You can Google things to do in Unicoi County, but we thought just to have a little bit more of a community tie as well, maybe we can have a map that can highlight a lot of favorites in the county,” said Chris Mackey, Unicoi County’s University of Tennessee extension director.

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Hendersonville Times-News Recent diversion efforts by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services have caused shortages for some vaccine providers across the state. Pardee UNC Health Care announced Wednesday that the vaccine allocation for the upcoming week that was originally anticipated will not be received. As a result, first dose vaccine appointments scheduled for the week of Feb. 1 will be rescheduled, according to a news release from Pardee. All second dose appointments will be kept. NCDHHS has recently shifted a large portion of doses toward large-scale vaccination event...

By Sarah Tate Jan 25, 2021 Following North Carolina's recent mass vaccination event at Charlotte Motor Speedway last weekend, the state has announced it will redistribute its supply of coronavirus vaccine to future mass events. As a result, thousands of appointments across the state are being canceled. The total number of appointments that have been canceled is not known, but the Charlotte Observer reported that Cone Health, in Greensboro, will cancel 10,400 first-dose appointments this week; second-dose appointments won't be affected. With that large number of cancellations coming from ju...

Busy signals and overstrained call centers can be commonplace when so many people seek the Covid-19 vaccine. With even more people becoming eligible on the horizon, New Hanover County hopes to expand its options. (Port City Daily/Courtesy of New Hanover County) SOUTHEASTERN NC — Over the past week, North Carolina is reporting Covid-19 cases at 718,812 and 8,695 deaths, with a 10.5% daily positive rate among those being tested. Though the overall numbers continue to rise, the seven-day average for new cases dropped from 8,711 on Jan. 11 to 6,199 on Jan. 18. The death average over seven days...