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Cody Stickler was smoking all Friday night long at Five Flags Speedway. Among clouds billowing from his No. 46 machine throughout the second night of the...

In a garden that grows upon a ribbon of old family farmland in the mountains of Ashe County, dreams are harvested alongside vegetables. The garden is a vision nurtured by Dr. Amanda Stroud, a member of the ECU School of Dental Medicine’s inaugural Class of 2015 and dental director for AppHealthCare in northwestern North Carolina. Even during her dental school days, Stroud had a clear image in her mind’s eye of a dental office that would provide oral health care — and so much more — for its community. Stroud wanted to address the food insecurity she witnessed in some of her...