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LINVILLE — Throughout the history of Avery County, there has been a handful of influential individuals who have left behind legacies that will benefit generations to come. Among these people

UNC Health Names N.C. Neurosciences Tower in Honor of Gary Park With the retirement of a longtime president of its centerpiece hospital system, UNC Health has announced plans to rename one of its Chapel Hill towers in his honor. The health system shared it is renaming the tower at the N.C. Neurosciences Hospital after Gary Park, who retired from UNC Health on Sunday. UNC Health cited Park’s leadership and advocation for the improved delivery and quality of care during his 20 years of work for the system, 15 of which he served as president of UNC Hospitals. “The Gary L. Park Tower at N.C....

OXFORD — Former Granville County employee Ernestine Howard has been awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, an honor reserved for those demonstrating “exemplary” service to North Carolina and

Sam Taylor Sam Taylor, a key figure in North Carolina’s ascension to global life sciences leadership as a founder and long-time president of the sector’s trade association, NCBIO, has died at the age of 64 of pancreatic cancer. Taylor, who died Sunday, Feb. 21, was instrumental in the founding of the NC Biosciences Organization, now NCBIO, in 1994 and had served as its president since 2006. As president, he advocated for NCBIO and its members before the North Carolina General Assembly, state executive agencies and North Carolina’s delegation to Congress.  He was honored this month by ...

Neighbors in Durbin Crossing said that for about five years they were trying to get something done about parents parking their cars in the neighborhood during school pickup at Creekside High to avoid a long line.