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FCAC Writers' Guild will hold a Retreat & meeting at Falls Lake, Shelter 23. Photo: Donna Campbell Smith

Franklin County, NC: Next FCAC Writers’ Guild Public Retreat is Jun. 30

June 20, 2021 Kay Whatley

The Franklin County Arts Council (FCAC) Writers’ Guild will host Fifth Wednesday Writing Retreats on the fifth Wednesday of each month that has a fifth Wednesday in it. These Writers’ Guild events are open to all […]

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It Might be Bigfoot

June 1, 2021

By Donna Campbell Smith I believe in the existence of bigfoot. My interest is rooted in stories Daddy told when I was a young person. He listened to ‘talk radio” at night and he’d relate […]

The Strange-ness: NIST Team Breaks Distance Record for Quantum Teleportation

September 25, 2015

By Laura Ost, NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have “teleported” or transferred quantum information carried in light particles over 100 kilometers (km) of optical fiber, four times farther than […]

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The Strange-ness: Fish Kill Reported at Masonboro Island

February 1, 2013

State environmental officials reported on January 11, 2013, hundreds of thousands of dead Atlantic Menhaden fish at Masonboro Island in Wilmington NC. The dead fish are along the Masonboro Island beaches and in the water, stretching over a […]