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One Fret Over, winners of the Got to Be NC Festival bluegrass competition 2019. Source: Got to Be NC Festival
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One Fret Over Takes First Place in the Got to Be NC Festival Carolina Bluegrass Battle

May 21, 2019 Guest Author or Contributor

One Fret Over, a band made up of siblings Gabe and Grace Bemus from Salisbury, North Carolina, and Elijah and Lincoln Moore from Kernersville, NC, won the Got to Be NC Festival’s bluegrass competition, earning […]

2018 Best of Show winner Polly Kopka of Hubert NC, Photo: DeRosset Gordon
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Winners Announced for NC’s Art & The Bloom Floral Design Exhibition

January 16, 2018 Guest Author or Contributor

The Four-day Art & The Bloom Exhibition Concluded Sunday in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina Leading floral designers in North Carolina gathered in Wrightsville Beach to showcase their floral creations inspired by fine art. Judged by […]

2017 Wilson Idol Winners Alayla Jenkins and Elijah Whitley with Dr. Mildred Summerville. Source: Wilson Idol
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Winners of the 2017 Wilson Idol

September 27, 2017 Guest Author or Contributor

Dr. Mildred Summerville is excited to announce the 2017 Wilson Idol Winners.  The fifth-annual Wilson Idol was an evening of performance that honors a person who is greatly venerated in his or her community and […]

"One Eye," a portrait of a young American alligator by Frank Ellison of Clemmons, took top honors in the agency's Wildlife in North Carolina photo competition.
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Wildlife in North Carolina Magazine Announces Photo Competition Winners

January 13, 2017 Kay Whatley

By Jodie B. Owen, ncwildlife.org A stunning close-up of a partially submerged alligator in a Brunswick County pond took top honors in the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission’s 12th Annual Wildlife in North Carolina magazine photo […]

Latest News, Events & Features

  • County Lines: A Literary Journal "call for submissions" is open and continues through August 2022. Source: Kim Beall
    County Lines: A Literary Journal: Deadline for Submissions is Aug. 15
    August 3, 2022
  • City of Rocky Mount logo
    Rocky Mount, NC Senior Center on Church Street to serve as cooling location
    July 21, 2022
  • The Grey Area News' UFO with North Carolina outline
    UFO Observer Reports Sighting with Photographs to Rockingham County, NC Authorities
    July 21, 2022
  • Source: The Max G. Creech Selma Historical Museum, Selma, North Carolina.
    Selma, NC: Max G. Creech Selma Historical Museum Announces 2022 Juneteenth Program
    June 14, 2022
  • Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina logo
    Wake Forest, NC: Freedom Walk to highlight Saturday’s Juneteenth Celebration
    June 14, 2022
  • Musician Freddy Greene. Source: FCAC
    Louisburg, NC: Tickets on Sale for “Diversity in the Arts” Event on Jun. 25
    June 10, 2022
  • Five Points Crossing Groundbreaking June 9, 2022, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Source: City of Rocky Mount
    Rocky Mount, NC: Construction Begins at Five Points Crossing Affordable Housing Community
    June 10, 2022
  • County Lines: A Literary Journal "call for submissions" is open and continues through August 2022. Source: Kim Beall
    Call for submissions: County Lines Literary Journal 2023
    May 20, 2022
  • Strawberries Spring 2022. Photo: Kay Whatley
    “JoCo Grows” Agriculture Initiatives Continue Through 2022 Strawberry Season
    May 17, 2022
  • Cats and Dogs. Credit: Frank and Kay Whatley, Nadia Ethier
    NC Public Animal Shelter Annual Report 2021 Released: Public Cat and Dog Euthanasia Numbers
    May 17, 2022
  • "Chicken" is one of many films to be presented during the Franklin Flicks/NCISAFF dates in May and June 2022
    North Carolina South & East Asian Hollywood Film Festival to be held on May 21
    May 6, 2022
  • Writing time during the Spring Writers' Retreat 2022 at Rolling View State Park. Photo: Donna Campbell Smith
    FCAC Writers’ Retreat Provided Advice, Writing Time in Beautiful Park
    May 5, 2022
  • April Zilg, NC/USA, 2021 and 2022 Carolina Cup Graveyard Race Champion. Source: Robert B Butler
    Coveted Carolina Cup titles won by Booth of Australia and USA’s Zilg
    May 5, 2022
  • Smithfield Ham and Yam Festival, prior year photo. Source: Downtown Smithfield Development Corp.
    Smithfield, NC: Ham & Yam Festival Set for May 7
    May 2, 2022
  • Arbor Day Festival 2022, Raleigh, NC. Source: We Plant It Forward
    We Plant it Forward Celebrates US 150th Arbor Day with Festival at Dorothea Dix Park on Apr. 24
    April 20, 2022
  • Photo from FCAC Writers Retreat. Source: Jackie Dove-Miller
    Register Now for Writers Spring Retreat in Durham, NC on Apr. 23
    April 13, 2022
  • Red wolf puppy. Photo: Ryan Nordsven/USFWS
    Release of Highly Endangered Red Wolves into Wild Gives Hope to Renewed Conservation
    April 13, 2022
  • Sandra Bryant Richardson of Open-Minded Developmental Services, Inc.
    Open Minded Developmental Services, Inc. Is Celebrating 21 Years of Excellence in Home Care Services
    April 8, 2022
  • NC News. Photos: Frank and Kay Whatley
    NC Poultry Shows and Public Sales Suspended until Further Notice Due to High Path Avian Influenza
    April 5, 2022
  • Crowds at the 2021 "301 Endless Yard Sale" shop along a row of vendor booths. Source: Ashby Brame, Johnston County NC
    Selma, NC & Beyond: The 301 Endless Yard Sale Reaches Year 10
    March 14, 2022
  • Kings of Southern Soul Concert poster. Source: MBT Marketing Solutions & Associates
    Rocky Mount, NC: Kings of Southern Soul Concert Set for Apr. 30
    March 7, 2022
  • Carolina Prize contest deadline is March 15, 2022. Source: Kim Beall, FCAC Writers Guild
    Deadline Approaching for Carolina Prize for Writing Contest: Enter by Mar. 15
    March 3, 2022
  • NC Governor Roy Cooper touring PoleVolt in Charlotte. Source: NC Office of the Governor sm
    North Carolina Transition to Clean Transportation Highlighted by EV Charging Station Tour
    February 25, 2022
  • 2022 Snuck 'N' Pluck event notice. Source: Cory Cavallero, Greenville Jaycees 
    Greenville, NC: Shuck ‘N’ Pluck Fundraiser for Soup Kitchen to be Held Mar. 12
    February 24, 2022
  • Author Rose Cushing, "Fortunate Tides" book cover
    Middlesex, NC Author’s First Novel Released
    February 24, 2022
  • Degradation and movement of the wooden beams over time are causing the barn to slide slowly off it’s stone foundation. Source: Melody L. Worthington, Tobacco Farm Life Museum
    Kenly, NC: Tobacco Farm Life Museum’s Historic Tobacco Barn At Risk
    February 24, 2022
  • One of the labels released with the USDA FSIS recall for Morgan Foods, Feb 2022.
    Skyline Chili Products Recall: Can Contents May Be Soup, Not Chili
    February 16, 2022
  • Coastal cities like Miami, shown, already experience high-tide flooding. But a new federal interagency report projects an uptick in the frequency and intensity of such events in the coming decades because of rising seas. Credit: B137 (CC-BY)
    Sea Level to Rise up to a Foot by 2050, US Interagency Report Finds
    February 15, 2022

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Wiseman's View overlook in daylight. Source: Omi Salavea, CreepGeeks Podcast
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UFOs: New Documentary Series Spotlights Legendary North Carolina Brown Mountain Lights

June 22, 2020

While the Brown Mountain Lights have managed to elude spectators, researchers, scientists and curious-minded tourists for almost a century, the phenomena has yet again sparked the interest of a larger audience. This time, the ghost […]

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The Strange-ness: Researcher Believes Human Thought Changes Water

September 26, 2014

Masaru Emoto is a Japanese author who claims to have proven that human consciousness may change the structure of water at the molecular level. In his research, which is controversial, Emoto has used water from a variety of water sources, exposed […]

Eastern Hercules Beetle. Photo by Nadia Ethier greyareanews.com
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The Strange-Ness: Eastern Hercules Beetle

July 19, 2015

By Kay Whatley, Editor A few weeks ago, my youngest and I came across a strange sight: a beetle on the school sidewalk which measured more than two inches long. It looked more like an […]

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