After learning that I had breast cancer, I was sure the skies would part and a light would shine down from heaven revealing the true meaning of life.

With a Dominion North Carolina Power rate increase of about 9 percent under consideration by the state, weatherization can pay big dividends.

Apples are in season in North Carolina, and grabbing the cinnamon and sugar is a natural reflex. Apple pie comes to mind, but try them as stuffing for pork.

The last time this sort of energy emerged was from Summer of 2001 through the Summer of 2002 – what sort of challenges were you undergoing then?

Moving next to an undeveloped lot carries some risks, but who would have thought 10 years ago that Lowe’s would be moving onto the Outer Banks?

Amy Huggins answers some questions that have come up about her Outer Banks Epicurean. And, of course, she includes a couple of recipes.

Rental owners could generate a lot of goodwill and a lot less trash by signing on to a dirt cheap recycling program. Management companies can make it happen.
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Don’t confuse the talk about “Get Pinked” with being tickled pink. There’s a world of difference. Sandy Semans offers the first of 12 personal stories.

Jean Wiley offers the astro forecast for fall, which she says will be a time of changes on the micro and macro levels in finance, business and family.

Think what it would be like to have to live with every piece you generated. Maybe that could help us all think about “remaking the way we make things.”

Invite your friends to a dinner of homemade sausage and cheese ravioli with walnut pesto, tomato essence and sage butter sauce. And put them to work.

We need an indoor location for crowds of a thousand or so. But my hope is they find another building and look at different uses for Windmill Point.