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After roughly three decades of research, the newly opened Tobacco Trust Fund Christmas Tree Seed Center of Excellence in Ashe County will clean, process and distribute improved Fraser Fir seeds. According to Center Director Tracy Taylor, it was important to produce trees that grow faster, have the shape growers want, and hold their needles for longer.
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University chancellors have spent the past year pleading for state legislators to provide funding for their enrollment growth. One campus won't receive any at all. -
Brown Investment Properties and Simpson Commercial Real Estate plan to build the center by Southeast Guilford High School along future Interstate 685. -
A developer looking to build a controversial hyperscale data center in Stokes County has resubmitted a rezoning application for the project. -
Alamance County Commissioners have agreed to allocate an additional $7.3 million to the local public school system for capital projects. The move comes after the district initiated a budget dispute last month.
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