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N.C. Forest Service exhibit to offer new programs during the 2024 N.C. State Fair

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The number of days left before the opening of the 2024 N.C. State Fair are in the single digits and this year is sure to offer traditional favorites blended with several new attractions. Whether you’re a foodie planning to stuff your face with enough “home grown happiness” to go around, a thrill seeker on the … Read more

Smokey Bear celebrates 80th trip around the sun

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At roughly the halfway point from when allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy to embark on the liberation of Western Europe (June 6) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s successful reelection bid that made him the only U.S. President to serve a fourth term (Nov. 7), another iconic household name took shape in 1944. Smokey Bear … Read more