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Southern Living ranks the best new barbecue joints, named restaurant in Asheville

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Southern Living ranks the best new barbecue joints, named restaurant in Asheville

ASHEVILLE – Eastern North Carolina has long been lauded for its barbecue, and this summer, a barbecue restaurant in Western North Carolina is proving that smoky, delicious options can be found in the Blue Ridge Mountains. On August 22, Southern Living magazine released its list of the best new barbecue joints in the South. Contributing […]

Too popular for its own good? NC National Park struggles with partially contradictory goals • NC Newsline

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Too popular for its own good? NC National Park struggles with partially contradictory goals • NC Newsline

Perhaps more than any other national park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is faced with goals that may well be contradictory: protecting and preserving the park’s natural environment on the one hand, and ensuring public use of the park on the other. In 1916, the Organic Act established the National Park Service with, among other […]