Halloween 2013 “Booze It & Lose It” Campaign Gets Underway

This post is sponsored by the Governor's Highway Safety Program. BOOZE IT AND LOSE IT RALEIGH – Ghosts, goblins and witches are not the scariest things roaming around this Halloween – drunk drivers are. The Governor’s Highway Safety Program today kicked off its Halloween “Booze It & Lose It” campaign to catch those drivers who create frightening situations on the road by driving drunk. “Halloween is already full of terror without...

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Macon County Planning Board 10-17-2013

The Macon county Planning Board met last night to discuss ten properties that are being considered for sale as surplus, some of them are listed on the county website. The board made two motions during the meeting, the first was to check with the neighboring landowners of a 3.25 acre landlocked parcel on Middle Creek to see if any of them were interested in purchasing it. The second motion was to donate a 0.68 acre parcel next to the Macon...

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Franklin TDA 10-14-2013

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority Board met late yesterday afternoon for their regularly scheduled October meeting, and the video of the full meeting is below, as well as a downloadable copy of the press kit that was sent to members of the media. MEDIA ROLL CALL Macon Media (me) Macon County News and Shopping Guide The Franklin Press PRESS KIT Franklin TDA 10-14-2013 by Thunder Pig ...

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Morning Sun

Good morning. I spent far too long standing in the parking lot taking photos of the sun in the fog. In the end, I had to take a little creative license......

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League of Women Voters Host Mayoral Forum Today

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m248/Thunder-Pig/Macon%20County/2013/TITLECARDCORRect_zps1dde607c.jpg The Macon County League of Women Voters hosted a forum for the candidates who are running for Mayor of the Town of Franklin today at noon. Here is the video of the complete forum. I will be cutting the video up into segments overnight and will post them by question and by candidate tomorrow and Saturday. About fifty people attended...

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Macon County Law Enforcement on the Lookout for Multiple Stolen Vehicles

I recorded the BOLO (Be On the Look Out for) a few minutes ago: (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post by Macon County Public Safety, Road Conditions and Weather Updates. ...

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Franklin Aldermen 10-07-2013 Updated with Video

The Franklin Town Board of Aldermen will be meeting tonight at 7pm. I have posted the public agenda, the press kit (no other local media organization shares this info with the public), and the maps for the re-zoning of Pauline Avenue for your convenience. Town of Franklin Board of Aldermen  Meeting Agenda Monday October 7, 2013 -7:00 p.m.  Call to order -Mayor Collins Approval of the September 3, 2013 Town Board minutes. Public hearing...

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Videos of the Macon County NCAE town hall State of Public Education in North Carolina

Monday night, at 6pm on the campus of Franklin High School, the Macon County chapter of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) hosted the kickoff of a statewide political campaign by a coalition of progressive groups that are speaking out against the education budget that has been passed into law by the Republican-dominated North Carolina General Assembly and signed by the Republican Governor Pat McCrory. The groups involved...

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