This event is to benefit the Special Olympics of North Carolina. The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

If you are like me and have a young family you can appreciate how much effort goes into packing the family into the car for an excursion that will likely keep them out well past the  kids usual bed time. The Fourth of July is one …

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Are you looking to sell your home now or in the future? Most people ask me where to start or should I sell? Those are very good and important questions if you’re thinking of putting your home on the market. …

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This is a follow to an earlier posting in March that Strategic Behavioral Services Plan to open a 90+ Bed in patient youth facility in Garner North Carolina a suburb close to downtown Raleigh.  GARNER, N.C. — Garner town leaders on …

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Prizes: Participants with completed game cards 6. will be entered for two chances to win a $500 shopping spree for use at any Shop Local
Raleigh member businesses!

In a slow housing market, a competitive edge can be  the difference between a house that sells fast and a house that languishes on the market doomed to the fate of numerous failed price reductions is presentation. Home Staging might …

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