More than 100,000 residents in western North Carolina are now allowed to drink and bathe with water from their home faucets.

When something hasn’t happened in more than a century, you can understand why it’s not top of mind for some folks. And then when it happens, you wonder why you didn’t see it coming. When Hurricane Helene dropped a couple of feet of water on the North Carolina mountains over a day or

It was the regionality and subject matter but also the steel underneath the quiet tale that called it to mind when I spoke to Jennifer Greene, the Executive Director of the North Carolina Christmas Tree Association recently,