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It appears that the sour economy has not hurt the sweet business of a Concord gelato company.

The languid days of summer are ending, and the aromas of melting ice cream and chlorine are being replaced with freshly sharpened pencils and school bus diesel fumes.

Harrisburg wants to remain what it is: a small town in the shadow of Charlotte, with no pretense of big-city life.

The North Carolina Research Campus developer is building a “biorepository” in Kannapolis to hold more than 10million specimens for several groups, including researchers studying long-term health issues in the city.

It's that time of the year again: Store shelves are stacked with notebooks, binders, glue sticks, pencils and, of course, the latest fall fashions.

Have you heard of the “butterfly effect”?

It appears that the sour economy has not hurt the sweet business of a Concord gelato company.

Area schools are encouraging parents to use an online alternative to paying for school meals.

Over the past five years or so, school nurses in Cabarrus County have seen one or two cases of whooping cough per year, mostly in middle-schoolers.

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