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Small towns across the state with historic main streets are flourishing as entrepreneurs open doors to new businesses and manufacturers expand their operations. Local governments work to keep [...]

The area has been transforming for several decades, all while keeping its rural heritage in its new ventures.

Entrepreneurs, officials and educators revive the eastern region with visionary businesses and public-private initiatives.

The rivalries and rows that have shaped the state.

Native sons instill art and entrepreneurship in, Farmville, a Pitt County town built on tobacco.

Pitt County partnerships are cultivating homegrown economic success.

In the life-sciences arena, researchers are constantly working on high-tech solutions to complex problems that can run the gamut from addiction medicine to gene therapy that treats heretofore [...]

Education, industry, and the public and private sectors are collaborating to grow Pitt County, where urban and rural residents feel their successes.

Wanda Yuhas, executive director, Pitt County Development Commission, was named the North Carolina Economic Development Association’s Economic Developer of the Year in June.