If you’re a Facebook user in North Carolina, there’s a chance you were one of the 2.5 million users impacted by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

For more than four decades, I’ve been exploring the North Carolina mountains, and the options for outdoor enthusiasts are pretty exhaustive. Linville’s caverns, gorge and falls make for a great weekend getaway.

Auto Remarketing editor Joe Overby attends lots of conferences and offers these eight must-have items on his packing list:

You’ve made the decision to hire a marketing agency. How do you know which agency to select? I spent more than 20 years on the client side as an in-house marketing director/VP and hired many marketing agencies.

Choosing locally grown food gives me the warm fuzzies, knowing that I’m helping local farmers and voting with my dollars. This shows I respect my body and community by paying an extra buck.

The fourth annual NC Beer Mile, May 24 at Bond Brothers Beer Company in Cary, should be the biggest, with 450 participants – serious runners to costume-clad partygoers.

Saluda is a mountain oasis in Western North Carolina near the South Carolina border. Thousands of visitors are expected on May 19 for the 15th annual Saluda Arts Festival, showcasing fine arts and crafts from more than 82 visual and performing artists from North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina.

A Charlotte fintech startup is among 19 companies – out of an applicant pool of nearly 1,800 from more than 50 countries – to be accepted into the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator.

Asheville is known for its beautiful landscape, rich history, amazing food, local breweries, and its local and innovative musicians. National Geographic listed the top 10 music cities in the U.S. in its May 2018 Traveler edition. Coming in at number nine, Asheville was described as “America’s greatest undiscovered musical city.”

Robert Babington was reading his newspaper in Gastonia in 1909, when he came across a disturbing article about a young crippled child who was refused admission to an orphanage because he was handicapped. Robert then realized that North Carolina had no hospital for handicapped children.

In honor of National Wine Day on May 25, consider visiting one of the North Carolina Wine Trails in May or June.

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