According to research from FEMA, 72 percent of firefighters in North Carolina are volunteer firefighters. Unfortunately, the number of volunteers is declining by 11 to 12 percent year over year. The NCAFC has targeted Wake country for a two-year-long volunteer firefighter recruitment campaign.
Canning Culture
Breweries throughout the city rely on unique, eye-catching can designs to attract customers and tempt them into buying their beer over others. Trophy, Crank Arm Brewing Company and Burial Beer Co. all have professional artists, designers or illustrators that create their beer can designs for them.
Bring Down the Boards!
City leaders, our elected officials, need to be meeting with business owners and landlords and encouraging them—convincing them— to take down the plywood boards.
5 OUTSIDE – DECEMBER PICKS
Chatham Beverage DistrictPITTSBOROIf you’re in a festive mood, a trip to Chatham Beverage District just makes sense. Almost like a …
NEW MOVES
Two local hospitality entrepreneurs are figuring out what it takes to pivot during a pandemic.
Signature Style: Wear What You Want
Roxanne Lundy is one of the co-founders of the nonprofit Raleigh Pride, dedicated to celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.
The City’s New Leader
Marchell Adams-David will replace Ruffin Hall as Raleigh’s first woman and African American city manager.
ROADMAP FOR ROMANCE
If you’re looking to sleigh your holiday with a date night out—whether to replace those standard soirees or just to escape your house—we’ve got you covered with some safe and socially distant sexy ambiance, unforgettable nips and sips, and, of course, romance.
DROPPED ACORNS
It’s been a hell of a year, Raleigh. Fires, floods and pestilence across the globe had it looking like the end of times, not to mention peaceful racial justice protests and subsequent rioting, and a #MeToo reckoning, that took place right here at home.
SHIFTING FOCUS
Hamilton debuted a book entitled “Trash the Trophies: How to Win Without Losing Your Soul.” “The book is about personal and professional transformative leadership,” Hamilton says