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Report: Appalachian State named top employer of veterans in US
As we honor veterans this week, Forbes Magazine has named Appalachian State University as the number one company or group in the US employer of veterans. A school report said App State currently has 118 employees with prior military service while more than 1,500 military-affiliated students are enrolled in Boone, including spouses, military dependents, and almost 300 soldiers or workers who came back to campus.
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Data center plan OK'd, hailed as 'great document'
Mount Airy’s data center ordinance is now gospel, having been approved unanimously after months of consideration — with one city official saying the issue was a done deal in another way. “The biggest thing I’ve learned through this process is we don’t have the option to say ‘no,’’’ Mayor Jon Cawley said of an outright ban on the controversial facilities locating here. “That is not an available option unless you want to go into litigation,” Cawley added regarding the fact data centers are legal enterprises. The only thing a locality can do is adopt regulations ensuring the facilities operate in ways that don’t hamper its quality of life, city officials said, which the Mount Airy Board of Commissioners hopes was accomplished with its decision Thursday night. If it failed to enact a data center ordinance, Commissioner Calvin Vaughn said then, one could have come into town under existing regulations, “which are more lax.” Vaughn and other board members say the new ordinance protects Mount Airy in regard to various data center implications such as allowable locations and water usage. “I think it’s a great document,” he said of the ordinance spanning 13 pages, “something other municipalities can use as a