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Oakhurst is the Whitehurst family home where Jane and Bill Whitehurst raised their four sons. Built in 1927, the house is located in the Uptown Lexington Historic District and was originally designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style by Winston-Salem architect Joseph T. LeVesque, who was commissioned by Mr. T. V. Kirkman, co-owner of United Furniture, to design the family residence.
Duke Energy, the electric utility that controls nearly all of North Carolina’s power generation, is pushing forward with a natural gas buildout intended to support a deluge of new data centers. The utility checked off a crucial step in that process Monday evening, when the Davidson County Board of...