Relocate with Me to NC
Before relocating to Johnston County, I had never been to North Carolina. Being from Indiana with family in Michigan, nothing prepared me for all the changes I would experience when moving to the…
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Category: Featured
Downtown Benson Businesses Elevate Their Efforts
A new group of community-minded individuals has popped up in Johnston County, this time in Benson. If you’re familiar with Activate Selma, then Elevate Benson will seem familiar in some ways and…
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Weddings in JoCo - Expos & Expectations
Locals and visitors alike seek to make Johnston County their wedding destination. A JoCo wedding can be rustic, unique, elegant, outside in a vineyard, or inside a whimsical historic home. And with…
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Ava Gardner Museum is Still Standing
Ava Gardner Museum is Still Standing, and They Said It Wouldn’t Last! The board members of the Ava Gardner Museum may have heard a thousand times that the fans of Ava Gardner are old, dying off, and…
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Spend Some Time at Sonlight Farms
I sat down recently with April Phillips of Sonlight Farms. Sonlight is a new farm experience for families in Johnston County. April and her husband Josh own and manage a farm in the northern part of…
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JoCo Eclipse Parties and Safety Tips
In Johnston County, NC the peak of the eclipse event will take place at around 2:30PM-2:45PM. This means that around that time on this coming Monday the 21st, about 93% of the sun will be covered by…
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JoCo Summer Concerts
Summer is a great time to plant yourself in a lawn chair or on a bar stool with a cold one in your hand and enjoy some music. Johnston County has great one-off concerts coming up soon, as well as a…
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Ava’s London Comes to Smithfield in New Exhibit
The Ava Gardner Museum in Downtown Smithfield, NC unveiled a new exhibit on the 10th of December last week. The museum has displays that change annually so that visitors to the museum can see new…
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Make a Splash. Cast a Line.
It’s the dog days of summer and in the south that means a lot of lazy front porch sitting with a cold glass of lemonade or sweet tea clutched in your hand like a lifeline. But, it can also mean…
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Scenic Settings and Summer Sounds
Warm summer evenings call for a cold drink and some tunes. Thankfully, there are quite a few places in Johnston County where you can have both. We’ve rounded up musical performances happening around…
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