State’s economic jump-starts fail to spark WNC growth
Monday, November 28th, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
Region struggles with layoffs as money for incentive programs goes elsewhere by Angie Newsome, STAFF WRITER
ASHEVILLE — Annie Jones spends most of her time these days at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, drilling holes into chunks of metal.
The work takes skill. Jones and her nine classmates will spend their 13-week fast track machinists’ training course studying trigonometry and perfecting precision drills on hulking machinery. (more…)
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