Get a pair of tickets to the Catawba Valley Music Festival on April 13-14 in Cherryville.

Call 1-800-245-8870 (pre-pay only) and with a contribution of $100 you will get a pair of these weekend passes.

Get a pair of tickets to the Red, White and Bluegrass Festival in Morganton on June 30-July 4.

Support WNCW with $130 and get your tickets.  Call 1-800-245-8870 (pre-pay only).

**Only 2 pair left** Call 1-800-245-8870 to contribute support to WNCW and get a pair of tickets to see Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on March 14.

(Pre-pay only) - Tickets $130

Pair these tickets with Wynton Marsalis The Music of America double CD set for a pledge of $200.

The American job market is still a long way from healthy, but its pulse feels a lot stronger now that it did six months ago. The Labor Department says employers added 227,000 workers to their payrolls in February, a solid — if not spectacular — performance. It continues a trend that suggests a genuine recovery, not a temporary blip.

The unemployment rate held steady at 8.3 percent, even as nearly 500,000 people joined the workforce.

Improvement in the job market is a boon for President Obama as he tries to hold onto his own job in November.

The famous pack mules that carry supplies and people in and out of the Grand Canyon have back pain, as you might imagine. One man is on a mission to make the lives of these beasts of burden a little less painful.

When Rene Noriega retired a few years ago after a long career as a Border Patrol agent, he took what — for him — was the next natural step.

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• $60: Goin' Across the Mountain t-shirt
• $75: Goin' Across the Mountain t-shirt
• $60: Del McCoury Old Memories: Songs of Bill Monroe
• $60: Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out Prime Tyme
• $60: Mountain Faith Save Me (all gospel)

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Support WNCW with a contribution of $100 and get a pair of tickets to see Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium on March 20th.

Call 1-800-245-8870 (pre-pay only).

Today, The Huffington Post released what it says is a never-before-seen video of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Famously, Harold Camping, the founder of Family Radio, blanketed the country last year with warnings on bilboards and pamphlets that the world would end on May 21.