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Vecinos celebrates 20th anniversary

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Owen Marsten, Intern - thefranklinpressnews@gmail.com

Vecinos is a nonprofit health agency that provides free health care to uninsured people, with a focus on farmworkers and the

Few changes in legislative maps

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Local representatives will remain with mostly intact districts after the North Carolina General Assembly passed new district maps into law recently.

State budget includes Medicaid funding

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Along with Medicaid expansion and teacher pay raises, a Town of Franklin fire substation, funding for a chiller unit and a regional indoor firearms training facility are some of the projects that g

Legislators override six vetoes

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After a month and a half, the N.C. General Assembly reconvened the week of Aug. 14 not for a budget vote, but for veto override and to consider a new election bill.