Gov. Roy Cooper said on Oct. 15 that North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority (RIA) approved 16 grant requests to local governments totaling $4,511,075, including commitments to create 530 jobs.
With the closing of multiple locations and curfews happening across the country, and experts predicting that the negative effects of the COVID-19 epidemic could last longer than expected, more places are seeing their doors closed every day to help stop the COVID-19 spread.