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Roadside wildflower displays win awards

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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Wildflower displays along Western North Carolina highways have earned local N.C. Department of Transportation offices statewide recognition. 

A wildflower planting on I-40 where it intersects U.S. 74 in Haywood County — also known as exit 27 — won first place in the contest for best wildflower planting in the western region. 

Division 14 — which covers Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Henderson, Polk and Transylvania counties — won second place in the competition for best overall division wildflower program, coming in second to Division 13, which oversees the next block of counties east. 

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