I was thinking about businesses that have been doing well during the recession: payday loan joints, gold buyers, tattoo parlors, consultancies, accounting firms, law firms, government, second-hand shops, coffee shops, acrylic nail salons, survival gear vendors, work-from-home jobs, . . . I forgot one: paper mills.

State officials honored Grandfather Mountain Tuesday for being the first North Carolina attraction to become certified through the state’s new NC GreenTravel Initiative.

Meanwhile, Cherokee Central Schools has so much money, its leadership wants the system to become accredited.

P.S. In case you didn’t notice, it really helps something or other to run two capitalized words together.