Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 12

161 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 12 C L O S E T O C H A R C O N N E C T E D T O E Some things you can measure. Acreage. Workforce statistics. Transportation metrics. The hard data and numbers are important, of course. But so are the intangibles. The things that are felt, not measured. Hometown pride. A lakefront sunrise. Families, friends and neighbors together at the ball �eld, the local theater, the ice cream parlor. Connections are what life is all about. Lincoln County, North Carolina, has them.