The North Carolina Main Street and Rural Planning Center has selected six cities to receive help to revitalize their downtown areas. Those selected literally span the entire state. Murphy and Manteo made the list says Director Liz Parham . “We’ve just never had any applications for quite that far west or quite that far east until now,” says Parham. These two towns - Murphy at the western tip of the state and Manteo on North Carolina’s eastern edge on the Atlantic Ocean - were chosen along with