Hickory, NC News & Views | Hickory Hound | August 10, 2025
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📝 SEO Summary:
This week’s News and Views underscores the difference between platforms that broadcast and intelligence systems that endure. We examine the CommScope CCS sale to Amphenol—a $10.5 billion deal that could bring renewal, hold steady, or erode Catawba County’s industrial base. The outcome will depend on strategic local engagement in the next 18 months.
🔍 Key Topics Covered:
• The Hickory Hound’s role as an enduring intelligence system
• Decline masked by civic boosterism
• CommScope’s $10.5B sale of CCS to Amphenol
• Best, base, and worst case scenarios for Catawba County
• AI, broadband, and cloud infrastructure demand
• Strategic stakes for Claremont’s manufacturing facility
• The role of local leadership in shaping industrial futures
• Launch of The Foothills Corridor serial on The Hound’s Signal
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