DECEMBER 22, 2011 ISSUE
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Boone Drug Downtown regulars, locals and visitors will say goodbye to the fountain portion of the store as it closes down on January 1 to become the home of F.A.R.M. Café, a restaurant that will allow…
Thanks to a group of charitable, energetic kids from Valle Crucis, 42 boys and girls at a South African orphanage will have brand new shoes this Christmas.
The project is the latest…
Foreclosure filings in N.C. have quadrupled over the past decade but dropped 25 percent this year through November. What sounds encouraging may not be. Bank and real estate experts attribute…
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- Watauga Revaluation Is Two Years Away—Recent Revals in Avery, Ashe Saw Property Values Rise
- Bethel’s Darcy Grimes Named Northwest Region Teacher of the Year
- Daymark To Close Recovery Education Centers in Watauga, Wilkes
- From Liability to Potential Asset: The Landfill Gas to Energy Project
- Watauga County’s Debt Falls Nearly 7 Percent
- Contract for Final Leg of U.S. 321 Widening Awarded to Asheville Company—Closures Allowed Mid-Day Tuesdays and Thursdays, Nights on Mondays, Wednesdays
- ASU Authorizes App Cultural Museum Disposition
- Lees-McRae Cyclist Killed in Crash—Tragedy Marks College’s Second Cyclist Death This Year
- Appalachian Mountain Photo Competition Finalists Announced
- Grant Will Rehabilitate Boone Fork Trail
- Public History Project Chronicles Life at Moses Cone Estate
- Business Briefs
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Unlike Times Square, the High Country won’t have the New Year’s Eve Ball, a 12,000-pound geodesic sphere with 32,000 LED lights, hover over the High Country during the final countdown, but local residents…
The weekend after New Year’s is typically slow, and each year Beech Mountain Resort fills the void with Winterfest, a two-day festival featuring the Bathing Beauty Competition, the Great Cardboard…
The seventh annual Fire on the Rock will begin January 24 and 25, 2012, at Crippen’s Country Inn & Restaurant in Blowing Rock. The 2012 competition, however, will for the first time be one of four battles in the…
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- Banff Film Festival Tickets Now on Sale
- A4: Appalachian Adventure Achievement Award Seeks Nominees—Nomination Deadline January 31
- Wine To Water Expands Selection
- N.C. Snowshoe Championships at Beech January 7
- Turchin Center Announces Winter Workshops
- Checking It Twice—Holiday Events in the High Country
- Brewer's Briefs
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- Winter Workshop for Kids Thursday to January 3
- Breakfast, Fireside Stories with Mrs. Claus Friday
- Sparkling Celebration Benefits Avery Arts December 28
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