Serving Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and other towns of the North Carolina High Country
Founded 05-05-05

January 4, 2007 issue

Year in Review – July 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Watauga Medical Center celebrated its 75th anniversary.

EXPANSION: Construction began on the addition to the Boone ABC store.

CONSERVATION: Ginn Resorts partnered with Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust to place up to 2,750 acres of the 6,000-acre development in a conservation easement.

FREE: AppalCART marked the one year anniversary of fare-free service.

BOOTS: Boone Town Council members met with Jon Tate of Lot Management Solutions to discuss the effect of new signage requirements on parking violations.

KICKOFF: The High Country Soccer Association kicked off its fundraising campaign for a new soccer complex at the Brookshire Road property owned by Watauga County and announced that the complex will be named for Ted Mackorell, the former owner of Makoto’s who died in 2005.

KICKOFF: High Country United Way announced its 2006-07 campaign fundraising goal of $500,000, an inaugural raffle giving Fair Share givers the opportunity to win a new car and a Power of the Purse campaign focused on women and children.

ASU: “Ladybird Farthing,” the duck who nested right outside Farthing Auditorium throughout June, hatched her eggs, increasing the ASU population by five.

LEAVINGS: Banner Elk Town Manager Bill Cook resigned, and Town Clerk Linda Smith retired.

DENIED: Leonard and Lennie Cottom lost their Superior Court appeal of the Seven Devils’ decision to deny them a special use permit to expand Hawksnest ski resort.

OPENINGS: Country Inn & Suites Hotel opened across from New Market Center.

ART: Ben Long and his associates continue work on the fresco at the Crossnore School chapel.

GRANTS: Western Youth Network received $72,400 for its mentoring program from the Sisters of Mercy Foundation.

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