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

Celebrating the Soldiers’ Return

The soldiers of the North Carolina National Guard 1451st Transportation Company returned to the High Country last weekend after spending more than one year in Iraq, and family, friends and well wishers gathered en masse at the Watauga High School gym on Sunday for a jubilant welcome-home ceremony. (Full Story)

What’s a Kid To Do?

Lots of Summer Enrichment Choices--

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Download or view complete sections of each week's High Country Press, complete with graphic layout and advertisements!

New Equipment Coming to the Boone Tot Lot

Bill To Divide 24th Judicial District Faces Local Opposition

Project Graduation Fundraiser Collects More Than $24,000

EPA Administrator Johnson Visits ASU

Avery Commissioners Hold Monthly Meeting

Proposed Rock Quarry in Avery County
Meets Public Resistance

Local Women Turn Motherhood Into a Business

Gas Prices Rise Again,
Conflicting Reports For Prices This Summer

Avery Middle School Students Create Trees of the Future

Watauga Public Library Presents New Life Mobility Assistance Dogs May 15

Daniel Boone Gardens Special Plant Sale May 19

VFW Ladies Auxiliary To Hold
Special Recruiting Drive May 19

Avery County Cooperative Extension Receives 2007 Search for Excellence Award

High Country Conservancy Seeks Donations to Protect Scenic Area in Valle Crucis

Avery County Cooperative Extension Wants You to Move It and Lose It

White Oak Vaulters Host Mountain Spring Fest May 26

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Community News

Community Features

Preliminary Drawings Completed for Appalachian Enterprise Center

Plans Moving Forward for Creating Incubator Space

Farmers’ Market Weekly Update

Second Annual Short Course for Private Landowners Begins June 1

Start Your Own Business Workshop Series Begins May 29

International Migratory Bird Day Saturday

Go To the Birds!
Local Audubon Chapter Forming Now

Gallery News

Business Spotlight of the Week

Scott’s Pizza Place—Pizza Made With Love in Avery County

Valle Country Fair Grant Applications Deadline June 15

Workshops at Carlton Gallery for Artists and Aspiring Artists Begin in June

ARDI Leadership Summit June 11

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Events & Entertainment

Kidstock Returns to
Watauga High School May 19

For the second consecutive year, the Western Youth Network and the Parent-to-Parent Family Support Network will join forces in presenting Kidstock V. On Saturday, May 19, the groups will take over the campus ofWatauga High School for a day of music, games,
activities and all-out fun for kids and parents of all ages. (Full Story)

Mountain Pathways and Green Valley Park Host Mountain Valleyfest

Between the incredible music lineup, the canoe and kayak trips, the fire trucks, the children’s activities and the raffle, it’s going to be hard for folks to decide just what to do at the inaugural Mountain Valleyfest.
(Full Story)

Taste Wines to Benefit the Arts May 18

Relay for Life Team Fundraisers 2007

Open Up with the Senior Games’ Sports and Arts May 19 to June 10

Avery YMCA Presents Princess Date Night May 19

Lunch and Learn for Mountain Photography Competition May 16

Health and Fun for the Young Festival June 2

Grandfather Mountain Naturalist Weekend May 18 to 20

SeepeopleS Merges Power Pop, Psychedelia and Politics

Inaugural Asheville Music Jamboree Brings Music to Western N.C. June 1 to 3

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