Serving Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and other towns of the North Carolina High Country
Founded 05-05-05
May 10, 2007 issue
Top Stories
Celebrating the Soldiers’ Return
The soldiers of the North Carolina National Guard 1451st Transportation Company returned to theHigh 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)
Watauga Commissioners Work on County Budget
The Watauga County Board of Commissioners met in a special work session Wednesday night and again on Thursday to hammer out the details of the county’s 2007-08 fiscal year budget.
People
- Project Graduation Fundraiser Collects More Than $24,000
- EPA Administrator Johnson Visits ASU
- Avery Commissioners Hold Monthly Meeting
- Local Women Turn Motherhood Into a Business
- Avery Middle School Students Create Trees of the Future
- VFW Ladies Auxiliary To Hold Special Recruiting Drive May 19
- Boone Board of Adjustment Denies Templeton Permit
- Watauga Public Library Presents New Life Mobility Assistance Dogs May 15
Places
- Daniel Boone Gardens Special Plant Sale May 19
- New Equipment Coming to the Boone Tot Lot
- Gas Prices Rise Again, Conflicting Reports For Prices This Summer
- Proposed Rock Quarry in Avery County Meets Public Resistance
- Seventy-Six Trombones Parade into Watauga High School May 17 to 19
- White Oak Vaulters Host Mountain Spring Fest May 26
- ARDI Leadership Summit June 11
- Valle Country Fair Grant Applications Deadline June 15
- New River Zoo in Fleetwood Reopens