February 28, 2008 issue
Top News Stories
- January 2008 Boone Occupancy Tax Numbers Best Ever
- Leap Year Twin Will Celebrate Sixth-or24th- Birthday This Year
- Leaping Around the Pesky Problem of Time in a Year
- Senator Elizabeth Dole Visits Sugar Mountain Resort
- Daniel Soucek Files To Run Against Tarleton For State House
- Democrats Announce Locations for Precinct Meetings
- Seventh Annual Empty Bowls Supper March 15
- Blowing Rock Easter Egg Hunt and Festival March 8
- Day of Dance Draws a Crowd of 300 For Health Awareness
- Horn in the West Hires New Artistic Director: A Boone Native
- Letterland Characters Appearing Around Town To Teach Phonics to Kids
The View Stories
- March Events at the Hayes Center
- Award-Winning Scholar and Writer Nell Irvin Painter at ASU March 3
- Bluegrass Greats Illrd Tyme Out Perform at Valdese Old Rock School Saturday
- Historian of Gender and Race at Farthing Monday Evening
- Women's Leadership Produces More Enduring Change
- Parkway Craft Center To Open March 15
- Battle of the Bands at Legends March 5
- Tickets on Sale Now for Banff Mountain Film Festival
- Art Crawl Offers Distraction from Winter March 7
- Scottish Music Legend Returns to West Jefferson April 11
- School Bus Driver Classes Offered at Green Valley School March 4 to 6
- Hip-Hop For Kids with a Grown-Up Sound
- G. Love & Special Sauce Bring Hip-Hop Blues to Boone March 4
- The Undisputed Kings of Dirty-Tonk: The Trainwreks Play Murphy's March 7
Shelter Stories
- James Coman Wins Governor's Award for Conservationist of the Year
- Business Spotlight: At Your Wits End Vacation Rentals
- Tarleton Announces Rural Center Grants for Boone and Ashe Family Central
- Green Awards - State Employee's Credit Union Offers Discounts for Green Vehicles
- Mountain Keeping: Going Green Helps the Economy
- ASU Begins After-School Program for Home-schooled, Minority Students
- MAPP Classes Starting Soon for Bridges Foster Care
- More Ways to Reuse Old Tires
- Community Supported Agriculture Shares Available
- Curious About Antarctica?
- Boone Pride To Offer First Scholarship
- Act! Speak! Build! - Habitat for Humanity's Week of Advocacy
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Year in Review—Shelter Business Spotlight
Story by Sam Calhoun
The High Country—or any community for that matter—is defined by its local business people. Whether born and raised here or from out of town, these entrepreneurial spirits believe in the area so much that they have decided to meld, share and align their business passions with the everyday goings-on of the region. (All Spotlights in 2007)
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