MARCH 5, 2009 ISSUE
Top News of the Week
Wind Matters—Broyhill Wind Turbine Public Information Held Wednesday
ASU has long been a leader in wind energy through academic offerings and a research site on Beech Mountain. Now, a new project is advancing the university’s focus on the High Country’s renewable energy.
The student-led ASU Renewable Energy Initiative (ASU REI) hosted a Broyhill Wind Turbine Public Information Forum on Wednesday, March 4, in the Helen A. Powers Grand Hall at the Broyhill Inn & Conference Center to present the details of a community-scale 100-kilowatt wind turbine that will be installed on the grounds of the Broyhill Inn & Conference Center this year. Read More »
Relay For Life Hosts 2009 Celebration and Kick Off March 9
If you feel like you can’t go anywhere in town without seeing stickers, t-shirts, buttons and balloons with the Relay For Life logo on them, then local organizers Sharon Trivette and Glenda Hodges are doing their jobs. During the last several years, the dynamic duo has, with the unending support of the community, built Watauga County into one of the most successful Relay For Life chapters in the nation. Read More »
More Top News
- Feature Photo—Snow School!
- Ski Better for Less in March—Best Snow, Cheapest Rates of the Season This Month
- High Country Celebrates Women—Women’s History Month
- Appalachian Women’s Fund and Local Salon Pay It Forward
- ASU Receives $231,427 To Help Kurdistan Universities Develop Curricula
- Parent to Parent Family Support Network – High Country
- 4-H Fruit Plant Sale Orders Due March 30
- Boone’s Latendresse Spends 10 Months Living and Giving With AmeriCorps
- Watauga County Kindergarten Orientation Schedule Announced
- Workforce Development Board Hosts Energy Forum
The View Stories
If You Can Walk, You Can Dance—Ballroom Dancing in the High Country
Carol Pollard was taking lessons at Robin and Andy Lane’s Northwestern Dance Studio, attending the social dance for students on the first Saturday of every month. But the dancers felt that once a month wasn’t enough time to practice the waltzes, foxtrots, swings, rumbas and cha chas they had learned in class.
“I wish we had another opportunity to practice,” group members said to one another one day at the end of the dance. Read More »
More View Stories
- Keep On Growing! Leola Street Community Garden Enters Fourth Year; Plans Workshops
- Downtown Boone Art Crawl Friday
- Tea for Three—Elaine Bromka Brings Lady Bird, Pat and Betty to Hayes Center March 15
- Dr. Elliot Engel To Deliver Wine Lecture at Ashe Arts Center March 12
- Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition Begins at Turchin Center—Public Invited To Vote For Footsloggers People’s Choice Award
- Teaching the Old to the Young—Mountain Music Jam Club Re-emerges at Watauga High
- Do Germs—Not Genes—Cause Diseases?—ASU’s Darwin Series Presents Paul Ewald March 17
- ASU Vocal Quintet Quintessential! Performs Thursday in Blowing Rock
- Blowing Rock Jazz Society Welcomes Steve Davidowski Quartet Sunday
- Clash In The Kitchen—Crippen’s Hosts First Preliminary Fire on the Rock Chef’s Challenge
- Pure Mountain Soul—Lenoir’s Harris Brothers Return to Canyons March 13
- Jazz Pianist Frank Kimbrough at ASU March 16
Shelter Stories
Boone Green Drinks—Connecting the Local Green Economy Twice Every Month
Green is today’s buzzword in business, building, energy and thinking, and everyone is trying to find an avenue to get in on the action. Many people with green ideas, though, struggle to find others who can aid them in their quest, especially if they are not connected with an academic institution.
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More Shelter Stories
- Business Spotlight: Pepper’s Restaurant—New Bar, Apps and Website; Same Great Food, Staff and Hometown Atmosphere
- High Country CSA Offers More Shares, Looks for New Members
- Take the Feinstein Challenge and Help Conquer Hunger in the High Country
- Spring Breakers Unite To Build Homes with Avery Habitat for Humanity
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