JUNE 25, 2009 ISSUE
Top News of the Week
The DBDA’s Demise?—Town To Consider New Proposals for Municipal Service District Tax Dollars
The Town of Boone’s recent decision to restrict the expenses of the Downtown Boone Development Association (DBDA)—an action that could result in the end of the organization—will set the downtown area back 20 years, said John Cooper, owner of the Mast General Store and a Watauga County commissioner. Cooper helped found the DBDA in the 1990s.
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Farmers’ Market, SAHA, ASU in Tug-of-War Over Parking
As the Watauga County Farmers’ Market continues to grow in numbers of vendors and customers, parking at the Horn in the West parking lot in Boone has become an increasing problem.
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Feature Photo: Parade of Hope
An estimated 2,000 team members, volunteers, survivors and participants of all ages descended on the Watauga High School campus last Friday and Saturday to celebrate, remember and fight back at the 15th annual Watauga County Relay For Life.
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More Top News
- Feature Photo: Local Farmer in Valle Crucis
- Solving Our Energy Crisis Without Destroying North Carolina Jobs
- Third Year of Rolling Academy a Great Success
- Appalachian Installs Wind Turbine on Campus—Project Funded in part by Students
- Constituents Voice Budget Concerns to Senator Goss at District Forum
- ASU Board of Trustees Talk Property—Approves Purchases, Easement, Demolition at Regular Meeting
- Collins, Sywassink Elected as Chair, Vice Chair of ASU Board of Trustees—Deal, Beasley and Blackburn End Terms
- Stimulus Funds at Work in the High Country: Summer Job Brings Hope to Homeless Youth
- Early Bird Tickets On Sale for Playhouse Family Music Festival
- Thriving with Cancer—The Cancer Resource Alliance spurs fresh spirit and health in people dealing with cancer. But the lousy economy has put its programs in jeopardy.
- Appalachian Receives $94,000 From N.C. Space Grant
- Federal Training Grant Helps Local Business Increase Sales by $2 Million
The View
An Appalachian Summer Festival Turns 25
Beginning this Saturday, the ASU campus will be abuzz nearly every day until the end of July with the vast and exciting array of live music, dance, film, theater, comedy and visual arts that comprise the 25th season of An Appalachian Summer Festival.
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More View Stories
- Needlepoint Trunk Show Begins Friday, July 3—Designer With Cushions in Westminster Abbey To Attend
- Lees-McRae Summer Theatre Presents The Secret Garden July 3 to 16
- Some Like It Hot!—Old Hampton Store Hosts 26th Annual Cornbread Cook-Off Saturday
- Suite Surrender Runs at Hayes Center July 3 to 12
- Earth Fare Presents Rock Out for Hunger Thursday
- Tickets on Sale for 2nd Annual High Country Beer Fest—Event Slated For September 5 at Broyhill Inn
- Summer Sundays at the Horn Begin July 5
- Fine Arts and Crafts Show July 4 and 5 at The Great Train Robbery—Arts & Crafts Award Show at Great Train Robbery This Weekend
- Sheriff Hagaman Offers Tips for Safe Fourth of July Weekend
- Gallery News
- Strictly Clean & Decent, Harris Brothers Play Mountain Home Music Saturday
- Jack in the Park Tales Start June 25
- Christmas in the Mountains Volume 3 CD Helps End Childhood Hunger in the High Country
- Local Yoga Teachers Seek Solace in Times of Stress
- Ashe Arts Council Events in July
- Feature Photo: Methodist Minstrels
- Independence Day Celebrations
- Not Dreadfully Awful Music—Peewee Moore & The Awful Dreadful Snakes Return to Boone Saloon Saturday
- This Week in Free Music
- Brewer's Briefs
Shelter Stories
High Country Workforce Board Launches RecoveryInTheHighCountry.com
What if there were one source where you could access local job-search information? Find resources to help you get a business idea off the ground? Locate information about training programs—from short courses to complete university degrees that you can earn online? Find help to keep your home out of foreclosure? Understand what federal stimulus funds mean to your household?
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More Shelter Stories
- Green Building Made Easy—High Country Home Builders Host Expo on Going Green June 27
- 54th Annual Farm City Awards Celebration Seeks Nominations
- Efforts Continue To Protect Ashe County’s Pond Mountain
- Feature Photo: Blowing Rock School’s Robotics Competition Team Captures Second Place
- Farmers' Market Weekly Update
- Mountain Living
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