JULY 9, 2009 ISSUE
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Top News of the Week
From covered wagons pulled by horse team, emergency vehicles and pristine antique autos, to makeshift floats, dance teams and residents clad in patriotic garb, main streets in Boone and Banner Elk were lined with spectators and packed with parading revelers during last Saturday's 4th of July festivities.
No matter your political or religious persuasion, your income level, profession or age, one issue impacts everyone sooner or later, healthcare.
Candidate filing for the 2009 municipal elections began Monday, July 6, and continues through noon on Friday, July 17, in Watauga and Avery counties.
Latest Headlines
- Mason Negotiates Possible Compromise with DBDA—DBDA Continues Operations on Reserve Funds
- A Prescription for Patient-Centered Healthcare
- Library Seeking Mementos of Equal Rights Amendment’s Long History
- Going, Going, Gone? Can We Save the Hemlocks From the Wooly Adelgid?—Series 4, Part 1: Nine Truths of the Battle to Save the Hemlocks
- Cool Tips for Summer Heat: Where to Swim this Season
- Renovated and Extended Ashe Library Reopens
- Boone Bowling Center Hosts Family Fun Friday This Friday
- Turchin Center Family Day Saturday
- St. Mary of the Hills Tour of Homes July 24—Volunteers Still Needed
- Appalachian Women’s Fund Accepting Grant Applications—Application Deadline Is August 1
- App Summer Hosts Patagonia’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
- High Country Book Fair Saturday and Sunday
- Holy Cross Episcopal Church Rummage Sale July 16 to 18; Still Accepting Donations
- Our Aging Nation, Our Aging Region—Study: Rising Aging Population Will Complicate N.C.’s Future State Budget Issues
The View
Bagpipes, kilts, dancing, athletics and sheep herding—the clans will gather and all Scottish traditions will be well represented and thriving at Grandfather Mountain this weekend.
Tickets are still available—but are selling quickly—for the Mountain Palette Gala, a classy affair that annually serves as the Avery County Arts Council’s largest fundraiser.
The View Headlines
- It’s Elvis at Hayes July 20
- 30th Annual High Country Crank-Up Antique Engine Show July 23 to 25
- App Summer Presents Comedienne Paula Poundstone July 17
- Pianist Larry Lapin Plays the Blowing Rock Jazz Society Sunday
- Lees-McRae Alumni Arts and Crafts Show Saturday to July 19
- Dunlap Family Exhibition at The Art Cellar Opens July 20—Artists' Reception July 24
- International Flavor at Banner Elk Master Craft Show July 18 and 19
- Mud on the Mountain Saturday
- Monday Night Concert Series Features Jonathan Maness July 13
- Dancing Bear Ball and Art Auction July 25
- Blowing Rock Stage Presents Hit Musical Bye Bye Birdie July 17 to August 2
- An Appalachian Summer Presents Film Vitus July 13
- An Appalachian Summer Presents Paul Taylor Dance Company July 14
- App Summer Hosts Louisiana’s Buckwheat Zydeco Saturday
- Third Annual High Country Bluegrass Festival July 25—Headliners Include Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, The Grascals
- This Week in Free Music
- Brewer's Briefs
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In October 2008, High Country Press researched affordable green housing in a series of stories called “Rethinking What Affordable Housing Looks Like.
"If your grandma or grandfather needed to come to a place like this," explained Dr. Ray Moltz, "you’d want it to be safe, comfortable, and you'd want to know everyone was friendly, not mean at all…"
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