JULY 30, 2009 ISSUE
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Demolition for the Highway 421 widening project began Monday, July 27, and this old apartment complex was one of the first buildings to go. As of press time, four buildings have been demolished, with another 20 to 30 slated for leveling in the upcoming weeks...
Significant budget cuts in response to North Carolina’s state budget deficit of $4.6 billion have brought about a changed picture for the upcoming school year.
In part one of our ongoing series on the state of healthcare in the High Country, “Volunteer Healthcare Providers Saving Lives and Needing Assistance,” we reported that the Community Care Clinic—a volunteer healthcare provider organization that treats people without insurance...
Latest Headlines
- N.C. Sales Tax Holiday August 7 to 9—Clothing, School Supplies and Computers Exempt from Sales Tax
- N.C. Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of Town in Templeton Case
- Unemployment Rates Decrease in Five High Country Counties in June
- Stimulus Funds at Work in the High Country—Teen Mom Gains Work Skills and National Credential
- SAF Intern Gives Presentation on Summer Experience
- Homelessness—An Increasing Issue in the High Country
- Going, Going, Gone? Can We Save the Hemlocks From the Wooly Adelgid?—Series 4, Part 3: Do Something! Empowering the Individual to Save the Hemlocks
- Sign Up Now for Fall Sports
- Marvin Hamlisch Performs as Fundraiser for Temple of the High Country—World-Famous Tenor J. Mark McVey Also Scheduled to Appear
- Project GATE: A Self-Employment Option for Laid-Off Workers
- New Mountain Bike Race Course at Hawksnest Resort
- ASU Football Single-Game Tickets On Sale August 5—Season Tickets, ECU Tickets Still Available
- More Than 25,000 People Attend App Summer Events
- Paws & Claws Resale Shop Closed Temporarily for Remodeling
- WYN Employee Pledges to Run More Than 100 Miles to Raise Funds—Former Marine Plans to Run 20 Miles Barefoot
- Tailwind Track Club Athletes Qualify for 2009 AAU Junior Olympics
- Needlepoint Trunk Show Continues through August 31—Designer With Cushions in Westminster Abbey Offers Stitching Pointers to Public
The View
High Country Local Food enthusiasts High Country Locavore, Slow Food of Boone and Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture are co-hosting a screening of the recently released film Food, Inc. at the Dragonfly Theater and Pub, located at 215 Boone Heights Drive in Boone, this Sunday, August 2, from 5:30 to 10:00 p.m. Tickets cost $10.
More than a dozen top-notch musical acts will descend on northern Ashe County when the 4th annual Ola Belle Reed Homecoming Festival returns to the American Legion Memorial Ball Field and the Old Lansing School in Lansing.
The View Headlines
- 3rd Annual Playhouse Family Music Fest Slated for August 7 and 8—Festival Features Live Music, Dancing, a Parade and more
- 50th Annual N.C. Mineral & Gem Festival July 30 to August 2
- Rosin Up Your Bow—Fiddlers’ Conventions Are Here!
- Thriller Angel Street at Hayes Center August 7 to 16
- Take A Beech Vacation!—Beech Mountain Announces Free Summer Events For August
- Heritage Day at Moses Cone Manor August 8
- Walker Brother Circus in Boone August 7
- Riverwalk Arts Festival in Newland August 15
- St. Mary’s Choir To Perform in Valle Crucis Sunday
- Watercolor Workshop with Anne Abgott at Art Cellar August 17
- Rosemary Clooney Tribute at Lees-McRae August 11
- 28th Annual Crafts On The Green at Beech Mountain Saturday
- Local Playwright Presents The Songs of Robert August 12—Performance Is Benefit for Student Scholarships
- Haunted at Horn’s Powderhorn Theatre August 4
- Annual Doc Watson Concert in Todd August 22—Proceeds Benefit the James "Crow" Parsons Memorial Fund
- This Week in Free Music
- Brewer's Briefs
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Shelter
On Saturday, August 15, the 54th annual Farm City Celebration will take place on the grounds of Blair Farm, located on Deerfield Road across from the Boone Golf Course. The theme for the 2009 celebration is “Growing Youth, Growing Agriculture” to honor the 100th anniversary of the 4-H Clubs of North Carolina.
Eight months ago, Fran Boyette had just moved to Boone from Florida. She and her husband came to the area because he received a job with Samaritan’s Purse.
Shelter Headlines
- The Great Plant Sale August 1 and 2—Gardening Workshops Saturdays in August
- Daniel Boone Days 2009 Now Zero-Waste—2nd Annual Music & Culture Festival in Boone Goes Green
- Re-Powering Our Region: Building Profit By Being Green Forum in Lenoir August 7
- High Country Farm Tour August 8 and 9—Good for Families, Farmers, Communities and the Environment
- everGREEN Tips—Building Design #2: Conflicts in GREEN Goals
- Farmers' Market Weekly Update
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