AUGUST 13, 2009 ISSUE
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Top News of the Week
Wednesday, August 12, marked the last first day of school for Watauga High School (WHS) students in the current location. The new high school, which is located at Daniel Boone Drive Extension in Boone, is slated to open in time for the first day of school next year.
The newly passed austere North Carolina budget has local governments, school boards, mental health providers and state funded programs scrambling to ascertain its financial impact.
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
- Boone Chamber Celebrates 60 Years With Annual Luncheon
- 54th Annual Farm City Celebration August 15 Beginning at 2:00
- Watauga Commissioners Approve School Board Budget Change—Move Could Save Eight Teaching Positions
- Watauga County Schools Students Post Strong Results on State Tests
- English as a Second Language Begins August 17—Inglés Como Segundo Idioma Empieza el 17 de Agosto
- MountainKeepers Film Series Presents “The End of Suburbia” August 20
- Blowing Rock Council Extends Outdoor Dining Hours
- A Community Celebration That Won’t Break the Bank—2nd Annual Daniel Boone Days Music & Culture Festival September 4 and 5
- Wee Care Benefit for Child Protective Services August 19
- Avery YO! Afterschool Parent Registration Thursday
The View
National legend and Deep Gap resident Doc Watson has been a good neighbor to the folks in Todd the past several years, performing an annual concert to support the nonprofit Todd Community Preservation Organization since 2003.
In what Rolling Stone magazine describes as “exhilarating! A rare achievement in musical theatre!,” Hank Williams: Lost Highway is a tender paean to the brash pioneering country star Hank Williams, who stands among the greatest innovators of American popular music.
The View Headlines
- Ola Belle Reed Homecoming Festival Friday to Sunday
- Plein Air Paint Out in Banner Elk August 22
- The Banner Elk Greenway
- Cheese House Gallery Presents ‘Along the Avery Quilt Trail’
- MASTer Crafter Fair August 15 in Valle Crucis
- Elk Creek Valley Day in Triplett Saturday
- Art in the Park in Blowing Rock Saturday—Concert in the Park on Sunday
- Bella Abzug To Appear At Cahill Book Signing Friday
- Horn Closing Weekend August 13 to 15—Ticket Discounts Available to Local Residents
- Chicago City Limits: MySpace or Yours August 23
- Banner Elk Fine Arts & Master Craft Festival August 22 and 23
- Sunset Stroll on Sunset Drive in Blowing Rock Friday
- Ashe County Little Theatre Presents A Walk Through Egypt August 20 through 23
- Henson Chapel Gospel Jubilee August 22
- Hamlisch Fundraiser Sells Out—Another Chance to Support Synagogue September 13 to 16
- Concert on the Lawn at Jones House Friday—Lisa Baldwin and Dave Haney, Buck and Nelson Perform This Week
- Wolf Creek Performs in Banner Elk’s Concert in The Park Thursday
- New River Blues Festival Returns to High Country September 6
- Brewer's Briefs
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Shelter
Last month, Watauga County Habitat for Humanity unveiled a new permanent structure at the entrance to the Watauga County Landfill that will serve as a reclamation center for goods that can be recycled rather than thrown away.
Forty years ago, the Jenkins family—parents and three young girls—permanently moved from Miami, Fla. to a vacation home in the High Country.
Shelter Headlines
- Let’s Whip Michigan Again! No, Not With Our Football Skills This Time—With Our Farmers’ Market
- Smoking Ban Creates Unintended Consequences—Koncepts Co-Owner Travels To Raleigh To Try and Save Business
- ASU Professor Helps Document Child Labor Worldwide
- Federal Grant Will Help Watauga Opportunities Grow Its Medical Manufacturing Operation
- Mark Linnville Receives John & Ruth Blue Scholarship
- Farmers' Market Weekly Update
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