MARCH 11, 2010 ISSUE
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Top News of the Week
Say goodbye to your vehicle’s wheel alignment, it’s pothole season. No, you can’t escape. Just try traveling unscathed down any local thoroughfare this week and you’ll find you and your vehicle bumping and thumping along, as if cobblestone streets were still the norm…
The Boone Tourism Development Authority (TDA) recently voted to terminate its contract with the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce to administer the town’s occupancy tax dollars set aside for tourism promotion…
Although to some, a birthday is a reminder that years are passing and they are aging, the American Cancer Society views each birthday as a victory…
Latest Headlines
- Women’s History Month Spotlight: Congressional Medal for World War II Granite Falls Woman Pilot
- Governor Perdue Packs the House—Crowd Welcomes Governor to Watauga County
- New Watauga High School Slightly Ahead of Schedule
- ASU Basketball Coach Peterson’s First Season Back Ends Without SoCon Title
- Blowing Rock Allows Golf Carts on Roads Near Club
- School on Snow Days—Parents Find Way To Educate Kids When School Cancels
- Introducing the Appalachian Rollergirls—ASU Sophomore Starts Local Roller Derby Team
- Hunting for Edwards’ Replacement as ASU Quarterback
- Helping Others Benefits All: Live United Volunteer Spotlight—Alice Salthouse
- March is Red Cross Month
- High Country Heart Breakfast March 12
- Ryan Klinger receives 2010 Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award
- 9th Annual Empty Bowls Project at Watauga High School March 27
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The View
The High Country experienced its first hints of spring this week, and that’s your cue to sign your kids up for this year’s summer camps. Registration has already begun for many camps, and they fill up fast…
Chefs from Rowland’s at Westglow Spa and Twenty One & Main will battle it out on Tuesday, March 16, and chefs from Bistro Roca and Grandfather Golf and Country Club will compete on Monday, March 22 as the 5th annual Fire on the Rock Chef Challenge continues…
The View Headlines
- Art Classes Available at ASU’s Turchin Center This Spring
- Lees-McRae Presents Urinetown March 19 to 23
- Jazz Society Features Vocalist Wendy Hayes Sunday
- CNN Security Analyst Peter Bergen Speaks at ASU March 23
- Annual Spelling Bee for Grown-Ups at Broyhill Inn March 23
- Lecture on “Climate Policy: Pre- and Post-Copenhagen” at ASU March 17
- Banff Film Festival Returns to Boone March 26 and 27
- Lift Ticket
- Lulo Plays 641rpm This Friday—First Show in Boone for Ahleuchatistas Side Project
- Hayes School of Music This Week
- Funk Mixes with Celtic for St. Patrick’s Day Show at Boone Saloon—Bafoodus, Forget-Me-Nots Share Bill March 17
- Brewer's Briefs
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Shelter
This Saturday, March 13, all aspiring and practicing area gardeners and family farmers are invited to Family Central, the former Ashe Central High School in Jefferson, to the High Country Seed Swap and Growers School…
Almost 200 area real estate professionals gathered at the Broyhill Inn in Boone on February 25 in a general membership meeting of the High Country Association of Realtors…





















