AUGUST 25, 2011 ISSUE
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ASU administrators confirmed Wednesday that the university plans to close the Broyhill Inn and Appalachian Conference Center and convert its hotel rooms to student housing.
The move…
High Country residents reported vibrating houses, shaking appliances and furniture and rattling windows just before 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake occurred near Mineral, Va…
Less than one year after ASU announced it would form a committee to study whether ASU should move to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, formerly I-A), that committee has answered in the affirmative…
Grandfather National Scenic Area Series
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- Feature Photo: Classes in Session
- Bar Owners Get Reprieve from Noise Violations
- Eagles Nest Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Occupancy Tax Revenues Indicate Tourism Up in 2010
- Watauga County Graduation Rates Rises 20 Percent in Three Years
- Could Ruling in Forsyth County Impact Local Commissioners Prayers?
- Downtown Boone Post Office Public Input Meeting September 6—Community Surveys Due September 1
- Twin Theatre’s Fate Remains Uncertain—Possibilities include Church, Community Theatre and Investment Property
- Wine To Water: New Book, New Wines, Same Quest
- Women’s Equality Day and ERA—The Unfinished Business
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The View
After Asheville was named Beer City USA in a national online poll for the past three years, another North Carolina town is making a brewing statement of its own—Boone…
The 10th annual High Country Praise Festival is scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 4, at ASU’s Holmes Center between the hours of 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. Admission to the event…
On Saturday, September 3, Boone-based The Drawlstrings and Austin-based Whiskey Shivers will perform at Galileo’s Bar and Café from 10:00 p.m. until around 2:00 a.m. The show costs…
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Happening Now
- Kite Festival Takes Flight Labor Day Weekend
- I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Hayes Center September 2 to 4
- High Country Fairgrounds Hosts Boone Bike Rally September 2 and 3
- Whip Daddies Perform in Banner Elk September 1
- Avery Tour de Art Saturday
- New River Blues Festival No. 9 September 4
- Blues Masters The King Bees Release New Album Carolina Bound
- Boone Ultimate Alliance Registering Now for Fall League—Registration Deadline Is September 5
- Hayes Center Announces Changes for Rest of 2011 Season
- Mountain Home Music Presents Bluegrass Review Saturday
- Qualifiers for Mountain Bike Gravity, Dual Slalom Nationals Saturday and Sunday
- Dashboard Hula Boys and Rick Ward Play Jones House Friday
- Brewer's Briefs
Happening Now
- Music on the Mountaintop Ascent Series Thursday
- Gillian Welch at Farthing Friday
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Grandfather National Scenic Area Series
The proposed Grandfather National Scenic Area occupies a particularly distinctive corner of the High Country—the northwest corner of Caldwell County.
Though Caldwell’s tourism revenue pales…
During the 1980s Boone area clearcutting controversy, opponents of Forest Service timber plans said “logging and its visual impact will increase…during the rest of the century.” But the Forest Service changed its plans…
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Links To Other National Scenic Areas
- Map: Proposed Grandfather National Scenic Area
- Week 1—Grandfather National Scenic Area: An Introduction
- Week 1—National Scenic Areas: Protecting the View
- Week 2—National Scenic Areas Near and Far—A Path for the High Country?
- Week 3—National Forests: For ‘The Greatest Good’
- Week 3—Tracing Timber’s History in the Globe
- Week 4—Weeks Act Celebrated From the Perch of the Blue Ridge Parkway
- Week 4—‘The Lucky Triangle’ Resurrected: The Grandfather National Scenic Area
- Photo Gallery: The Globe Area and Its Lumber History
- Video: GNSA Campaign Video
- Link: GNSA Campaign Site
Links To Other National Scenic Areas
- Roanoke Times: Mount Pleasant NSA
- Friends of Mount Roger
- Columbia River Gorge Visitors Association
- VIDEO: Columbia River Gorge NSA
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