SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 ISSUE
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The same day the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced it was on the brink of default, several dozen people packed into the small lobby of the downtown Boone post office Tuesday…
Last week, High Country Press asked people in the High Country to answer the following questions about the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States…
Boone has three active, licensed taxi operations, and all three cab companies—Boone Taxi, All Weather Taxi and Tipsy Taxi—have one vehicle each. With so few cabs amidst a burgeoning downtown nightlife…
Grandfather National Scenic Area Series
Latest Headlines
- ASU To Use Old WHS Parking Lot, Softball Field
- Tea Party 5th District Rally September 17
- WCTDA Posts Highest Tax Revenues Since Inception
- A Decade of Preparing—Communication, Training, Awareness Increased in Years Since 9/11, Officials Say
- 9/11 Commemorative Events
- OASIS Crisis Line Training September 23 to 25—Deadline To Apply Is September 16
- Mountain Living
- Grandfather Mountain State Park Office Opens September 18—Public Invited To Celebrate
- Run the Gauntlet in Todd September 24
- National Champ Leads Cyclocross Clinics in Boone Sunday
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Farm Heritage Day harks back to the days when county fairs used to frequent the High Country, and, in particular, the Cove Creek School decades ago.
“The folks at Cove Creek and [those] on the board of…
The art of quilt making, one of the most intricate of traditional art forms associated with rural mountain families, will be on full display Friday and Saturday, September 16 and 17…
The first home game of the ASU football season is this Saturday, September 10, when the Mountaineers compete against the N.C. A&T University Aggies for the first time since 1995…
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Happening Now
- Watauga River Cleanup Saturday—Volunteers Still Needed
- Dance for Animals at Fur Ball September 17
- Time Jumpers Perform at Farthing September 16—Concert Opens ASU Performing Arts Series
- Forget-Me-Nots, Mountain Laurels Play Jones House Friday
- Moose Lodge Poker Run for Hospice This Saturday
- School Groups Free at Ft. Hamby Pow Wow September 16
- Run for the Red Marathon September 17
- Taylor 2, Plastic Musik, Guy Penrod at Hayes Center in September
- Grandfather Mountain Hosts Kidfest Saturday
- ‘Ain’t Patrick’s Day’ Party at Murphy’s September 17
- Hayes School of Music This Week
Happening Now
- RSVP for Power of Purse Luncheon by Friday
- Sunset Stroll in Blowing Rock Friday
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Grandfather National Scenic Area Series
Have you noticed how the counties below the High Country are suddenly “our gateways?”
Caldwell County is “Where the High Country Begins.” Morganton, in Burke County, home to the largest sawmills…
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…
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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
- Week 5—Lumber’s Numbers
- 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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