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Sandy Feat, a Raleigh-based fixture at MerleFest, again produced sand art sculpture with a festival-theme on the main road ...
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission announced the approved season dates, bag limits and applicable regulations for the 2025-26 waterfowl, webless migratory game bird (including doves) and extended ...
The Knotville Fire Department will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an event at the fire station on N.C. 268 East from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
A woman driving a Nissan pickup received life-threatening injuries when the vehicle wrecked on Boone Trail in Purlear about 7 ...
The 85th anniversary of Blue Ridge Mountain Post 1142 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will be observed with an event featuring live music, arts and crafts booths and fireworks ...
The North Wilkesboro commissioners took action allowing construction to begin for a new pool and other long-discussed major improvements to Smoot Park in a special called meeting Monday night.
With especially large turnouts Friday and Saturday nights, MerleFest 2025 may have produced one of the four-day event’s ...
With especially large turnouts Friday and Saturday nights, MerleFest 2025 may have produced one of the four-day event’s ...
Six members of the Wilkes County 4-H Horse Club entered the West District Qualifying 4-H Horse Show on April 26 at the Western North Carolina Agriculture Center in Fletcher.
Additional contestants in the Little Miss Princess Pageant include, from left, Bailey Richardson, daughter of Miranda and ...
The Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina recently published the seventh edition of its “Down the Road: Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Guide.” ...
Gertrude Carlton Parsons of the Boomer community, who turned 100 recently, learned about living independently in the late ...