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RALEIGH — Two High Country residents have won big through the North Carolina Lottery. Joseph Greer of Boone received a big ...
The Gatsby After Dark, The Appalachian Theatre of the High Country’s primary fundraiser, will be held downtown on Friday, Aug. 22 starting at 7:30 p.m.
Rescuers struggled to retrieve bodies from muddy debris on Saturday after flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains ...
The Backstreet Park Concert Series will present Kelly and Ian Snider on Friday, Aug. 22 starting at 5:30 p.m. in Downtown Backstreet Park (2nd Avenue).
Outside Havana, a combine belonging to a private Vietnamese company is harvesting rice, directly farming Cuban land -- in a ...
The Blowing Rock Garden Club has announced its upcoming fundraiser, “Wildflower Bingo,” which is to take place on Thursday, ...
By Stephen Beech Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years earlier than previously thought. Stone tools unearthed in Kenya reveal ...
The fourth annual Antlers & Acorns, the Boone Songwriters Festival, is returning to downtown from Sept. 10-13.
A museum has launched an exhibit on different types of poo in response to primary school pupils’ questions.
After a school year disrupted by Hurricane Helene, Watauga County students and staff are ready for a fresh start when the new ...
The Edgewood Cottage Artist in Residence program continues from Aug. 18–24, featuring mixed media artist Maria Register and ...
Have you thought much about what you say in church? I’m not thinking of what you say to fellow pewholders, or to the minister ...