The High Country Real Estate Market of Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, and Watauga Counties saw sales down 27.8% compared to this same time a year ago. Inventory climbed 3.0% during November compared to ...

Hopefully, 2024 ended on a bright note for you and your holidays were enjoyable. It has been difficult, of course, to find the right balance between celebrating a season of merriment while still ...

Major Daniel Duckworth has been appointed Interim Police Chief of the Town of Boone Police Department by Town Manager Amy Davis, effective January 1, 2025. Over the past 16 years, Major Duckworth ...

Aug. 23, 2012. A look at urban farming opens the Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University for fall 2012. Novella Carpenter, author of “Farm City,” will ...

In response to the devestating impact of Helene on so many regional artists, Trillium Arts recently launched a new project, Helene Emergency Artists Residencies (HEAR) for artists residing in ...

March 8, 2012. UPDATE: Kirsten Mitchell, chef at Cameo 19 Hundred in Wilmington and formerly at Morel’s in Banner Elk, has made Food & Wine magazine’s list of top professional chefs.

July 6, 2012. Billy Jones, an 18-year coaching veteran who has spent the last 14 seasons as a coach at four of college baseball’s most elite programs, has been named head baseball coach at ...

May 7, 2012. More than 30 low-income Boone-area families will receive weekly allotments of sustainably grown, local food under an innovative new cost-share program launched by High Country ...

The Amish have long been known and respected for their workmanship, and many of us have seen them in their element while visiting Ohio’s Holmes County and the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area.

The Village Foundation of Blowing Rock is proud to announce its newly selected leadership for the year 2025. The organization, dedicated to preserving cultural heritage and improving the quality ...

Now in its 30 th year of helping teachers provide creative learning projects for students, Blue Ridge Energy is awarding $8,380 in Bright Ideas grants to eleven local Watauga classrooms.

Having never grown up with too much live “cultural” access in the ‘60s and ‘70s, I was not so familiar with holiday stage productions beyond school and church Christmas programs.