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<title><![CDATA[WSJ News Regional Alleghany]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Democrats win two seats on Alleghany Board of Commissioners]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[In the race for two seats on the Alleghany Board of Commissioners, Democrat Steve Roten and Democrat incumbent Ken Richardson won with 2,752 votes and 2,381, respectively. Republicans Chuck Billings and William Caudill trailed with 2,223 and 1,423. Gleason James, who is unaffiliated, received 827 votes.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:49:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Early voting today extended by 4 hours]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Faced with a state order to hold a meeting or face suspension, members of the Forsyth County Board of Elections voted 2-1 yesterday to extend the hours for early voting to 5 p.m. today.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Missing Alleghany boy, mom found safe]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A motorist on N.C. 18 near the Laurel Springs community found a missing Alleghany County boy and his mother walking along the highway a few minutes before 1 p.m. today, authorities said.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:21:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Missing Alleghany boy may be in danger, authorities say]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Alleghany authorities believe 7-year-old Matthew James Wood is in danger since leaving with his mother early Monday morning from a house in the Whitehead community.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Alleghany opens its ropes course]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Alleghany County has opened the first phase of a ropes course that is intended to serve students, families, corporations and other groups interested in team-building exercises.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Teapot exhibit needs  a splash less room]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Organizers of the Sparta Teapot Museum, who more than a year ago scaled back the project and lost a commitment to exclusively display a collection of teapots, are now planning to sell 4 acres  of the downtown site.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Program to save pastureland helps farmers stay in business]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Wilkes County farmer Claude Shew Jr., who bought his farm with his dad in 1978, has never seen a drought like the one the state is in now.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Severe thunder storm watch in effect for northwestern N.C.]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A severe thunder storm watch is in effect for Forsyth, Davidson, Davie, Stokes, Surry, Alleghany, Wilkes, and Yadkin counties until 8 p.m.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 May 2008 19:14:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Economic index shows decline in Western N.C.]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The economy in Western North Carolina slowed again in March, falling 0.2 percentage points and erasing gains made in January and February.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bond issue gets vocal]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[SPARTA]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Asphalt plant is put on hold]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[SPARTA  An asphalt company that won a legal battle to build a plant in Alleghany County more than a year ago has yet to build anything. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Alleghany Wellness counts on volunteers]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[SPARTA  In a small rural county, residents rely on each other to get things done.  There are few other places where that rings more true than at the Alleghany Wellness Center -- a nonprofit gym with only one full-time employee that offers preventative medicine and rehabilitation to 967 active members. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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