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<title><![CDATA[Few sales force delay]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Wilkes County commissioners are postponing a revaluation scheduled for 2011 after hearing that real-estate sales have been so sluggish the county doesn't have enough data to make wide-scale appraisals.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wilkes board scales back plans for jail]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Wilkes County commissioners agreed yesterday to move forward with plans for a new 256-bed jail.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Local ]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Election results from the local Nov. 3, 2009 general election.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:18:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Man says he did what he 'should have done']]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Jason Norman was on his way to work when he saw the fire and the smoke billowing from the house. He stopped his car and spoke to a woman who was sitting in the road holding a baby. Her parents were still inside, she told him.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New tool, new hope]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Project Lazarus is preparing to distribute anti-overdose kits to people who are at risk of prescription-drug overdoses.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Wilkes jail up in air  as board debates options]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Wilkes County commissioners can't agree to spend an estimated $26 million to build a 298-bed jail and law-enforcement center, so they are looking at shorter-term, less expensive options to relieve jail overcrowding.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[House fire injures North Wilkesboro couple]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A North Wilkesboro couple were injured yesterday in a fire at their home at 605 Peden St. 

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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:37:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Story about killing shifts: Hammer now says he did not kill his nephew]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Freddie Hammer, who told authorities where to find the body of a missing Ashe County man in August, now says he didn't kill him, according to court documents filed in a civil lawsuit. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Still a Mystery: A year after Wilkes County man disappers with little trace, his mother believes he must be dead]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/oct/23/still-a-mystery-a-year-after-wilkes-county-man-dis/news-regional-wilkes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The day he disappeared, Jeff Combs left three pork chops frying on the stove.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:22:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wilkesboro's most-haunted: Hunting for ghosts will be part of weekend's paranormal gathering]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Tom Dula was hanged in Statesville for the murder of Laura Foster in 1868, but while he awaited trial, he was held for a time in the old Wilkes jail, in a cell adjacent to that of his alleged lover, Anne Foster Melton.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Moonshine Memories: Bootleggers and  revenuers get together on Wilkes County farm to recount their rivalry]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/oct/15/bootleggers-and-revenuers-get-together-on-wilkes-c/news-regional-wilkes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[By the time ATF agent Bob Powell served in Wilkes County in the 1970s, Junior Johnson had long since left moonshine running for NASCAR.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Authorities seize moonshine from home of Wilkesboro man]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement agents seized 929 gallons of moonshine Wednesday stored at the home of a Wilkesboro man, authorities said. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:41:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Man says case error]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A student teacher from Appalachian State University has been charged with taking indecent liberties and engaging in a sexual act with a student at East Wilkes High School, where he had been working, officials said yesterday.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wilkes man dies in crash on N.C. 16]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[ A Wilkes County man was killed in a crash Saturday night on N.C. 16, about 5 ½ miles north of Wilkesboro, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:51:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Showcase: Visitor center is model of environmental thrift]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The Northwest North Carolina Visitor Center and rest area, which will open today beside U.S. 421 northbound, is the state's first green rest area.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brushy Mountain Apple Festival to be held Saturday]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/sep/29/brush-mountain-apple-festival-be-held-saturday/news-regional-wilkes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The Brushy Mountain Apple Festival will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in downtown North Wilkesboro. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:11:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Author Robert Morgan to speak at Wilkes Community College]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Author Robert Morgan will speak at Wilkes Community College from 11 a.m. to noon Monday in the Mayes Pit-Cohn Auditorium. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:30:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tyson brings Holly Farms back]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[After Tyson Foods bought the homegrown Holly Farms in 1989, the Holly Farms labels on the chicken packages got smaller and smaller until the brand name disappeared from store shelves more than 10 years ago.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tyson Foods is bringing back Holly Farms chicken]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Tyson Foods Inc. is bringing Holly Farms chicken back to grocery stores.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:36:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[70 Wachovia jobs in Wilkes to move]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The jobs of about 70 employees at the Wachovia operations center in Wilkesboro will be moving next year as part of changes connected to Wells Fargo's acquisition of the company, officials said.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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