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Road widening starts in Blowing Rock
Work has started on the widening of U.S. 321 through Blowing Rock, a project both dreaded and anticipated for decades, with crews cutting trees and clearing roadsides this week.
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Mountain area will benefit from prescribed burns
The Grandfather Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service, an area that includes 330,360 acres southeast of the Blue Ridge Parkway between Blowing Rock and Black Mountain, will receive $605,000 for a forest restoration project.
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Food bank expands program
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina will begin two programs that deliver food to hungry families in more personal ways, including the expansion of a pilot program that delivers 65 pounds of food, per person, at drive-by distribution points such as high schools.
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Local and state news in brief
Woman shot after man tried to get her into car
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Salesman arrested for sex and drug tactics
Police said a door-to-door magazine salesman had a criminal sales pitch, pressuring a woman to either submit to drug use and sex or buy a magazine subscription.
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Strong winds, light snow possible in mountain counties today
Strong winds and light snow are possible in the mountain counties of Northwest North Carolina today, the National Weather Service said this morning.
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Golden LEAF board member's firm works on projects funded by board's grants
A firm owned by a member of the board that oversees the state's Golden LEAF Foundation has received more than $129,000 so far for two projects funded largely by the foundation for work in Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin counties, according to local and foundation records.
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Furnishing more insight into Flat Top Manor
Visitors to Flat Top Manor on the Moses Cone estate may imagine seeing Moses and Bertha Cone sitting in the hilltop mansion with family and friends on summer nights, reading and entertaining guests.
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State briefs
U.S. 321 to be widened through Blowing Rock
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PART board complains about not getting info
Board members of the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation complained Wednesday that they are not getting enough information about a federal audit of the agency's finances and what's being done to fix the problems raised in the audit.
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New ruling provides more protection to chicken farmers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration issued a ruling Friday that increases certain protections for poultry and hog farmers.
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Tree farm is a growing business
Once upon a time, in a sunny land down south, Chuck Lieberman was a nursery inspector with a master's degree in fruit crops.
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New River ripples continue
New River Behavioral Healthcare no longer exists, but the financial and legal ripple effects of its stunning collapse continue to unfold.
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ASU will offer a master's in public administration beginning in the fall of 2012
Appalachian State University will offer a master’s degree program in public administration beginning fall 2012.
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Man who won bidding war loses spiritual center
A man who won a bidding war in an auction for the former Spiritual Center of America property and said he planned to put windmills, a plane runway and a Bible college atop the 381-acre mountaintop retreat has defaulted on the terms of the sale.
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Online voting begins for ASU in Solar Decathlon
Online voting has gone live for North Carolina's sole entry into the Solar Decathlon, a contest where Appalachian State University students have set up their Solar Homestead in Washington, D.C.
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Scenario for a disaster
While a disaster can occur in moments, it took four months for planners to write the script that is playing out in the mountains of northwest North Carolina as Samaritan's Purse conducts its biggest-ever training exercise.
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Heavenly Way complex up for sale
The dream was to attract thousands of practitioners of Transcendental Meditation to these thousands of acres of mountain land.
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ASU building evacuated for possible gas leak
Katherine Harper Hall on the Appalachian State University campus was evacuated Thursday morning for a possible gas leak.
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Second chances
When Dr. Amy-Jo Fischer had her routine mammogram in February 2009, the Kernersville dentist didn't worry until a letter came advising her that results were abnormal.
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Michael Feinstein, premier interpreter of American songs, to perform in Boone
Michael Feinstein, known as "The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook," has been nominated for a Grammy five times, and he's performed at Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, the White House and Buckingham Palace.
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ASU to turn Broyhill Inn and Conference Center into student housing
The hotel rooms at Appalachian State University’s Broyhill Inn and Conference Center will be converted to student housing as part of a plan to cut the budget, according to a letter sent Wednesday to ASU faculty and staff by Chancellor Ken Peacock.
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Registered sex offender charged in Boone sexual assault
A registered sex offender has been arrested in connection with a Thursday assault in which police say a man sexually assaulted a neighbor in an apartment complex, tied her up, stole money and left.
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Appalachian State University is ranked 12th on Sierra Club list
BOONE – Appalachian State University has landed in 12th place on Sierra magazine’s ranking of the country’s top "Coolest Schools." The publication of the Sierra Club ranks colleges based on their commitment to solving climate issues and operating sustainably.
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Tourism spending up 9.2 percent in Forsyth in 2010
The combination of more visitors to Forsyth County and higher fuel and food costs contributed to a 9.2 percent jump in spending last year to $622.9 million.
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