August 6, 2025 The Avery County Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the selection of Victoria Bowman as the ...

August 9, 2025 Heralded as “one of the best FloydFests ever” by Across-the-Way Productions’ Chief Operating Officer and ...

Grandfather Mountain, the not-for-profit nature park run by the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, will once again ...

August 12, 2025. The following are recent obituary notices from Austin and Barnes and Hampton funeral homes in Boone and Reins-Sturdivant in Newland. Read more ...

The King Street Farmers’ Market will be joining Farmers Markets across the country in celebrating National Farmers Market week on Tuesday, August 12th. Join the King Street Market on August 12th, 2025 ...

Town of Boone, North Carolina— Beginning today, July 28th, 2025, the Town of Boone Council Chambers, located at 1500 Blowing Rock Road, will be undergoing necessary renovations. Once completed ...

August 6, 2025 I have fond memories of “The Bad Guys” from 2022. The opening scene was an extended “Pulp Fiction” reference, ...

July 31, 2025 The “First Steps” part of the title of the new “Fantastic Four” movie is misleading. We don’t see the superhero quartet take their first steps, not as changed individuals ...

August 29, 2023 Leigh Cooper Wallace was a young woman who will never be forgotten in the High Country. Her sudden death, from MRSA pneumonia at the age of 43, on December 17, 2012, left the area ...

January 19, 2022 Sugar Top Resort is no stranger to controversy. Since it opened in 1983, it was the catalyst for the state of North Carolina to pass the “Ridge Law” that prohibits any ...

Horace “Ed” William Edmisten, 97, passed away peacefully on June 4, 2025, in Seminole, Florida. Born December 26, 1927, in Watauga County, North Carolina, Ed was the son of the late Fred and ...