 | Boone Town Council Calls for CO DetectorsAfter three tragic deaths at the Boone Best Western Hotel, the Boone Town Council is taking action, voting unanimously last night to petition the North Carolina Building Code Council to amend state codes to require that carbon monoxide detectors be required in hotels.
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 | Jones Named All-State, Headed To San JoseThe accolades just keep pouring in for Ryder Jones. Jones, who graduated from Watauga High on June 8, has been a very busy guy the last several weeks. He was named first team all-Northwestern 3A/4A Conference and the NW3A/4A Conference Player of the Year;
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 | Watauga Courthouse Break In Suspect SoughtRecognize this tattoo? High Country Crime Stoppers and Boone Police are asking for public’s assistance in solving a break-in to the Watauga County Courthouse from early Saturday morning. Police say that at approximately 1:00 am Saturday morning, a shirtless white male entered
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 | Two Charged With Drug Counts by Avery SOThen on the evening of June 13th, officers with the Avery County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop on Hwy 221 near the McDowell County line. The driver of the pickup truck was identified as 25 year old Robert Lowery of Roan Mountain, Tennessee, a passenger was identified as
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 | Elk Park Man Arrested in Traffic StopOn the evening of June 12th, deputies with the Avery County Sheriff’s Office made a traffic stop on Old Mill Rd in Elk Park, and an occupant of the vehicle was identified as 18 year old Aamon Webb of Watauga Street in Newland was reportedly found in that vehicle. Officers determined that Webb
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 | Killer Pool Heater "Not the one permitted"“If we had inspected it, the odds are, this would not be—we would not be talking about this now.” In the course of a trio of reporters asking Boone Planning Director Bill Bailey about the timeline for reopening the Boone Best Western Hotel, a new bombshell was dropped—that the swimming pool
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 | Sinkhole Swallows Shoppes Monday BusinessA sinkhole sunk business—at least for one day—at Tanger Shoppes on the Parkway. Employees said that, about 9:30 yesterday morning, workers doing some work near the entrance, watched as the median between the entrance and exit lanes, suddenly disappeared.
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 | Boone Native Son, Jim Holshouser, DiesNotable native son Former Gov Jim Holshouser—the first Republican to be elected as North Carolina's chief executive in the 20th century, died today at age 78. Family said that Holshouser had been in failing health for some time, and he died at First Health of the Carolinas Medical Center in Pinehurst.
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 | Verizon Store Smashed in Sunday IncidentThe Verizon Store in the Gateway Center on US 421 in Boone, operated by High Country Wireless, was hit late Sunday afternoon by a vehicle that slammed into the front, the suspect then floored the vehicle, spinning tires to back out, then fled the scene, leaving a trail of broken glass
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 | Tractor Trailer Flips off US 321Blowing Rock Fire & Rescue responded to this over turned tractor trailer in Highway 321 in Blowing Rock near the Green Park Inn on Friday evening. The driver of the US Foods truck laid the truck on it's side in a curve in the southbound lane of the highway. The driver of the truck was uninjured.
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