 | Contractor Sacked on Blowing Rock ProjectSlow progress on the US 321 project around Blowing Rock? It may speed up now, but the completion estimate has been pushed back 6 months, that as the state has changed prime contractors on the project. Maymead Inc. of Mountain City, Tenn., has replaced Taylor & Murphy of Asheville
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 | Jobless Rate Jumps in HC, Across StateThere are people in the High Country who knew this report would be bad long before the statistics came out—that unemployment rates jumped in the area in January—just as the State Legislature was voting to decrease unemployment compensation. Some 5000 people are officially looking
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 | Local Real Estate: Still Buyers MarketLocal realtors are enjoying a busy start to 2013, with sales through the first two months of the year the highest in that span since 2008. Yet the demand has yet to result in increased prices. There were 146 realtor-assisted sales in January and February, a 22 percent increase over the first two months
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 | Commissioners Mull Watauga Transportation Plan Phil Trew from the High Country Council of Governments presented a county wide comprehensive transportation plan developed by the High Country Rural Transportation Planning Organization to the Watauga Commissioners during their Tuesday evening meeting.
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 | Brubaker Identified as Fire VictimThe official word came in late yesterday afternoon from Medical Examiner Dr. Brent Hall—that the fire victim from Wednesday morning’s apartment fire was 23-year-old Christopher Alan Brubaker. The Boone native’s body was found in the rubble of the apartment on Homespun Hills Road,
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 | Spring?So the arrival of spring yesterday is met with—snow-making at Appalachian Ski Mountain. And the first full day of spring brings—real snow—and real cold. Making lemonade out of the situation, Brad Moretz of App Ski said that the late season snow is a bonus that they’re taking advantage of,
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 | Hickory Man Killed in US 321 CrashUS 321 is back open to traffic south of Blowing Rock after a fatal accident that involved two trucks and a Jeep. The State Patrol has identified the man killed as 41-year old Michael Allen Ray of Hickory, driver of a panel truck struck by a skidding, overturned tractor trailer.
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 | Watauga Man Hurt in US 321 WreckA Watauga man was injured in an afternoon single-vehicle wreck on US 321 near Riverview Grocery. The 4:40pm crash occurred as Joseph Randall Keller lost control of his 2002 Ford Taurus, the car hitting the ditch line and running along the ditch for some distance before striking a large rock,
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 | Hickory Man Indicted in Federal CourtA Hickory, N.C. man has been charged with methamphetamine trafficking near an elementary school and gun related offenses, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Attorney Tompkins announced the arrest along with ICE
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 | Ashe Man Dies as Car Flips into CreekAn Ashe County man died in a crash late Wednesday morning, his car landing overturned in the waters of a creek. The 11:40am wreck was on US 221 North of Jefferson and occurred when Harlie Wagoner ran off of the highway to the right, his 2005 VW hitting a large culvert, according to trooper
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