Members of the Raleigh Concert Band joined with the Watuaga Community Band for rehearsal yesterday, preparing for a concert this afternoon at Rosen Concert Hall on the ASU campus. 

(Photo--Billy Ralph Winkler, WCB Director, conducts rehearsal Saturday afternoon)

The Appalachian State football team rallied from a 14-point, third-quarter deficit to beat Wofford 44-34 Saturday in Spartanburg, SC.

Snow flurries greeted visitors to the 32nd annual Wooly Worm Festival in Banner Elk, but the crowd bundled up to enjoy the event in spite of near-freezing weather. 

Jonathan Frye, a 6-4 senior guard from Northern Guilford High School, has announced he will attend Appalachian State University to play basketball for Buzz Peterson next season.

The Watauga High football team controlled the line of scrimmage Friday night and defeated Fred T. Foard 27-14 in the final homecoming game at Jack Groce Stadium.

Employees at Marx Industries in Sawmills helped apprehend a man who they say was breaking into vehicles that were parked in the foam plant’s parking lot.

Howard’s Creek Baptist Church will be holding a Judgment House drama late this month into November.

The High Country Association of Realtors reports their sales were sluggish, but remained steady through September.

The Western Youth Network will be hosting their 4th Annual Valle Crucis Punkin’ Fest on Saturday, October 24 at the Mast General Store Annex in Valle Crucis.

Several residents attended a Breast Cancer Fundraiser at Belk at the Boone Mall last night.

A few roadways in downtown Boone will be closed this afternoon to make way for Watauga High’s homecoming parade.

A Sugar Grove man and a Johnson City man pled guilty to methamphetamine production charges in a federal court in Statesville Thursday.

The 32nd Annual Woolly Worm Festival will be held this weekend in downtown Banner Elk.

Early voting for local municipality elections began today across the state.

An eight-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway just south of Asheville will be closed because officials fear a nearby slope will crumble, causing a landslide.

Residents will be able to donate money for Watauga High’s baseball facility at their new school location in Perkinsville at tomorrow night’s Pioneer football game against Fred T. Foard.

Garth Brooks announced today at a press conference at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee that he was coming out of retirement.

$14.6 million in federal stimulus money was awarded to North Carolina to build a 100-bed veterans’ rest home in Western North Carolina.

State Representative Cullie Tarleton is now a member of the Joint Legislative Study Commission on State Funded Student Financial Aid.

An Appalachian State alumnus, and former captain on the Mountaineer baseball team, has been named the founding dean of the new College of Health Sciences and Allied Professions at App State.

Ashe County residents who are in need of a little help in paying for energy and heating fuel can apply for the Fuel Assistance Program early next month.

NASCAR officials announced inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame today at the Charlotte Convention Center.

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx introduced a bill Wednesday that requires the Census Bureau to determine the number of illegal immigrants in the United States in the upcoming census.

Black bear population across the state is on the rise and officials are urging residents to be aware.

The missing teenage girl from Lenoir has been found.

In response to the Senate Finance Committee’s approval of a healthcare reform bill, two of North Carolina’s elected officials have released statements in support of the motion.

Several local animal care organizations are in need of blankets to keep the animals warm this winter.

Dust off your woolly worm nets because the Avery County Chamber of Commerce needs your help in collecting 1,200 woolly worms for this weekend’s Woolly Worm Festival.