Community and Business

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month., and for the second year, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System (ARHS) along with many other High Country businesses and organizations, have adopted a Together We Fight approach to breast cancer.

Agricultural producers now can enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs – two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) safety net programs – for the 2020 crop year.

Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care will host Hospice Foundation of America’s (HFA) annual Living With Grief® Program, Aging America: Coping with Loss, Dying, and Death in Later Life, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Friday, November 1, 2019, at Watauga Medical Center, AHEC Building, 336 Deerfield Road, Boone, NC.

Grandfather Mountain can bear-ly stand the excitement, because Oct. 26 marks the nonprofit nature park’s annual Beary Scary Halloween celebration.

The High Country Turkey Trot, the largest 5k in the High Country is on Thanksgiving Day in Boone.

  1. 29th Annual Oktoberfest Celebration at Sugar Mountain Resort This Weekend
  2. Woolly Worm Round Up October 18th Is Buying Woolly Worms
  3. Learn More About Caldwell Hospice & Palliative Care at "Lunch & Learn"
  4. Applications Now Accepted for Innovative Young Farmer of the Year Award