Today, the rest of us will help decide who takes the leadership of the nation, the state, county commissions, school boards, sheriff departments, whether we can waive the right to a trial by jury in North Carolina, as well as various local issues in communities across the state and country. Full Story

So we’re all happy that gas prices have fallen and continue to fall across the country, with predictions that prices will continue to fall.  But quite a few of us in the High Country are a bit less happy about gas prices when we travel just a short distance and find that gas prices are well under $3 Full Story

The Clerk of Watauga Superior Court report that jurors scheduled to report for jury duty for Watauga County Superior Court for the week of November 3rd are released from service.  All memebers of the jury that were instructed to report on Tuesday, November 4th do NOT need Full Story

After rushing for a career-high 250 yards and three touchdowns in Saturday’s 44-0 win over Georgia State, Appalachian State University football’s Marcus Cox (Dacula, Ga./Dacula) has been named the Sun

There was strong early voting in Watauga County, with over 8000 voters casting ballots by the end of the early voting Saturday at 1—8,241, and across the state, strong voting for a midterm election is reported, with Democrats out-polling Republicans.  State Board of Elections Full Story

With the blast of cold and snow, Sugar Mountain Ski has opened, making Sunday, November 2nd, one of the earliest starts ever for skiing and snowboarding. Owner & President Gunther Jochl said This marks the second earliest opening on record; just behind the Halloween Full Story

The calendar changed to November and winter promptly arrived, first with wind and rain, then snow, then snow and wind, and finally this morning, just wind—and cold.  Temperatures across the High Country landed in the 20’s overnight, some areas reporting teens.  All of this Full Story

In a driving High Country snowstorm, Appalachian State University football put together a second-straight dominating performance and routed visiting Georgia State, 44-0, on Saturday at Kidd Brewer Stadium.

The winter weather finally hit overnight Friday into Saturday morning in the High Country, with the swirl of low pressure bringing the snow passing just south of the area.  That path rotated a lot of moisture over the northern mountains, with snow accumulating first on grass Full Story

Any ideas the Hickory High football team might have had about pulling off a huge upset Friday night were dashed by Watauga in the seconmd quarter. Leading 10-6,

The strong summer of real estate sales continued in September, and slightly outpaced last year’s rate.  Since May, High Country Realtors® have sold an average of 125 listings a month, according to the High Country Multiple Listing Service, which tracks activity in Ashe, Full Story