December 30, 2025. The following are recent obituary notices from Austin and Barnes and Hampton funeral homes in Boone and Reins-Sturdivant in Newland. Read more ...

Are you interested in the future of your community and have extra time to volunteer? Would you like to serve on one of Blowing Rock’s municipal boards? The Blowing Rock Town Council will soon consider ...

The Amish have long been known and respected for their workmanship, and many of us have seen them in their element while visiting Ohio’s Holmes County and the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area. But, to see ...

On October 15, 2025, Joseph Scott Knight was called home by his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Scott passed on peacefully surrounded by his family and numerous close friends. Scott was a great ...

My older brother, Dick (nicknamed “P.B.”… my middle name is Scott ), was killed by a drunk driver the day after Christmas, 1971. We had been living in Atlanta, where he had a shoe store and I was ...

The Blowing Rock police department has been investigating possible solutions to help with the enforcement of parking violations for over a year. They determined that they needed to hire parking ...

Leigh Cooper Wallace, pictured here with daughter, Haleigh was always on the run, instilling in her children at an early age that health and physical fitness was a way of life. Photo submitted Leigh ...

This 1758 map, authored by English cartographers Emanuel Bowen and John Gibson, shows the “Apalachaen Mountains” region of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and part of Virginia. According to ...

A team from Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture designed a tabletop tree, displayed at the F.A.R.M. café, for the WYN Festival of Trees. The festival featured real and artificial trees of varying sizes.

All Watauga County Public Library locations will open at 1 PM on Thursday, December 18 to allow for morning staff training. All Watauga County Public Libraries will be closed for the Christmas holiday ...

Appalachian State University has begun the process to change the freedom of expression tunnels into updated, well-lit, freshly painted tunnels with a more consistent security presence and surveillance ...

BANNER ELK, N.C.— This Halloween season, the latest musical from Lees-McRae Theatre Arts, “Lizzie,” dives into the famous true crime case of Lizzie Borden and offers a new perspective on the infamous ...