April 1, 2005
April's song
Welcoming spring with a song, High Country resident Ryan Crider plays his banjo on the front porch of his Perkinsville home. Crider recently moved to the area from Pennsylvania to learn how to play the banjo. His speciality is the fiddle. Photo by Katie Hays |
Bob Cole given top state award
A Todd man has won one of the state’s highest awards for public service.
Bob Cole was given the “Order of the Long Leaf Pine” award for his work in promoting the importance of bees to the world’s food supply. Cole has been raising bees since the age of three, and both his grandparents were beekeepers. He was born in the Rockingham area but moved to the mountains in 1967.
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Town has not yet formed a plan for storm water management
The Boone Area Planning Commission denied recommendation of a town of Boone initiated amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) that would affect storm water retention.
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Storm water makes a splash with town council
Though the town of Boone is carefully monitoring its water usage, the Boone Town Council is now turning its eyes to a different, though equally wet, subject — storm water. Storm water was the topic of a March public hearing, with the town initiating a zoning amendment to Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) section 316, regarding off-line storm water retention requirements.
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Living wills may not be enough
It’s hard for people, especially young people, to contemplate and prepare for personal tragedy, but it should be something they’re not afraid to talk about, especially if they want to help their families avoid a controversy such as the one surrounding the Terry Schiavo case.
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Boone Police Reports
March 17: The Winn Dixie on N.C. 105 complained of receiving a worthless check.
Lowe’s Hardware on Blowing Rock Road was the location of a theft involving a small, brown leather purse containing a credit card, an unspecified number of $20 bills, and a state employee’s check book.
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March 30, 2005
Heading home
Members of the local National Guard unit have arrived in North Carolina and are heading home. For more on the story, please link below. Photo by Rob Moore
Welcome home soldiers! |
Troops returning home
The eagle has landed.
On Monday at 3:30 a.m., members of the National Guard 1451st Transportation Company based in Boone have returned from their tour of duty in Iraq, landing at Pope Air Force Base at Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville. Members of the 1451st were attached to the 1450th based in West Jefferson. The were activated in the fall of 2003, underwent training at Ft. Stewart in Georgia, and were deployed overseas in March of last year.
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Blowing Rock gets OK for $2 million loan
The town of Blowing Rock has received approval of a loan for more than $2 million to construct a new emergency services and fire department building.
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Foxx co-sponsoring legislation that could help businesses pay less for health insurance
Fifth District Rep. Virginia, R-N.C, heard the needs of business owners while campaigning last year and followed that up with co-sponsoring legislation that could help businesses pay less for health insurance.
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High Country Briefs:
The Watauga County Sheriff's Office arrested 41-year-old Dominick Francis Corso of Vannoy Lane, Boone, and charged him with a felony for failing to register as a sex offender.
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March 28, 2005
Habitat digging in …
The Habitat For Humanity received permission to prowl through the county’s trash during Tuesday’s regular meeting.
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Rep. Foxx meets with farmers
Fifth District Rep. Virginia Foxx spoke with local farmers over breakfast at the Mountain House Restaurant last Thursday.
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Town council recommending changes to comprehensive plan
The Boone Town Council recommended a few changes to the Boone Area Planning Commission’s analysis overview of the comprehensive plan at its regular March meeting.
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