November 25, 2005
Turkey for teachers
Karen Cox serves Whit Whitaker a slice of apple pie while Stephen Kennedy prepares to cut a pumpkin pie. Members of the Watauga High School Student Council annually honor the school’s teachers by providing a Thanksgiving feast for them. Photo by Marie Freeman |
Tobacco quota deadline approaches
The first year of tobacco settlement payments has been distributed to most local quota holders, with the deadline approaching for those who wish to receive their remaining payments in one lump sum.
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Katrina evacuee will enjoy local Thanksgiving
Like more than a million people who have shared her fate, Becky Preston’s life changed forever just 12 weeks ago when the sixth-strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, Hurricane Katrina, roared upon the shoreline of the Gulf Coast portion of the United States.
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Officials look for ways to enhance local ecosystem
Wendy Patoprsty is a fan of the Greenway.
Ideal for jogging, bicycling or a leisurely stroll, the extensive trail leads its visitors throughout the town of Boone and, in parts, along the South Fork of the New River. It was this that caught Patoprsty’s attention. More specifically, it was the status of the stream and banks that raised her eyebrow.
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Christmas tree industry adds online options
The choose-and-cut Christmas tree season is in full swing, but local growers have also teamed up for a fund-raising click-and-cut effort.
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Watauga Opportunities produces ornaments
Christmas came a little early for Watauga Opportunities, and its work will help brighten the Christmas season for millions of others.
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Summit focuses on heritage
Though much of the Sixth Annual Future Forward Leadership Summit last Thursday focused on entrepreneurship as a means for rural economic development, one speaker brought audience members back to their roots.
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November 23, 2005
The De-Iceman Cometh
Andy Mahala spreads salt on the sidewalks of the Watauga campus of Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute Tuesday morning as the second snowfall of the season blew through the High Country overnight. The High Country may be receiving more tonight, as weather forecasters are predicting a chance of snow and snowshowers. (Headline trivia: “The Iceman Cometh” was written by Eugene O’Neil in 1939.) Photo by Marie Freeman
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Former police officer charged in burglary ring
A federal grand jury has indicted a former Fayetteville police officer on charges he led a burglary ring that targeted homes in Fayetteville, Raleigh and Beech Mountain.
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ASU had most drug offenses in system
Safety concerns are growing at Appalachian State University following the second drug-related shooting death of a student in 13 months and the mountain campus’s reputation for easy access to illegal substances, school officials say.
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Watauga Sheriff's Office Reports
Nov. 8— A generator was reported stolen from a home on the 3000 block of Deerfield Road.
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Boone water usage increases
The Boone Town Council received its monthly water use status report at last Thursday’s regular meeting. Rick Miller, director of Boone Public Utilities, presented the report on October’s water useage. He said the water treatment plant recorded a maximum daily demand of 2.026 million gallons on Sunday, Oct. 16.
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Convention Center launches new Web site
The choose-and-cut Christmas tree industry will get a little more cyber promotion this year under a state tourism grant, but mailboxes will also get a seasonal taste of what the High Country has to offer.
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Boone Town Council OKs zoning changes
Following suit with the Boone Area Planning Commission, the Boone Town Council breezed through and adopted the series of zoning amendments presented at the last quarterly public hearing.
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Anti-DUI campaign launches
The Department of Transportation kicked off its Winter 2005 “Booze It & Lose It” campaign in Boone on Friday, with more than 50 officers from across the western part of the state in attendance.
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Summit examines future of rural life
Rural economic development headlined the first panel discussion at last Thursday’s Sixth Annual Future Forward Leadership Seminar.
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Future forward: Economic issues take center stage
Economic development was the theme of last Thursday’s Sixth Annual Future Forward Leadership Summit.
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November 21, 2005
Near top spot for Mountaineers
From left, Appalachian State University football players Brandon Turner, Jerome Touchstone and Justin Woazeah react to the announcement that the Mountaineers earned the No. 2 seed in the Division I-AA playoffs which begin Saturday against Lafayette at Kidd-Brewer Stadium.
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Trivette pleads guilty to federal sex charges
A federal grand jury indictment has led a former Watauga High School assistant coach to plead guilty to using his computer to lure a minor into a sexual rendezvous last January. George Clayton Trivette, Jr., 35, was indicted in September on a federal charge of enticing a female under 18 into a criminal act.
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Weekend wreck kills local man
A 33-year-old Blowing Rock man is dead and another Blowing Rock resident is in critical condition following an early Saturday-morning crash on U.S. 221. Jonathon Moretz was killed when the 1998 Ford Explorer he was riding in sped through a curve between Blowing Rock and Boone and overturned just after 3 a.m.
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Slopes hope for cold snap
Area ski slopes took advantage of a cold snap to fire up the snow makers and opened for the weekend. Sugar Mountain Ski Resort opened on Friday for skiing and snowboarding, after crews began making artificial snow Wednesday afternoon.
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Parts of Oak Street will remain one-way
Portions of Oak Street will permanently remain one-way, after the Boone Town Council adopted recommendations of the Boone Transportation Committee at Thursday’s regular meeting.
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Howard Street project approved
The Boone Town Council paved a final plan for Howard Street at Thursday’s regular meeting. Brian Tripp, engineer with W.K. Dickson consulting firm, presented final plans for the Howard Street revitalization project, which would designate a portion of Howard Street one-way.
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Town Council: Booting issue takes center stage
Booting continues to be an issue in downtown Boone, as well as in the Boone Town Council chambers. The Boone Town Council amended the booting ordinance of the town code at its Thursday regular meeting. Last month, Jon Tate, owner of We Wheel Lock, a company that uses parking control devices, better known as boots, to enforce parking in private parking lots in town, requested an amendment to the ordinance that would allow more leeway for parking lot attendants.
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County receives water estimate
The Watauga County Board of Commissioners accepted an estimate that the county would need 2 million gallons of water per day for its proposed water connections. The estimate, received during the board’s regular Tuesday meeting, is projected through 2030, based on anticipated growth and service in the Deep Gap/U.S. 421 area and the U.S. 321 corridor between Boone and Blowing Rock.
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Methane collection moves forward
The Watauga County commissioners have appointed a “working group” to make recommendations for a methane collection effort at the former county landfill.
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A white Christmas for Boone
Even if snow does not cover the ground on Dec. 25, Boone will have a white Christmas.
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