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Watauga High Class of 2007 graduates Monday
Monday, May 28, marks the end of a long journey for Watauga High School’s senior class. They will celebrate their graduation at Appalachian State University’s George M. Holmes Convocation Center at 7:30 p.m. No ticket is needed to attend the ceremony. Those attending should park in the nearby parking deck. To read more, please click here.
Photo by Marie Freeman |
Final new high school plans presented
About 40 people attended an information session at Watauga High School to hear architects and an education subcommittee discuss a new high school project in Perkinsville. Read more.
News briefs: Fake bills reported
The Watauga County Sheriff’s Office has received information that a counterfeit $20 bill was passed at a local business. The two suspects who passed the counterfeit bill were white males, late 20s to early 30s and they were driving a 2005-06 silver Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. Read more.
Agencies make budget pleas
A public hearing on Watauga County’s budget drew a number of local agencies who requested increased funding for the next fiscal year. The county budget as presented is $53 million, of which $42 million is proposed for the General Fund budget covering county services, operations and sanitation. Read more.
Graduation: Valedictorian Brianna Fleming, salutatorium Cindy Burton
After hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours of studying and attending classes, Brianna Fleming is officially the best. The best in her graduating class at Watauga High School, that is. Read more.
Boone Town Council backs anti-litter resolution
The Boone Town Council plans to reduce litter – one resolution at a time. The council unanimously adopted a resolution supporting the 2007 Litter Reduction Act at its Thursday, May 17, regular meeting.
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May 23, 2007
Reason to run
Runners will line up at Valle Crucis School on Saturday to participate in the sixth annual Watauga River Run. But for school prinicipal Wayne Eberle, this race is not about competition or personal record but more how one former teacher and friend changed his life before and after her death in 2002. To read more, please click here.
Photo by Marie Freeman |
Watauga recycling rate declines again
Despite increased attention to recycling and local zero-waste efforts, Watauga County’s per capita recycling rate dropped for the fourth straight year. An annual recycling report released Thursday by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources showed Watauga’s recycling rate for the 2005-06 fiscal year was nearly 183 pounds per person, a drop from 197 pounds per person the previous year and a drop of 23 pounds since 2002-2003. Read more.
Boone Town Council withholds water/sewer service request
The Boone Town Council denied a water and sewer request for a proposed student housing development off N.C. 194. Read more.
Rain helps sprout summer programs
Family fun in the sun, a better environment and better homes and gardens are all benefits of a summer program offered through the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service. The local branch of the extension service is hosting the “Backyard Conservation Workshop Series” for the first time, partnering several of its endeavors in a comprehensive series. Read more.
May 21, 2007
Passing the torch
Special Olympian Clint Miller, right, carries a torch while Boone Police officer Tom Redmond runs beside him on Blowing Rock Road at the start of the 27th annual Torch Run sponsored by all area law enforcement agencies to help fund the North Carolina Special Olympics. Photo by Marie Freeman |
Previewing a new high school: Public meeting Wednesday from 6-9 p.m.
The public will have a chance to consider and discuss the new Watauga High School site plan during an informational meeting on Wednesday at the current high school in Boone. The board of education and county commissioners will present preliminary site plans from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. as an open, drop-in session. Read more.
‘Coach’ gets top teacher award
Busy planning an upcoming field trip, she did not notice the gym doors open. Busy poring over details, she did not notice the approaching throng of reporters and school personnel. She didn’t notice her own children or her parents grinning wider with each step. And then finally — she looked up. Read more.
Boone Town Council nixes playground zoning
It was “no” to playgrounds, but “yes” to conditional zoning, sidewalks and mixed-use districts, when the Boone Town Council acted on several zoning text amendments at last Thursday’s regular meeting.
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Town council paves 421 plans
With N.C. Department of Transportation plans for the widening of U.S. 421 under development, local decision-makers have announced plans of their own. The Boone Town Council followed a Boone Transportation Committee recommendation to encourage Watauga County, Appalachian State University, the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce and High Country Council of Governments to endorse several recommendations for the highway improvement project. Read more.
Local genealogist tracks Hartley descendants
As an amateur genealogist for the past 30 years, I have read with interest the stories regarding the new Watauga High School and the proposed relocation of those buried in the old Reuben Hartley Cemetery, particularly since so many Wataugans are related to Reuben Hartley and his wife, Joanna Greene Hartley, and yet probably have no knowledge of their connection. Read more. |
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