On May 7, a psychiatric patient was transported from Watauga Medical Center in Boone to Central Regional Hospital in Butner, just north of Durham. In Central, the patient would be able to receive treatment for his psychiatric condition, and such transports are fairly normal.
DEEP GAP — A 67-year-old man died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem on Aug. 14 after he was in an airplane that crashed in Deep Gap.
BOONE — With students and their families already lugging bags and boxes onto Appalachian State’s campus for the fall semester, the university’s new four-story, 477-space parking deck opened on Aug. 14 — not a second too soon.
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RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is investigating recent reports of severe lung disease after vaping, it said Aug. 16. Three patients have been hospitalized in North Carolina since late July, and similar cases have been reported from other states, includin…
BLOWING ROCK – The anticipated completion of several projects and potential future issues were part of the presentations given as part of the 2019 Blowing Rock State of the Town, which took place Aug. 15 at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum.
BOONE — Stories of people who can’t afford their medication, having to choose between work and health and much more were discussed by a group of stakeholders representing Ashe and Watauga counties and agencies that cover northwest North Carolina during a meeting on the effects of the lack of…
BOONE — Appalachian State’s men’s soccer coach Jason O’Keefe knows something about how special signing a national letter of intent can be for a student-athlete.
ASHEVILLE — The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership is pleased to announce it has been awarded a $100,000 grant by the Appalachian Regional Commission and a matching $25,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina. The new funding is designated to continue the…
The Middle Fork Greenway announced Aug. 14 that it has raised more than $143,000 in six weeks as part of its second annual Roundup for the Greenway fundraiser.
Frank McNair Wooten III, of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., died on Saturd…
Elizabeth Ann Walrath passed peacefully in her home, surrounde…
Michaella Margret Hanifan, “Meme,” died in an automobile accid…
Dr. Thomas D. Vance, 87, of US Highway 221 South, Blowing Rock…
John D. Broyhill, Sr., 90, of Leon Coffey Road, Blowing Rock, …
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In a story Aug. 21 about a lawsuit against novelist Nicholas Sparks by the former headmaster of the school the author founded, The Associated Press, citing testimony from Sparks, reported that former headmaster Saul Hillel Benjamin accepted severance of $150,000 to resig…
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