BOONE — Typically the Lentz Eggers Gym at Watauga High School plays host to high school basketball or volleyball games. On Jan. 16, it hosted …
RALEIGH — Two days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded COVID-19 vaccine guidelines to include 65 year olds and older…
RALEIGH — Chief Justice Paul Newby has issued an order containing emergency directives related to COVID-19. The order replaces the expired ord…
With questions swirling around the COVID-19 vaccine, the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a panel discussion with community health expert…
AppHealthCare has launched a COVID-19 vaccine interest form for anyone interested in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Anyone can fill out the f…
BOONE — Watauga County Schools administrators are working with officials from local emergency management and AppHealthCare to prepare for comm…
HIGH COUNTRY — The winter season in the High Country brings tourists from all around the state and country to come and enjoy the many seasonal…
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Two weeks into administering the COVID-19 vaccine, AppHealthCare wants people to not give up on prevention measures as it will take time to ge…
LENOIR — After setting up COVID-19 field hospitals in New York and Italy early in the pandemic, Boone-based Samaritan’s Purse is building a ne…
RALEIGH — State officials continued the call for North Carolina residents to remain vigilant in the fight against COVID-19.
At the end of what AppHealthCare Health Director Jennifer Greene calls a long year, some are starting to see the light at the end of the tunne…
RALEIGH — In response to the dramatic rise in numerous key metrics due to the ongoing spread of COVID-19, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper annou…
BOONE — Appalachian Regional Healthcare is reemphasizing the need for community members to be “socially responsible to each other” while the h…
BLOWING ROCK — Alair Homes of the High Country is partnering with The Hunger and Health Coalition’s Simple Gesture Program to ask community me…
A Watauga High School foods and nutrition teacher is finding creative ways to make a typical hands-on cooking class more interactive for virtu…
Watauga County Schools plans to continue with the current 2x3 flex model — a hybrid of in-person and remote learning — for the start of the se…
Governor Roy Cooper issued a new executive order Nov. 23 tightening mask requirements and extending Phase 3 capacity limits and safety requirements.
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper announced Nov. 10 that North Carolina’s indoor mass gathering limit will be lowered to 10 people in an effort to dri…
The Children’s Playhouse building has been closed to the public since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the heart of the High Countr…
BOONE — The Children’s Playhouse building has been closed to the public since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the heart of the Hig…
As part of the statewide Smart Start network, the Watauga Children’s Council launched two new initiatives to support children and families dur…
RALEIGH — North Carolina will remain paused in Phase 3 for the next three weeks, Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Wednesday, Oct. 21.
In the past week, a decline in COVID-19-related hospitalizations at Watauga Medical Center has mirrored a continued decline in active cases in…
BOONE — During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, OASIS is hosting a virtual 5K with the hopes that people reflect on intimate partner violenc…
WEST JEFFERSON — “Team Clean Stream” is a virtual, watershed-wide river cleanup challenge and the New River Conservancy challenges residents t…
North Carolina Judicial Branch Chief Justice Cheri Beasley issued an order Sept. 15 extending emergency directives in response to the COVID-19…
LINVILLE — Grandfather Mountain announced on Sept. 1 that its annual Hawk Watch will take place throughout the month to highlight thousands of…
BOONE — A modification to the county’s state of emergency — approved by the Watauga County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 1 — lifts the restr…