The State of the Child/State of the Community forum took place April 17 at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. The event — put on by the Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative — hosted speakers and workshop sessions centered around preventing trauma and building resiliency in times of trauma. Pho…
Community members gathered at the Watagua County Public Library on Jan. 20 for a Sister March. The march was hosted as a solidarity event inspired by the Women's March on Washington in 2017, according to Paula Finck, who helped to organize the event.
VALLE CRUCIS — On Friday, Aug. 12, a fire consumed the Valle Landing shops and apartment building on N.C. 194 beside Valle Crucis Elementary School.
Eight hundred people ran The Bear at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in Linville NC on July 7. See anyone you know?
International Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse is deploying a disaster response team along with a tractor-trailer stocked with tools and emergency supplies to West Virginia.
