August 5, 2025. The following are recent obituary notices from Austin and Barnes and Hampton funeral homes in Boone and Reins-Sturdivant in Newland. Read more ...

August 9, 2025 Heralded as “one of the best FloydFests ever” by Across-the-Way Productions’ Chief Operating Officer and Co-Owner Sam Calhoun, FloydFest 25~Aurora is receiving rave reviews ...

‘How P.B. Scott’s Came To Be…’ An Extensive Profile of the Legendary Venue Written by One of the Founders ...

Few of us are old enough to remember the heartbreak of the Great Depression, with its gaunt families living in cars, roaming in search of work, but we have seen the photos. I hope the Great ...

July 1, 2025 June has been Pride month in North Carolina for many years, dating back to the “Our Day Out” march in Asheville back in 1981. It became an official month to focus on and proclaim ...

February 29, 2024 Resident artist, Brenda Councill has been recognized nationally for a sculpture monument project. Through a partnership with Mandarin Museum & Historical Society in Jacksonville ...

February 27, 2023 Tester Dairy Farm in Zionville has been around for several generations and today is the only Grade A Dairy Farm in the area, sending out a tanker full of milk every other day ...

Horace “Ed” William Edmisten, 97, passed away peacefully on June 4, 2025, in Seminole, Florida. Born December 26, 1927, in Watauga County, North Carolina, Ed was the son of the late Fred and ...

Holy Cross Church circa 1926 One hundred years ago, in 1925, the Episcopal faith community in and around Valle Crucis laid the foundation for the stone church and built a new spiritual home for ...

Private helipad and a 29-acre mountaintop setting distinguish 600 Stonehedge Court, the highest-priced active listing in the High Country MLS, offered at $12,995,000. A landmark estate in North ...