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Korri-Lee Wood, left, and Danielle Dowell, right, are the new principals at Roaring River Elementary School and East Wilkes Middle School respectively.
North Carolina’s housing stock reflects broader trends driving the state’s development, including demographic and economic forces that have transformed the state over the past several decades.
The Bible protects against what the U.S. surgeon general has termed an “epidemic of loneliness” as harmful to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, the American Bible Society (ABS) ...
A renewed debate about the three -isms of socialism, communism and capitalism has been sparked by a proclaimed socialist candidate, who some claim is actually a communist, running in the ...
The State Board of Education approved the final draft of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction’s (DPI) 37-page, five-year strategic plan, titled “Achieving Educational Excellence,” in its monthly ...
Contentment, a new private golf club off Absher Road and about two miles southwest of Stone Mountain State Park in Traphill, is nearing completion.
Wilkesboro firefighters and police worked together to rescue a dog from the side of a rock cliff along busy U.S. 421 Business ...
Fresh Start Farm is a therapeutic work program that operates under auspices of Wilkes Recovery Revolution. It provides fresh ...
North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles is the subject of two new audits looking to address long wait times for customers ...
North Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church at 804 E Street was recently certified as an “Earth Care Congregation” by the ...
The Wilkesboro Town Council on Monday unanimously rezoned two separate and unrelated residential properties for general business use.