Blowing Rock News

Veterans who served in each conflict from World War II to Iraq and Afghanistan, along with dozens of community members, gathered Monday for Memorial Day events across the High Country.

A man is loaded into an ambulance after a motorcycle wreck Sunday on U.S. 221 South six miles from Blowing Rock.

Friends of the Watauga County Public Library will host the first High Country Festival of the Book at Meadowbrook Inn in Blowing Rock on Aug.

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" has invaded Appalachian State University. The walls of the ASU College of Education Building are now adorned with dozens of iconic images by children's author Eric Carle, and the author will conduct a book signing Friday in conjunction with the new display.

More than $10,000 was raised May 4 when 200 people gathered at the Meadowbrook Inn in Blowing Rock for the ninth annual "Midnight at the OASIS." The event was put on by OASIS Inc.

Now entering its 13th year of entertaining visitors and residents of the High Country, the Monday Night Concert Series once again offers an eclectic lineup of musicians.

From left, Blowing Rock Mayor J.B. Lawrence, Carol Bolick and Blowing Rock Police Chief Erick Brown gather at Bolick's retirement party.

Watauga High School student Patrick Williamson has been selected as the next student member of the Watauga Board of Education.

Scenic views of mountains, farmland and river as far as the eye can see plus the opportunity for some great country cooking await visitors to Riverside Restaurant at Brownwood.

"Country, Gospel and Piano Classics" will be presented by Mountain Home Music on Sunday, May 27, at the Blowing Rock School Auditorium in downtown Blowing Rock.

In his attempt to convey the uncertainty, duplicity and constant fear present in American lives, sculptor Bob Trotman considers himself to be the anti-Norman Rockwell.

Looking like a southern rock singer, or maybe just a cousin to Charlie Daniels, the 62-year-old Hamby slowly paddled the Yadkin River on a Friday morning, talking about birds and trees and that noisy dredging operation, scooping sand out of the bottom of the river.

Lindsey Shapiro, an ASU senior and Miss North Carolina Carolina America National Teenage Scholarship Organization winner, will model new fashions and meet with the public this weekend at Celeste Interiors in Blowing Rock.

Chef Jimmy Crippen, owner of Crippen's Country Inn and Restaurant , has brought his Iron Chef-style cooking competition to the Triangle starting June 11.

For the Watauga High School Class of 2012, the wait is almost over. For most, 13 years of education have led to this culminating event: high school graduation.

Representing Boone United Methodist Women, from left, Lillian Danner, Wynne Ayers and Jane Freund pose with some of the many items available for next week's ABC Sale.

Mountain Home Music is set to begin its 19th season of honoring the music and musicians of the Appalachian region.

Educators agree that the earlier children begin to read and form a love affair with books, the more successful they will be throughout their school years.

Some artists know that they are destined for a lifetime of creativity from the first time they clutch a Crayola.

Operation Medicine Cabinet volunteers, including representatives from Boone Drug, Watauga County Sheriff's Office and the Watauga office of the N.C. Cooperative Extension, man a collection center at a previous event.