East Bend News

Courtney Carol Phillips graduated cum laude from Western Carolina University and WCU Honor's College on May 5. Courtney graduated with a special education degree and with a dual license in general curriculum and adaptive curriculum.

Two well-attended parades with festivals attracted thousands in Yadkin County over the weekend, including the annual Yadkinville July 4 Parade and the 20th Annual East Bend God & Country Celebration.

Casey Morrison, assistant principal at Elkin Elementary School, has been reassigned to become the assistant principal at Elkin High School and the director of transportation for Elkin City Schools.

Love became interested in extension while in elementary school when a group of extension homemakers judged a 4-H dress revue she had entered.

Leneel Chamberlain, owner of the farm where Farm Day was held recently, was presented by Nancy Keith, county extension agent, with the Volunteer of the Year Award Thursday night at the Yadkin County Park.

Forbush High's Caroline Kraft won two first places in the current Yadkin High School juried art show for her photographic work and her fiber work.

The Yadkinville Police Department was called in to Yadkin Early College on Feb. 9 after school staff reported a suspicion of drugs on campus.

The sights and sounds of the gridiron have returned to places like Elkin, Boonville and Ronda this week.

Maureen Silvernale from Yadkin Valley Community Hospital talks to Forbush High Schools Students Audre Broadway, Savannah Adams and Bethany Hunter.

Austin Towner, the son of Deann and Keith Towner of East Bend, has been selected to represent Yadkin County at Governor's School this summer.

Coming up on Saturday, May 12, the Art in the Garden series at the Foothills Arts Council, 129 Church St., Elkin, continues with the play "Love, Loss, and What I Wore." The play centers are a multitude of characters as they relate lost relationships to articles of clothing.

It may not look like it if you catch him on an ordinary weekday as he's serving as the director of Surry Community College's Yadkin Center, but Matthews' other true passion is fire and rescue.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff and Loretta Boger of Advance are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashlee Marie Boger, to Lee Allen Burchette of East Bend.

Whether you're an oenophile or simply someone who likes an occasional touch of the grape, Mount Airy will be the place to be on May 4-5. Fifteen North Carolina wineries have signed up to attend the Third Annual Budbreak Wine Festival, which will take place in historic downtown.

Grace Rohrer's teacher and classmates at Forbush Elementary in East Bend kept a secret: Grace Rohrer's dad, Steven, was planning to surprise her at school upon his return home from deployment in Afgha It took a few seconds for the recognition to set in, for the man in the uniform to fall into place in the little girl's mind.

The bridge located on Old Hwy 421 at the Yadkin River, near the Enon community, in East Bend will be under maintenance beginning April 30 at 7 a.m. to June 1 at 5 p.m. The North Carolina Department of Transportation will be setting up detours to help with traffic control.