Sparta News

North Carolina agriculture leaders urged farmers yesterday to have their wheat tested after officials found high levels of a toxin in wheat samples from central and northeastern North Carolina.

As a result of an investigation into a reported beating of a three-year old child, the King Police Department arrested a female of King and her boyfriend of Sparta, NC on Friday, June 19, 2009.

An 18-year-old North Carolina man was charged after police found a shotgun and alcohol in his vehicle when they stopped him for having a broken windshield, according to a Myrtle Beach police report.

The School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently awarded Ashley Weekes her Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree.

Connelly Springs - Don Clark is in a niche market where customers are often willing to pay more for a product made in America.

SALEM SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS will hold auditions for the 2009-2010 season, May 30-31, in the Scales Fine Arts Center at Wake Forest University.

Wilkes Community College is located in the foothills of Wilkesboro, North Carolina.

TRIBUNE/Leanne Cloudman Visitors to Grassy Creek Vineyard & Winery marveled at the flavors of the wines they were tasting.

For the past 20 years, Dan and Norma Hendricks have spent most of their Friday nights picking and singing bluegrass with fellow local musicians at the Oolenoy Community Building in Pumpkintown.

He was not sad about the amount of money involved. These days, $410 billion is small potatoes.

Supreme Excellence, a stakes winner/producer, succumbed to the infirmities of old age Feb.

A Martinsville company was recently awarded the bid to construct the intake for the new water treatment plant that will eventually serve the towns of Independence and Sparta, N.C., as well as the new state ...

The Alleghany Community Theatre will present the theater adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters' drama, Spoon River Anthology at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Alleghany County Library, 122 N. Main St., Sparta, and 7 p.m. ...

TRIBUNE/Karen Martin According to officials, the curve on southbound U.S. 21 is one of the worst in the N.C. mountains.

"I am Charlotte Simmons" ought to be required reading for college students. Unfortunately, the amount of profanity and sexually explicit content in this novel by Tom Wolfe makes this book an impossible addition ...

The three lead dancers in the upcoming fairy tale production "The Nutcracker" may all still be in high school, but their talent as experienced dancers would make the audience think otherwise.