Spruce Pine News

Name: Kimberley Racheal Greene. Age: 18. Residence: Spruce Pine. Family: Father, Tim; mother, Yana; sister, Hannah Ward, 23; brother-in-law, Gerald Ward, 26; and sisters April, 21, and Lily, 15.

Floyd Patterson worked as a safety professional most of his life, so it's both sad and ironic that his great-granddaughter died in the most basic of accidents.

Sometime in the wee hours of Jan. 1, I declared that I would run 40 races in 2008 to commemorate my 40 years on the planet.

Reader grade: F To A-B Tech for sending out tens of thousands of unsolicited 60-plus page curriculum schedules addressed to "Postal Patron" every year.

Josh Boatwright * jboatwright@citizen-times.com * and Mike McWilliams * published July 3, 2008 12:15 am ASHEVILLE A 1-year-old boy died Wednesday from injuries he suffered in a seven-vehicle pileup on ...

The Town of Waynesville on Tuesday celebrated its designation as a Mountain Heritage Trout City and a 2-mile stretch of Richland Creek as one of five N.C. Mountain Heritage Trout Waters in Western North ...

SPRUCE PINE - Renowned ceramist Norm Schulman has maintained a studio in Penland since 1978.

Comments on Topix forums : SPRUCE PINE The N.C. Wind Working Group will hold a public forum on wind energy in Western North Carolina 6-9 p.m. Tuesday in the Sam Center Auditorium at Mayland Community College in ...

WIND ENERGY: The N.C. Wind Working Group will hold a public forum on wind energy 6-9 p.m. Tuesday in the Sam Center Auditorium at Mayland Community College in Spruce Pine.

'In my father's house there are many rooms. ..." When I heard this passage from the Book of John recited at church I had a child's literal image.

Call them the Katrina dogs. Typically, they're remarkably sweet - grateful even - but they also have some other, more unusual characteristics.

Johnnie and Beverly Van Roekel said they received one of their best retirement gifts earlier this month - when the Lexington City Council withdrew its request to decrease the Lexington City Schools' ...

Each week the Citizen-Times will highlight a tournament of local interest. This weekend will mark the 38th edition of one of WNC's longest-running and most enjoyable tournaments.

Mayland Community College's Basic Skill Program held its Spring GED graduation ceremony at the college's Main Campus in Spruce Pine on June 6. 109 students have completed their GED since the program's last ...

Brian David Smith, 35, of Spruce Pine, died Saturday, May 31 in a one-car accident in Burke County.

Training: My training was in ballet, not in the art of culinary. But I've always had a draw toward food, and it just went with my artistic personality.

No tax increase proposed for town Spruce Pine finance officer says tax increase would not fill budget gap Jonathan Robbins News-Journal Staff As the 2007-08 fiscal year winds down the town of Spruce Pine is ...

Warwick named GM of WTZQ Station has new owners Mark Warwick has been named general manager of WTZQ-1600 AM by the station's new owners, J. Ardell Sink and Remelle K. Sink .

Young helped bring the first panda to the United States in 1934. She was the first woman explorer to go into the wilds along the China-Tibet border.

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