Valle Crucis News

"Rural Roots: Mountain Songs," will be presented this Saturday, June 2nd on Mountain Home Music.

Thumbs-up: to the more than 300 Watauga High School graduates expected to cross the stage Saturday.

When Doc Watson returns to the stage at Cook Memorial Park in Todd on Aug. 21, he will be accompanied by his grandson Richard and his picking friend Charles Welch.

"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.

Lees-McRae College honored Dorothy M. "Dotti" Shelton and R. Edwin "Ed" Shelton, of Dobson and Banner Elk, with the Rev.

School board Chairwoman Deborah Miller, left, congratulates Valle Crucis teacher Katie Matthews on Friday after Matthews was named Watauga County Teacher of the Year.

For 10 years, the community of Valle Crucis has come together for live music and will celebrate a landmark achievement in its musical tradition.

On Saturday, May 19, Mountain Home Music opens its 19th season. It's a season that will feature two Grammy Award-winners, two members of the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame, a two-time National Banjo Champion and a two-time National Canadian Fiddling Champion, plus many other local and regional musicians whose music reflects the heritage of the Blue ... (more)

More than 30 low-income Boone-area families will receive weekly allotments of sustainably grown, local food under a new cost-share program launched by High Country Community Supported Agriculture, in partnership with the Appalachian District Health Department, the Children's Council and the Community Care Clinic.