West Jefferson News

Improvising composers perform in West Jefferson. A special concert of free music featuring touring musicians at Bohemia.

A Lindseya s Tire Center employee blows the excess pine needles out of a Christmas tree while readying it to send home with a customer Thursday afternoon.

A group of concerned citizens has spent the year forming an organization dedicated to preserving the frescoes painted at two local churches.

An Ashe County High School student was arrested last week after being accused of taking a loaded firearm onto school property.

The past two years have been difficult for 9-year-old Jenna Barnes. Jenna lost her mother in July 2007 and this past October tragedy struck yet again.

The Bethany United Methodist Church hand bell choir, the Ding-A-Lings, will perform a holiday concert this Sunday, December 13, at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary of the church in West Jefferson.

It was a oehail and farewella to one aldermen and a oewelcomea to another as the West Jefferson Board of Aldermen conducted an organizational meeting Monday night.

Monday night marked the beginning of new four-year terms for three members of the West Jefferson Board of Aldermen and the end of service for another when the board met in regular session on Monday, Dec.

A decade at the West Jefferson Post Office has resulted in a lot of familiar faces for Dan Suggs.

Courtesy of J.R. Shatley, West Jefferson, N.C. Some Piedmont residents saw some snowflakes Saturday, but most of the winter weather stayed to the west of the Triad.

Three separate break-ins that occurred between March and October have led to the arrest of 30-year-old Daniel Wayne Moreshi.

What better backdrop for a holiday greeting card than the rolling hills of our own Blue Ridge Mountains? The holiday season is here, and the High Country region has about a zillion ways to celebrate it.

An historic property in Ashe County is receiving some much needed renovation in preparation for a return to its glory days.

Artists circled Christmas trees at the Ashe Arts Center in West Jefferson on Saturday, Nov.

High Country Toastmasters Charter Members: Seated: Terri Lockwood, Dacia Trethewey, Peggy Cerchione, Marie Wilkie, Sandy Cambron, Margo Powell; Second row: Larry Link, Katherine Alford, Gigi Sampson, Shawn Bergman, Glenda Teams, Ken Levra; Third Row: Bob Cambron, Chuck Claxton, Ron Rognstad, Ken Miller; Not Pictured: MaryKelly Glidewell, Joe Veler, ...

Check the High Country Press weekly now through the end of the year for a listing of local holiday events.

For residents of the Brownwood Community, located near Todd on the border of Ashe and Watauga Counties, options for eating out have generally been limited and required a drive to either Boone or West Jefferson.

The streets of West Jefferson came alive on Saturday afternoon as children and parade goers of all ages lined the sidewalks of Jefferson Avenue in anticipation for the 2009 Holiday Parade, sponsored by the Parker Tie Co.

Storyteller, author comedienne and motivational speaker Kelly Swanson will bring her newest program, Who Hijacked My Fairy Tale? How to Hang on to Humor When Life Doesn't Go the Way you Planned , to the Ashe Arts Center in West Jefferson at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov.

The Hobby Barn location on Jefferson Avenue. Finding out what customers want and filling the need is one route to success owner, Danny Jones, said.