Wilkesboro News

Wilkes Nissan is pleased to welcome the all-electric 2012 Nissan Leaf to its Wilkesboro, NC showroom.

Doc's highway winds down from the North Carolina High Country to Wilkesboro, where 70,000 fans recently feted traditional roots music at the festival Doc helped start in 1988.

Construction workers at the expansion site of Ashe County's Public Library, work to lay a beam in its proper location.

For the protection of motorists, a single travel lane in each direction is now closed to motorists around-the-clock on the Horseblock Road Bridge over the Long Island Expressway in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County.

Merle Fest in Wilkesboro is the best way for kids to learn all abour American music and the folk music by artist like Doc Watson.

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Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his management company.

Jonathan Scales has a look that suggests both Mos Def and Thelonious Monk. His appearance is, of course, incidental to his music, but it does speak to the diverse musical lineage Scales brings to his work at the front of his eponymous Fourchestra.

Doc Watson, Wilkes County's legendary flat-picker, was still in critical condition at Wake Baptist Medical Center, a hospital representative said Monday.

Mildred Lee Thomas Morgan, 88, of The Maples, widow of Henry Albert Morgan, died Saturday, May 26, 2012 at the Rainey Hospice House.

Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson remains in critical condition at a North Carolina hospital after undergoing colon surgery last week.

In this May 1, 2011 photo, master flatpicker Doc Watson performs with The Nashville Bluegrass Band during "Spirit of Sunday" during MerleFest in Wilkesboro, N.C. Watson was in critical condition Thursday, May 24, 2012 at a North Carolina hospital after falling at his home in Deep Gap earlier this week.

Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson remains in critical condition at a North Carolina hospital after undergoing colon surgery this week.

Music legend Doc Watson performs at the annual Merlefest at Wilkes Comunity College in Wilkesboro, N.C. on April 28, 2001.

A decline in global crude oil prices is driving gasoline prices downward - a welcome relief for Memorial Day weekend travelers.

Tommy James and the Shondells delivered a memorable performance Friday, May 18, at the John A. Walker Community Center in Wilkesboro.

Wilkesboro, N.C.-based InterFlex operates five manufacturing plants in the U.S. and the U.K. that produce shrink and stretch wrap, pouches and preformed bags for markets such as the snack foods, dairy and cleaning products sectors.

The young volunteers from the Carolina Cross Connection are coming back this summer to help deserving folks with their minor home repairs.

TV began profiling NASCAR legend Junior Johnson in a series of "Biographical Conversations" episodes that begin airing last Thursday.

Two state highway patrol troopers in northwest North Carolina have expressed humility after they received humanitarian awards for their actions that saved lives.