Bakersville News

Red Bays and Donna Davis from Bakersville, North Carolina are trying to get back more than $800.00 that was stolen after Davis left her purse in a shopping cart at the Johnson City Wal-Mart parking lot in May.

Sunny weather and thousands of shoppers invaded downtown Hillsville yesterday as the VFW opened its 42nd annual gun show and flea market.

If you've ever doubted a dog could be in love I think the story in the Citizens Times about two strays will change your mind.

The arts community is tightknit, and in some cases, this community can stretch way outside the North Carolina borders, especially when a fellow artist is in need.

The arts community is tightknit, and in some cases, this community can stretch way outside the North Carolina borders, especially when a fellow artist is in need.

The arts community is tightknit, and in some cases, this community can stretch way outside the North Carolina borders, especially when a fellow artist is in need.

The 14th annual Roan Moan on July 25 offers a strenuous century , metric century, quarter century and barbecue.

BAKERSVILLE Authorities are searching for two young children missing at a western North Carolina mountain park near the Tennessee state line.

Location: Buncombe County, South of Asheville NC-146 , Both Directions Near I-26 Lane Closed - One of two lanes closed.

Where : Race starts at Gouge Elementary in Bakersville. When : One-mile starts at 8 a.m. Saturday; 10K starts at 8:30 a.m. Cost : $15. Register 7-8 a.m. Saturday at race site.

See artists at work during the River Arts District Studio Stroll from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Parents of children attending Watauga Head Start or who had applied for the 2009-10 head start program received letters late last week notifying them the school would be closing its doors permanently effective immediately.

Cousins in Clay: Come for the Day--Come for the Weekend. Seagrove Potters Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke have invited NC Potter Michael Kline to join them for a combined Pottery Opening at Bulldog Pottery.

Two Mitchell County towns, Spruce Pine and Bakersville, will jointly host Troutacular!, a trout festival, simultaneously in both towns on Saturday .

Train derailment along N.C. 197 near the Red Hill Community west of Bakersville, NC, Wednesday, May 27, 2009.

Crews worked to clear wreckage from a train derailment in the western North Carolina mountains.

Twenty cars on a CSX train derailed a little before dawn Wednesday in a rural area west of Bakersville, with some toppling to within feet of the North Toe River.

Law enforcement and state transportation officials are reporting a train derailment in Mitchell County this morning.

Public works director Tracy Pedigo has just checked in on the carpet installers.

Road construction is slowing traffic on Sandy Branch Road near Bakersville, on N.C. 226 near Marion, and on U.S. 19 northeast of Mars Hill and near Weaverville, the state Department of Transportation says.