Banner Elk News

Every day until December 1, customers of Papa's Pizza To Go, located at 3045 Tynecastle Highway in Banner Elk and 456 Hardees Alley in Newland, can help neighbors and receive a free order of Killerstix worth about $5 - both at the same time.

Performance students Kadey Ballard, Austin Perry and Laurel Wilde take part in workshops to help develop a script for the Interactive Theatre Project.

Winter's coming, and it's wise to watch your back. Twice this fall, while descending the 22 stone steps from our house's front door to the street-side parking space, I've narrowly missed being bonked in the head by whizzing acorns.

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In a chilly championship race last Saturday at the 32nd annual Woolly Worm Festival in Banner Elk, racers used straws to blow warm air at the woolly worms in hopes the heat would make them move faster.

Early voting in both Watauga and Avery counties began on October 15 and ends on Saturday, October 31.

Melissa Reaves sings on stage during a performance. Reaves will be one of the many musicians volunteering her time and talents to make this event a success.

A woolly worm trained by a Chapel Hill boy won the races and the privilege of predicting this winter's weather at an annual festival in Banner Elk Saturday.

Lees-McRae College Campus Recreation will again host the annual Turkey Trot 5K, taking place this year on Saturday, November 21, at 10:00 a.m. at the Lees-McRae College Williams Gymnasium in Banner Elk.

On Monday, October 12, Boone Mayor Loretta Clawson administered the oath of office to Dana Bruce Crawford, Boone's new chief of police.

The two biggest autumn festivals in the High Country - the Woolly Worm Festival and the Valle Country Fair - fall on the same weekend each year.

Hundreds of people have visited St. Paul's Episcopal Church today to see the coffin and pay their respects to Franklin's Unknown Soldier, who will be reburied in a ceremony Saturday at Rest Haven Cemetery.

Dana Bruce Crawford, a native of Avery County and 20-year law enforcement veteran, will take over the position of chief of the Boone Police Department on Monday, October 12.

Story by Justin Grimes Banner Elk-a town ranked fourth in North Carolina for its percentage of commuters walking to work-recently completed an attractive boardwalk along Mill Pond, connecting the town's 1.5-mile greenway trail to downtown.

Les Broussard co-owns The Banner Elk Cafe with his wife Cindy. An avid sports enthusiast, Broussard heads up several Sugar Mountain Adult Race League ski teams in the winter.

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Boone Mayor Loretta Clawson visited with Page Bryant and her husband, artist Scott Guynup of Waynesville, during their visit last Friday, September 25, to Dancing Moon Bookstore on King Street in Boone.

Tying in with the Autumn at Oz celebration on Beech Mountain this weekend and the 70th anniversary of the MGM film The Wizard of Oz , the 2009 Homecoming theme at Lees-McRae College is "There's No Place Like Lees-McRae." Homecoming weekend events are scheduled throughout the campus this Friday to Sunday, October 2 to 4. A Homecoming pep rally and ...

The Greater Avery Tour de Art is here to stay with two more events planned for 2009.

The nip of cool mountain air reminds many that the annual Woolly Worm Festival is just around the corner.