Boone News

Town of Boone officials told citizens during the June 23 meeting that, if the project was approved, the pump station located off Brownwood Road would be designed to look like a barn-complete with a barn quilt-set back from the river, helping ease aesthetic concerns.

July has the Fourth, but Friday has the First. The Downtown Boone Art Crawl hits the streets July 2. Scheduled for the Friday of each month, the Art Crawl sees area galleries and businesses open their doors in celebration of art, community and a combination of the two, oftentimes served alongside refreshments.

A gift that will provide more than $1 million from the late Norman Cheek and his family to the Appalachian State University Foundation has established a scholarship fund that will be awarded to three high school seniors, one each from Watauga, Ashe and Caldwell counties who enroll as freshmen at Appalachian State University.

Larceny of a dog was reported at a residence on the 200 block of Locust Lane in Boone.

Good news, Boone residents and businesses. The Town of Boone curbside recycling program now accepts pasteboard! Perhaps you just pondered, "Well, what the heck is pasteboard ?" Pasteboard includes cereal, soda, beer, dry food, office supply and shoe boxes, as well as toilet paper and paper towel rolls and brown paper bags.

Alt. country band Possum Jenkins will headline Brewer's Big Bad Birthday Benefit Bonanza this Friday, July 3, at Boone Saloon.

Matthew Alexander is working this summer at the Watauga County Public Library thanks to NC Summer Jobs, a youth employment initiative funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and administered through the Workforce Investment Act.

The King Bees will perform at Friday's Concert on the Lawn at the Jones House in Downtown Boone.

Brian Randolph Wood Jr., 27, of 283 Vannoy Lane, Boone, was served with a warrant on a charge of harassing phone calls.

Toshiba's mobile offerings for education include its newest mini NB205 for note-taking and laptop training in early grades.

Watauga County Crimestoppers requests the public's help in identifying the person responsible for the following crime : Sometime between the dates of June 14 at 4:30 p.m. and June 15 at 7:30 a.m., a white 16-foot-long enclosed rrailer was taken from a business located in the 9000 block of Highway 105 South.

The town of Boone's proposal to put a water intake plant on the New River that could draw as much as 4 million gallons of water daily must be carefully scrutinized.

Ceara State Congressman Francisco Caminha will lead a delegation of Brazilians to the Appalachian State University campus in July.

Criminal damage to property by vandalism was reported at 8:58 a.m. on the 400 block of Queen Street.

As part of the town of Boone's ongoing commitment to improving and sustaining the environment and community, the town of Boone Public Works Department announces that as of July 1 it will be expanding the town's recycling program to include pasteboard in the town's curbside recycling pickups.

Twenty-two people spoke, some angrily, and not one was in favor of the proposed water intake system on the New River in Todd.

The military is not only a force for national defense, it's also a power in the economic trenches.

Boone Town council members and Ashe County commissioners met jointly last night to hear concerns and take questions from the public about Boone's proposed water intake along the New River in the Brownwood area.

Since NCDOT informed several businesses along the section of East and West King Street between Highway 194 and Coffee Street in Boone of right-of-way acquisitions for the Highway 421 widening project, owners have been living on borrowed time, trying to go about business as usual before either choosing to close or finding a new location.

Officers responded to a report of a person disturbing the peace. The victim reported a person causing him/her fear with a knife and cutting the tire on a vehicle.