Boone News

The Watauga County Arts Council will hold a "Yart Sale" June 1 to cover costs associated with its move to a new headquarters.

When it comes to craft brewing in Western North Carolina, Asheville leads the way.

Pictured with her canine companion, Debbie DeVita, a beloved Boone photographer, died in June 2010.

On May 21, a Boone couple was arrested by U.S. Marshals and local Police in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on outstanding warrants for manufacturing methamphetamine in Watauga County.

U.S. Marshals and local police in Council Bluffs, Iowa, arrested a Boone couple Tuesday on dozens of outstanding charges related to the manufacture of methamphetamine in Watauga County.

A 26-year-old Boone man had a portion of his ear bitten off when he tried to intervene in a fight near a Boone bar Friday, according to police.

The Kernal and His New Strangers are not just your archetypical country music group that likes to sit around listening to George Jones and drinking beer.

The Boone Town Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a zoning map modification permitting service by a food truck and an outdoor observation bar at Appalachian Mountain Brewery.

Barn quilts, such as that on Ronnie and Donnie Cooper's barn in Brownwood, are the subject of Hands Gallery's front window showcase.

Boone, North Carolina based Samaratin's Purse deployed a team Tuesday morning to help devastated communities in Oklahoma.

The Boone Town Council is scheduled to take action Tuesday on requested conditional district zoning map modifications that would allow for an outdoor bar and service from a food truck at Appalachian Mountain Brewery.

The Watauga County Board of Commissioners will hold three public hearings Tuesday to seek input on important topics: the proposed county budget, the potential abolishment of the board of social services and the Department of Transportation's secondary roads program.

Savor this -- Boone recently landed among the top five cities in the nation on Nielsen's annual Restaurant Growth Index.

Forty-five bicyclists participated Wednesday in the 2013 Ride of Silence in Boone, which honors cyclists who have been injured or killed while sharing the roads with motorists.

The Hospitality House of Boone will host a hoop house construction workshop on Wednesday, May 22, from 2 to 4 p.m. Anthony Flaccavento, a farmer and consultant from Abingdon, Va., will lead the workshop, which is sponsored by Heifer International and Blue Ridge Seeds of Change.

Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham and president of Boone-based Christian international relief organization Samaritan's Purse, said in a letter to President Barack Obama Tuesday he believes his organization was among the conservative groups targeted by the Internal Revenue Service.

At 8 years old, C.J. Burford of Walkertown has embarked on a greater adventure than some people will undertake in their lifetimes.

To supplement its current list of musical offerings, Boone's Jones House Community Center will begin offering free public pickin' parties in June.

Following the discovery of some building-related issues at its new home, the Watauga Arts Council has delayed the official opening of the Blue Ridge ArtSpace until Thursday, May 23.

Art in the Park, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012, now begins its second half-century this weekend.