Burnsville News

A graduate of Asheville High and Western Carolina University, she has been with the bank for three years and serves as manager of the Reynolds office and as a commercial lending officer.

Asheville's online community will gather 7-11 p.m. today in the Pump Gallery at the Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts St., in the River Arts District for the BlogAsheville awards ceremony, this year called 'Spookyblogapaloozananny.' The event will feature beer, comedy, a raffle and live music by Albatross Party and Its Elephants.

BURNSVILLE Quilt Trails of Western North Carolina is sponsoring its first road rally, Thread Through the Mountains, on Nov.

Rain and cold didn't dampen attendance at weekend festivals. People rambled through Burnsville for the Burnsville Town Scamper, which included a 5K race.

What : The sixth annual Town Square Scamper and Fall Foliage Stroll. When : Starts at 9 a.m. Saturday to benefit the Yancey County Schools Foundation.

Bearwallow Road in Henderson County is closed until tomorrow while crews replace a bridge over Clear Creek.

The temperatures are predicted to drop this coming week in Middle Tennessee, and thoughts will be turning to scenic drives in the mountains and sipping warm apple cider by the fire in the evening.

BURNSVILLE, N.C. -- The crowd went wild, roaring and cheering as the announcer called out Jan Ray's name as a homecoming queen nominee.

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is warning a photograph of a mountain lion purported to be taken in western North Carolina is actually from Texas.

The daughter of a North Carolina man who killed himself after fatally shooting his neighbor and wounding his estranged wife says her father became violent after cancer treatment.

A Yancey County man who fatally shot himself in the head after killing his neighbor and seriously wounding his estranged wife had become violent in recent weeks while undergoing cancer treatment, his daughter said.

When I met Brian Sonofkus at his Burnsville farm, the tune from a popular TV show stuck in my head: "Green acres is the place for me " The nine-acre farm rests on creek-side bottomland that's been farmed for decades.

Road crews are still fixing Dairy Road in McDowell County after a beaver dam burst and undermined the road.

The North Carolina Mountain State Fair is up and running this weekend at the WNC Agricultural Center, near the Asheville Regional Airport.

Part of a public art project in North Carolina made of ceramic will be replaced with a concrete version because vandals stole, destroyed or damaged the originals.

Four Western North Carolina arts programs and projects were awarded government grants for the 2009-2010 fiscal year in a press conference Wednesday held by the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.

A Burnsville man is charged with murder in the slaying of a victim who was missing for more than a week before his body was found Tuesday down a rocky embankment.

In my former life as an investigative reporter, I saw enough of humanity's dark side to last several lifetimes: Would-be Madoffs, latter-day Elmer Gantrys, politicians who put themselves first.

Route 19, formerly the major Chicago-to-Florida thoroughfare, passes through Spruce Pine, where author Gloria Houston's father, James Myron Houston, had built a gas station and store in 1937.

The StereoFidelics are back home and playing at the Grey Eagle Music Hall, 185 Clingman Ave.