Lansing News

While the local-foods movement has primarily been focused on garden produce, a cluster of farms has launched an all-natural meat cooperative.

No major changes occurred following the official canvass of votes Tuesday by the Ashe County Board of Elections.

Unlike the long ballots in West Jefferson and Lansing, there isn't a lot of competition this year for seats on the Jefferson Board on Aldermen.

Voters in the Towns of Lansing, Jefferson and West Jefferson visited the polls on Tuesday to determine who will represent the towns for the next two, or four, years.

Believe it or not, the holiday season is off to a start in the High Country, with several holiday-themed events taking place in the next two weeks.

Upsets in the municipal elections in West Jefferson and Lansing saw incumbents ousted by newcomers while Jefferson incumbents, with no challengers, were returned to their seats on the boards of aldermen.

Two former Wal-Mart employees are facing felony embezzlement charges following an internal investigation by the corporation which was then handed over to the West Jefferson Police Department.

Community Haunted House: A haunted house continues at 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday at the old Lansing School on N.C. 194 North in Lansing.

The Ashe County Board of Education adopted a policy Monday evening that will prohibit registered sex offenders from stepping foot onto county school property unless given special clearance.

It was only three months ago when Shane Duncan replaced senior alderman Dot Shupe on the Lansing Board of Alderman.

Star-News columnist Brett Friedlander kept an audience of a dozen enthralled Monday night with talk about baseball, movies and his book "Chasing Moonlight," the true story of North Carolina native Archibald "Doc" Graham, whose character made it into the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams." For those who came in late Graham was the older brother of ...

There's a new badge in town for the Ashe County Sheriff's Department as Tony Blevins, a former U.S. Marine and veteran of The Persian Gulf War, has joined the force as a deputy.

Greensboro's Holy Ghost Tent Revival will be one of more than a dozen acts that will converge on the small town of Lansing in Ashe County for the 4th annual Ola Belle Reed Homecoming Festival.

Greensboro's Holy Ghost Tent Revival will be one of more than a dozen acts that will converge on the small town of Lansing in Ashe County for the 4th annual Ola Belle Reed Homecoming Festival.

In an effort to continue to raise awareness about the New River watershed, two local water, land, and wildlife protection advocates will undertake a near month long journey that will cover the American Heritage River in its entirety.

On Monday, June 29, the Ashe County Board of Commissioners passed the anticipated 2009-10 county budget, with very few changes from the previous year.

Shane Duncan sat in the back of Lansing Town Hall on Monday, June 8, ready to take his oath of office as the newest member of the Lansing Board of Aldermen.

A shooting on Mulatto Mountain Road in West Jefferson almost turned fatal on the night of Thursday, May 21, when the 911 Center received a call at approximately 11:42 p.m. regarding "shots being fire into an occupied dwelling," said Ashe County Sheriff James Williams.

The late-night theft of two vehicles from G & S Auto Sales in West Jefferson led to the arrest of three local teenagers on Tuesday, April 21.