North Wilkesboro News

Ita s that time of year for yard and garden work and it seems some feel the best way to accomplish those tasks is to steal lawn and garden equipment.

If you find you're on a hayride to a pumpkin patch or you're a senior citizen line dancing with your granddaughter and you're near Sugar Grove, NC, it is a safe bet that Jackie Cornette had a hand in creating the event.

Earlier this year, Nathan Childers started making plans and asking churches and individuals to support the TnT Christian Concert Series.

Three Virginia men are out on bond, charged locally with buying chemicals used to make methamphetamine.

An investigation has determined the cause of a fire that resulted in heavy damage to a North Wilkesboro home was accidental.

William Oliver Swofford was a big singing star in the summer of 1969. Swofford went by the stage name Oliver and died in 2000.

A 17-year-old boy was pulled from the Reddies River in North Wilkesboro Saturday afternoon, after he became cold and lost the strength to swim against the current.

Capt. Moaed Qasin Mohammed , a company commander, and his driver, Sgt. Saefe Fadhel Nassir , both assigned to 1st Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, take a look under the hood of a Humvee as Sgt.

Eric Ellis drove an asphalt truck for the N.C. Department of Transportation yesterday to help fix a road that had washouts from the heavy rains.

At Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, a family can sit in a softly lit viewing room and watch through a window as their loved one enters the cremation chamber.

By this time next week, analog television will be a thing of the past. TV stations are stepping up their efforts to make sure people are ready.

The state will seek the death penalty against a man and wife from Thurmond charged with first-degree murder in the May 2002 death of a man from the Speedway Road.

By all accounts, this May was the wettest May ever recorded in the High Country.

Good news on the unemployment front. Wilkes County's jobless rate fell from 13.8 percent in March to 12.5 percent in April, the first decrease since last fall.

A driver was injured when he collided with a school bus yesterday morning on Wiles Ridge Road about 10 and a half miles north of North Wilkesboro.

The Yadkin River Greenway Council is sponsoring Greenway Day tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lowe's Park at Rivers Edge.

A manhunt in Wilkes County Thursday ended just before 2 p.m. after authorities arrested four men who had been eluding deputies.

Historic Downtown North Wilkesboro, Inc. has been designated an accredited National Main Street Program for meeting the commercial district revitalization performance standards set by the National Trust Main Street Center.A According to a news release, HDTNW joins 725 Main Street Programs nationally and 18 in North Carolina.

It's a Saturday in the spring, which means there must be a festival going on somewhere hereabouts.

About 20 North Carolina judges have not agreed to take the same pay cut that state employees must absorb, in spite of a request by Gov.