Purlear News

Energy efficient mountain cabin with full quarters up and down. First floor has 2 bedrooms, loft, kit/dining/living area.

MLS Number: 54757 List Price: $164,900 Property Type: Residential City: Purlear State: NC Subdivision: Buck Mountain Middle School: West Wilkes High School: West Wilkes Bedrooms: 3 Full Baths: 2 Half Baths: 1 Remarks: Like new cabin located in the gated community of Buck Mtn.

This would be the perfect main house or a vacation home. Just a little over a mile from Cielo Falls.

Margaret Bess PAGELAND, S.C. - Margaret Oleen Bess, 56, died Thursday . Funeral will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Gordon Funeral Service of Monroe, with burial in the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church cemetery.

Authorities estimate the man who slid off a Millers Creek-area road early Saturday and slid into a home was traveling about 45 miles an hour in the 35-mile zone.

With one fell swoop, Wilkes County deputies have cleared a large chunk of the outstanding cases of burglaries and home thefts in the Purlear and Millers Creek areas the past six months or so.

Led by Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame member David Johnson, Wilkes County band Dixie Dawn will return to Blowing Rock Saturday for the band's annual performance at Mountain Home Music.

Authorities have now charged the man sought shortly after a stabbing Saturday night that seriously injured a Purlear man.

Pardon me for saying thisa but only in Wilkes County is the best way to lead into this next story.

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.