Todd News

Harrison Construction, which holds the mining permit for the Waynesville Quarry, is requesting a permit modification to extend the quarry boundaries on Allens Creek Road.

Foreign languages were again the draw for a standing-room crowd that spilled out the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board's meeting room last week.

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.

The Watauga-Ashe-Wilkes Scholarship Board honored its 2013 recipients and their families with a dinner banquet at Sagebrush Steakhouse in Wilkesboro, NC on Thursday, April 11, 2013.

In an attempt to share the Todd community with the rest of the world, the Todd community and the Todd Mercantile have created websites to disperse information about the area.

Miss Caroline Wolcott Barber and Mr. Todd Alan Williams were married on May 11, 2013 at 5:30 in the evening at White Memorial Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, NC.

U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan met with Whitney Christensen, Government Affairs Manager for the N.C. Restaurant and Lodging Association, and Wynn Davis, managing partner of Mac's Speed Shop on Friday morning.

Eight Surry residents hit the road and headed east on Interstate 40 this week, but rather than a fun trip to the coast their destination was the state capital to seek economic help for the county.

After stumbling at the end of 2012, the regional economy has begun to regain its footing in the first quarter of the year, according to the Western North Carolina Economic Index, compiled by the Center for Economic Research and Policy Analysis at Appalachian State University.

After months of delays due to the discovery of wetlands on its 640-acre site here, Ashley Furniture broke ground April 17 on the next phase of what will be an $80 million, 3.8 million square- foot manufacturing and distribution center.

There will soon be a new place to grab a pint of Guinness, a Galway steak sandwich and a Blarney burger.

Authorities in Watauga County are trying to determine who was responsible for the apparent discarded methamphetamine lab discovered earlier this week.

The Boone Water Use Committee on Wednesday agreed by straw poll to recommend that the Boone Town Council seek written confirmations from the town of Blowing Rock and Watauga County about the entities' interests in future water allocations from Boone's water system.

U.S. Rep. Mel Watt, left and U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, talk with Siemens worker Jackie Bray on a tour of the new 450,000 square foot gas turbine production plant in Charlotte, N.C. Wednesday, January 25, 2012.

Michael Todd Chastain, 48, of the 1000 block of Stony Point Road near Kings Mountain, was charged with seven counts of failing to pay file/pay income taxes.

The Small Business Center of Bladen Community College will offer a free seminar "Double Your Contacts, Double Your Income: Networking Secrets of the Pros." The seminar will be held Thursday, May 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Bladen County Public Library located at 111 N. Cypress Street.

TODD SUMLIN - tsumlin@charlotteobserver.com WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will tap Charlotte, N.C., mayor Anthony Foxx as the new secretary of transportation on Monday, a White House official said Sunday, speaking anonymously because the announcement is not yet official.

The NAACP released the following statements in response to the NC House Vote on House Bill 589.

Charlotte designer Kevin Vain, a teenager, is surrounded by models showing off looks from his collection.