Wilkesboro News

Aword that the news media have used prodigiously during coverage of Michael Jackson's death has prompted letters from two readers.

Though federal stimulus money is being put into government-subsidized housing programs, little of the money is likely to come to the High Country.

Tom Dooley-A Wilkes County Legend. People nationwide have been fascinated and intrigued with the Tom Dooley story for over a century.

Just south of Wilkesboro in Moravian Falls is an operation that defies a number of widely held assumptions about North Carolina business during the worst economic recession in decades: manufacturing in the state is dead; small business is struggling, cutting back on employees and postponing expansion; and an off-the-beaten path location means ...

No charges will be filed against a N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission law enforcement officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of a Wilkes County turkey hunter on April 11, according to a July 2 release by the commission.

Over three years of anxious waiting by residents of Ashe, Allegheny and Wilkes Counties was at last ended when Allegheny County Sheriff's Department Detective Lieutenant Tim Duncan placed 47 year-old Sandra W. Royal under arrest and charged the Wilkes County resident with multiple counts of embezzlement of mail.

Bob Powell was armed with a slingshot that dark night when he went to do surveillance on a reported moonshine operation off Old N.C. 60 in Wilkes County.

Senator Steve Goss announced today that the Town of Wilkesboro has been awarded a grant of $26,650 to fund a Water System Audit and Leak Detection Study.

With budget negotiations in Raleigh in full-swing, N.C. Senator Steve Goss took some time on the morning of Saturday, June 20, to talk to constituents about the current crisis that North Carolina is facing and listen to questions and concerns.

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The Wilkes Playmakers will present its outdoor productions of Moonshine & Thunder, The Junior Johnson Story and Tom Dooley, A Wilkes County Legend at the Forest's Edge Amphitheatre in Forth Hamby Park, South Recreation Road on U.S. 421 N., Wilkesboro.

West Iredell High School Resource Officer Dallas Hicks may not think there's anything special about the way he approaches his job.

State Senator Steve Goss today announced that he will hold a District forum on Saturday, June 20 in Wilkesboro.

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

Jun. 14--FAYETTEVILLE -- Soldiers often say they serve in the military to make a difference in other people's lives.

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.

Morgan Wall/The News Kellar Musser takes a snooze as mom Virginia plays with her band along with Tricia Spencer and daughter, Ruby Yother.

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