Alleghany County News

Voters elected one incumbent and one newcomer to the town's board of commissioners, according to complete but unofficial returns.

Members of the Surry County 4-H Council arrange some of the 1,525 items collected by local 4-H'ers for a food drive.

Lisa Caudill regularly passes David's House on her way to classes at Surry Community College from her home in Alleghany County.

Unemployment rates dropped in 90 North Carolina counties in August, according to statistics released Friday by the state Employment Security Commission.

Medical and dental services in Alleghany, Ashe and Surry counties are among 24 grant recipients getting a portion of $3.8 million in the first phase of Rural Hope, a rural health-care initiative designed to create jobs and improve health care through the construction and expansion of rural health-care facilities, Gov.

The first transfer of inmates from the Wilkes County Jail to the Alleghany County Jail since county commissioners gave Sheriff Dane Mastin the authority to do so happened on Friday.

Ashe County Sheriff James Williams was present when Hammer made the demand, shortly before the body was discovered on Aug.

North Carolina recorded the highest number of home schools on record during the 2008-09 school year, with a presence in all 100 counties, according to an annual state report released Monday.

When Martin Nesbitt got up in the Senate the other day to argue against allowing industrial wind farms atop mountain ridges, I flashed back to a day in Congress in the 1970s when other North Carolinians were arguing for preserving the beauty of the mountains.

Sarah Stevens is a Mount Airy attorney. Back in November, voters in Surry and Alleghany counties elected her to go to Raleigh and represent their interests in the General Assembly.

A N.C. General Assembly member from Surry County is appealing to the governor, and also trying to rally citizens to take a stand against proposed state tax increases.

Conservation Trust of NC protects land on the Blue Ridge Parkway The Conservation Trust for North Carolina purchased a 48.7-acre tract of land on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Cumberland Knob that will eventually be transferred to the National Park Service.

The School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently awarded Ashley Weekes her Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree.

Connelly Springs - Don Clark is in a niche market where customers are often willing to pay more for a product made in America.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that two different tornadoes touched down in Alleghany County, N.C., late last Friday night, May 8. That locality borders on Grayson County in Virginia.

On Friday, May 8, two tornadoes were reported in Alleghany County. One touched down 2.5 miles WNW of Ennice and was an F2 tornado with estimated winds of 110 to 120 mph.

If you were watching J's Breaking News yesterday morning, you saw me post this AccuWeather.com MapSpace radar image to the AccuWeather.com Forums , noting that it showed an unusually strong storm, especially for that time of day .

Neighbors in Alleghany County picked up the pieces after a tornado touched down Friday night in the cover of darkness.

A convicted sex offender is in more trouble with the law after authorities say they found him on school grounds, and the woman he's living with faces charges as an accessory.

Nearly twice as many people in Wilkes are out of work now as were jobless only six months ago, according to figures released by the state Employment Security Commission.