Wilkes County News

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.

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.

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.

A North Carolina man disappeared early Friday after his boat was struck by a barge on Watts Bar Reservoir.

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.

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.

Deputies say a Burnsville man stole a physician's wallet from his office and used stolen credit cards to buy items at area stores.

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

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

The tornado warning for Northwestern Wilkes County and portions of Ashe County has now expired.

Most of us love to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, even when they are not our own.

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.

Donna Reeves was worried about her daughter Casey's drug use. "I told her, 'I don't want to get that phone call somebody's found my daughter dead,'" Reeves said.

As we've reported numerous times on 3WC News, deaths by drug oversode are climbing in the county at an alarming rate.

State legislators have no choice but to cut, or at least scale back, numerous programs as they hammer out their new budget.

Showers and thunderstorms served as an alarm clock for most Sunday morning as severe storms with heavy rain, lightning and 60 mph winds rolled through parts of Alleghany, Grayson, Surry and Wilkes County.

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.

As pressures build on businesses everywhere to do more with less, a North Carolina beekeeping supply company is being recognized for changes that allowed it to add $2 million in sales.

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.

Rescue crews evacuated several families from rising waters in Wilkes County. The rescue efforts took place in a mobile home community off Germantown Road in Moravian Falls.