Judge Matthew Rupp ordered Horizon 30 to stop mining and removing rock from its site on N.C. Highway 197 in Poplar after a hearing at the Watauga County Courthouse Monday morning. The ...

The Spruce Pine Town Council met last week to discuss water and sewer funding, among other town business items. Water/sewer grant The council v ...

Sarah Atkins seatkins05@gmail.com “Our wildlife and communities are not for sale,” said Jeanne Miraglia at a public hear ...

Friday, July 11 was a particularly busy day at Penland’s U.S. Post Office, as artists and instructors leaving the Penland School of Craft’s latest two-week session descended on the building wit ...

The Spruce Pine Town Council voted 3-1 last week to approve the first reading of a new policy on employee compensation. The new policy will be subject to a second reading and a second ...

During the protracted miners’ strike in West Virginia’s Cabin Creek and Paint Creek region in 1913, a company storekeeper and ...

Mitchell County Recreation Director Brock Duncan (center in purple) goes over the details of the proposed recreation complex in Bakersville as a crowd listens intently Tuesday, May 31 at the ...

SPRUCE PINE, N.C.— Danny Ray Biddix, age 64, of Parkwood Hill Heights in Spruce Pine, passed away on Sunday, January 31, 2021 at the Memorial Campus of Mission Hospitals in Asheville.

The Mitchell County Board of Commissioners during its regular meeting this past week confirmed Bakersville resident Allen Cook as the county’s newest manager.

The Mitchell County Board of Commissioner re-appointed several county officials in its first meeting of the 2025-26 fiscal year recently.

MOCKSVILLE N.C. – Mrs. Evelyn “Sally” Fay Transou Golliher, passed away peacefully at her home on Sunday, September 13, 2020, at the age of 91.

BAKESRVILLE — Marian Greenlee McNeill, age 97, of Bakersville, NC, passed away on November 2, 2022 at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine, NC.