Marijuana legalization is a tough row to hoe, but we in the mountains deserve the opportunity to voice our opinions before governmental big-wi…
The coronavirus pandemic has changed much of our day-to-day lives since early spring, but two things that haven’t changed are the need for foo…
If there is one group of Americans who can rise above the current fray of our divided and partisan country it is the members of our nation’s m…
You’ve done your civic duty: You voted. Now our duty shifts, and we look toward the needs of our community.
Typically during this time of the year in this space we offer our annual tips and suggestions for a safe Halloween: mask visibility, dark stre…
Finally, it seems, local Republicans and Democrats are finding common ground. On both fronts, their campaign signs are being stolen from front…
Thumbs-up: to finding a solution to help fund a vital High Country organization. OASIS’s largest and most popular fundraiser of the year, Midn…
Conflicts of interest arise on political boards — from commissioners, to aldermen, to councils — when competing goals can make it difficult fo…
Election Day is about a month away, but before then, many of us will have already cast ballots.
There were more than 240 pedestrian and 19 bicyclist deaths in North Carolina in 2019 — 15 percent of all traffic fatalities on the state’s ro…
The text from a Marine sergeant war veteran came to an editor in the Ashe Post & Times offices on Sept. 11, and it read simply, “Never forget.”
Many students today — certainly those of high school age and younger — and even many at Appalachian State University and Wilkes Community Coll…
Something for each of us to reflect upon this Labor Day: In the 19th century, a typical employee worked 12 hours per day, seven days per week.
A brushing scheme planted throughout the High Country is beginning to take root, and cooperative extension offices are concerned.
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For each one of our students, parents, teachers and staff members, the first day of school in the fall of 2020 will be unlike any other. But, …
Thumbs-up: to the work provided by the small staff and vast partners of the High Country United Way as it announces $100,000 in grant funding …
Ashe County Sheriff B. Phil Howell’s endgame of getting his shift deputies into “zones” — a plan that has worked successfully in other rural c…
Certainly, this year’s high school graduation will be unlike any other ever held in Ashe County.
The West Jefferson Planning Board does not possess the authority to effect town changes by itself. But, in its leading role as a recommendatio…
Those who elected to hold public fireworks displays this year called for more than a bit of creativity, and counties from Ashe to Avery and al…
Public fireworks will be fewer and farther between this July 4, and even at where they will be held many will opt out for the year because of …
By the end of this year, projections indicate that about 180,000 people 65 and older will be classified as having Alzheimer’s Disease in North…
Few of us in the High Country can fail to notice almost daily a creek, stream, river or other body of flowing water. Whether on our morning dr…
With municipal July 4 fireworks canceled from the High Country to the shore, many of us are planning even now to prepare our own celebrations …
If you are healthy and feeling well, the American Red Cross has a need for you — and your blood.
North Carolina has an open meetings law guaranteeing that the public have access to the transparent workings of our public bodies — elected or…
We will never be able to social-distance COVID-19 out of existence — the attempt to do so is neither practical nor possible.
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