The Ashe Post & Times is regularly honored annually with several awards from the North Carolina Press Association, and this year is no dif…
It’s been a long road, but the end is still a ways off and now is the time to be more vigilant than ever.
Nursing and assisted-living facilities have been the scenes of some the most negatively affected populations by the global pandemic during the…
Despite the pandemic, with a decrease in vehicular traffic, new data from the North Carolina Department of Transportation shows that traffic d…
It may be premature to state that well-begun will be well-done, but we can hope.
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Reports of accidents and wrecks on our county roadways are unfortunate occurrences that could be inflicted on any driver at any time. But, the…
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It may be a new year, but the High Country and the rest of our nation is only yet creeping toward the levels of COVID-19 vaccination that will…
As we publish the first print newspaper of the New Year, it’s appropriate that we in the Mountain Times Publications family — Watauga Democrat…
Environmental concerns are no secret to the High Country. As we progress from once-tiny communities to hubs of tourism, second-homes, higher e…
May I tell you a bit about the pioneering Campbells of eastern North Carolina?
Is the U.S. Supreme Court going to put college athletics out of business?
Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial S…
Saturday morning, I had my groceries paid for by an anonymous person for the second time in six weeks whoever this person(s) is or are please …
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The High Country tragically has not been immune to the harm effects of carbon monoxide gas, and especially during this time of the year the No…
Our local elections are over, and now the work begins for those who have been elected to serve.
Trees have always been big in the High Country, but this year they’re bigger than ever.
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.”
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