The Lee Boys

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Food fight competition benefits Watauga Hunger and Health Coalition
There really were no losers in this competition. Students in health and nutrition courses at Appalachian State University and Western Carolina University

Salvation Army mounts annual offensive against High Country poverty
Dana Gall, a social worker for the Salvation Army, began her job on July 14.

What’s cooking on Thanksgiving Day?
HHC offers community meal

Robbins honored by North Carolina Association of Landscape Architects
Clyde Robbins, director of design and construction at Appalachian State University, has received the President’s Council Award

Campus group getting its Rotaract together
A potential campus club is hoping to get its act — well, Rotaract — together and soon become an official community-service, student group.

Ghostly Group
Paranormal conference floats through Green Park Inn

Mayor and local teens team up to clear the air
Boone Mayor Loretta Clawson and the Watauga High Against Tobacco Club are embarking on a joint venture.

Student group assists National Park Service with dam removal
The Appalachian State University Chapter of Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway spent a recent Saturday helping National Park Service employees remove debris from a dismantled dam at Sims Creek.

Crossnore school director wins Reynolds award
The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has honored three North Carolinians with its coveted Nancy Susan Reynolds Award – a farmer from northeastern North Carolina

Group raises Voices to help protect woodlands
Sometimes it takes a little paper to save a few trees.

Partnership for Children's Creative Food Ventures Closing: Victim of Economic Downturn
Just 18 months after the Ashe County Partnership for Children opened the doors of Creative Food Ventures at Family Central, the organization has made the decision to close the operation.