Last Updated on December 20, 2024 8:39 pm Below is a list of holiday closings. The list will be updated as needed. Watauga County Schools will early release on Friday December 20 and are on break until January 6, 2025. Ashe County Schools will early release on Friday December 20 and are on break until …

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Last Updated on December 20, 2024 8:38 pm (RALEIGH) Governor-elect Josh Stein today announced that he has launched the Rebuilding Western North Carolina Advisory Committee to help advise his work to address the communities affected by Hurricane Helene. The Committee is made up of leaders of all types from across the region who are closely …

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Last Updated on December 19, 2024 7:28 pm WEST JEFFERSON, N.C. – Sheriff B. Phil Howell announces the arrest of 32-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Winebarger of Deep Gap after Sheriff Deputies discover Fentanyl and Methamphetamine. On November 23rd, 2024, Ashe 911 Dispatch received a welfare check on a parked vehicle in West Jefferson. Sheriffs Office Deputies …

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Last Updated on December 20, 2024 6:44 am URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGENational Weather Service Blacksburg VA625 AM EST Fri Dec 20 2024 NCZ001-018-VAZ007-009-015-WVZ042-043-508-201900-/O.CON.KRNK.WW.Y.0015.241220T1800Z-241221T1800Z/Ashe-Watauga-Tazewell-Smyth-Grayson-Mercer-Summers-WesternGreenbrier-Including the cities of Tazewell, West Jefferson, Hinton,Quinwood, Troutdale, Bluefield, Rainelle, Boone, Independence,Marion, Volney, Hix, Flat Top, Duo, and Whitetop625 AM EST Fri Dec 20 2024 …WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT …

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Last Updated on December 19, 2024 5:13 pm NCZ033-200600-/O.NEW.KGSP.WW.Y.0010.241220T1800Z-241221T1800Z/Avery-Including the cities of Ingalls, Newland, and Banner Elk509 PM EST Thu Dec 19 2024 …WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM FRIDAY TO 1 PM ESTSATURDAY… WHAT…Snow expected. Total snow accumulations up to 3 inches.Winds gusting as high as 45 mph. WHERE…Avery County, generally along …

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Last Updated on December 19, 2024 9:59 am Sugar Grove– On Wednesday, December 18, at approximately 6:15 p.m., the NC State Highway Patrol responded to and investigated a fatal collision in Watauga County on US 321 near Frank Hodges Drive.  During rainy conditions, a 1999 Ford Ranger traveling west on US 321 struck a pedestrian who was …

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Last Updated on December 20, 2024 8:07 am “US 421 between Boone and Mountain City is OFFICIALLY OPEN!” That's the caption Maymead Materials lead off with in a social media post. “Earlier this week crews began paving the final sections of roadway and TDOT officially announced it open today. This has been a monumental undertaking …

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Last Updated on December 18, 2024 3:57 pm CHARLOTTE, N.C. – James Matthew Johnson, 36, of Glade Valley, N.C., was sentenced to 22years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release today for producing child sexual abusematerial (CSAM), announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of NorthCarolina. Johnson was also ordered to …

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