Bart Hayes News Today

Douglas “Dougo” Giles Bombard was born on Dec. 6, 1932, at the old hospital in Saranac Lake. He was the second child of five, of Alfred Douglas Bombard,

The North Wilkesboro commissioners on Dec. 8 approved a new nonresidential building ordinance, despite opposition from four local businessmen. The ordinance applies to buildings and other structures in the town’s central business and general business districts and establishes minimum standards of maintenance, sanitation and safety. If those minimum standards are not met, the ordinance gives the town the authority to call for a repair, closing or demolition of the non-compliant buildings or...