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Firefighters were busy with numerous wildfires last week and through the weekend, including three that burned hundreds of acres of forestland in the Elk Creek Valley of Wilkes and Watauga

For those in Boone, and in next door Deep Gap, it can be easy to take for granted the talent of the late, great hometown music icon Doc Watson —

Who knew that 24 steel strings could lift a thousand people? No, wait a minute – T. Michael Coleman brought a backless banjo, so those five made it 29. At

DEEP GAP — Multiple crews battled a 4.5-acre grass fire in Deep Gap after an RV caught on fire and spread to the hill along U.S. 421 Sunday afternoon.

DEEP GAP — H.S. Greene was raised in eastern Watauga County and has never left. He spent 30 years in the construction business, and has reinvented his primary source of

Following up on a recent column about Nathan Horton and his road from Wilkesboro, through Deep Gap and what now is Boone to Tennessee in the early 1800s, there is

Singer-songwriter Sarah McQuaid will be kicking off a 3-month, 59-show autumn USA and UK tour with high-profile hometown shows in both West Cornwall, England, where she’s lived since 2007, and Chicago, where she spent most of her childhood.

The Blue Ridge Music Center is presenting a tribute to Doc Watson with the show “Doc at 100” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, in the outdoor amphitheater.

BOONE — The town of Boone will celebrate 100 years of Doc Watson on Aug. 18 and 19.

WEST JEFFERSON — Construction is continuing on U.S. 221 between Deep Gap and Jefferson.