Vicky Grimes News Today

Mart Mayor Robert Kaiser and interim city secretary Lambert Little resigned Monday and city's finance director Vicky Grimes was fired.

In a garden that grows upon a ribbon of old family farmland in the mountains of Ashe County, dreams are harvested alongside vegetables. The garden is a vision nurtured by Dr. Amanda Stroud, a member of the ECU School of Dental Medicine’s inaugural Class of 2015 and dental director for AppHealthCare in northwestern North Carolina. Even during her dental school days, Stroud had a clear image in her mind’s eye of a dental office that would provide oral health care — and so much more...