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NEWLAND — The Avery County Board of Education received updates on student test scores during its monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 9. The scores revealed that Avery students, like other students regionally and statewide, have struggled this past semester to varying degrees as a result of the challenging times. Superintendent Dr. Dan Brigman started off the evening by reflecting on the events and changes that took place a year ago during his superintendent’s report. “This week is a very special week for school here in Avery County and across North Carolina. This was the last wee...

AVERY COUNTY — An innovative partnership between Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink and the state of North Carolina is bringing satellite internet service to two rural NC counties through a program that could likely have impacts in Avery, Ashe and Watauga counties in the not too distant future. The program, known as the Satellite Internet Technologies for Student Connectivity Pilot, will provide students in the Swain County and Hyde County school systems access to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s, (SpaceX) Starlink internet service. Funding for the prog...

FOND DU LAC - A Fond du Lac man convicted in connection with the largest seizure of methamphetamine in the city's history will spend 14 years in prison.  Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Wirtz sentenced Adrian Irby Friday for convictions of manufacturing/delivering methamphetamine on or near certain places as a repeat offender, conspiracy to commit possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine at or near a school, and possession of a firearm by a felon as a repeater. "Irby was a significant meth dealer, and this sentence sends the message that the delivery of methamphe...

NEWLAND — The Avery County vaccination effort continues to sweep the state’s eligible populations, with those who are 65 and older, public school employees and now daycare workers currently eligible for the vaccine. First doses of the Moderna vaccines are available for the aforementioned group at the Avery County Agricultural Extension at 661 Vale Road above Ingles in Newland on Friday, March 5. Those would like to receive the vaccine must make an appointment by calling the Avery County vaccine call center at (828) 733-8273. The call center is available daily from 9 to 11 a.m. Patie...

NEWLAND — Perhaps it is fitting during an ongoing pandemic that the winning word for the 43rd annual and most unique Avery County Schools Spelling Bee event on record, held