| 111th Year, 23rd Issue | Thursday, January 20, 2000 | Sparta, North Carolina |
County gives $25k more for new fieldThe Alleghany County Board of Commissioners agreed Monday to put an additional $25,000 in contingency funds to be set aside for the construction of a new softball field.AHS changes schedule for improvement planStudents who are failing a class at Alleghany High School will be required to stay an hour later than other students each Wednesday beginning on Jan. 26.Alleghany tobacco money is on holdAlleghany County tobacco farmers may be receiving their share of the Phase II settlement money as late as mid-April. |
First major snowfall ends with 7 or more inches accumulatedSnow began to fall late Monday night and had accumulated to around seven inches by daybreak Tuesday in Sparta, causing schools to close and sending NCDOT workers scrambling.More Spanish-speaking pupils raise need for program fundingThe trend of single male Hispanics moving to the county as seasonal laborers is changing now and entire families are becoming more predominant.Read this week's Reality Check!The Alleghany News |
DOT names county engineer For Alleghany and Yadkin officesThe North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Division of Highways has named Brandon W. Whitaker as county maintenance engineer for Alleghany and Yadkin counties.Election filings listedThree more people have declared their candidacy in local races at the Alleghany County Board of Elections, according to Director of Elections Karen K. Fender.Bristol Compressors celebrates five years in AlleghanyTo commemorate the first compressor that was assembled here five years ago, Bristol Compressors held an open house Sunday for the people in the community to come and observe how the plant operates.
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