112th Year, 46th Issue

Thursday, June 28, 2001

Sparta, North Carolina

Vacant home destroyed The cause of a fire that consumed an older wood frame home on Murphy Bend Road early last Thursday morning is being investigated by the Alleghany County Sheriff's Department. Blue Cross inks deal with AMH Alleghany Memorial Hospital entered into a new three-year contract with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina, according to a news release from the hospital. Read this week's Reality Check!	Budget plan ready for public hearing With one dissenting voice, the Alleghany County Board of Commissioners agreed to maintain a five-cent tax rate increase through the public hearing, which was slated for Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. Tourist spending has slight increase here In 2000, the North Carolina High Country's tourism expenditures totaled $340.07 million, an increase of almost $16 million over 1999, according to statistics recently released by Travel Industry of America for the six-county region of the N.C. High Country Host. The Alleghany News Over a Century of Service to Alleghany County	Test the air first, radon expert notes Recent reports of high levels of radon in Alleghany County and the surrounding mountain counties has caused some degree of alarm, according to N.C. Cooperative Extension Radon Educator Susan E. Pope. Fireworks planned for July 4 Festivities are planned in Alleghany and Grayson counties to celebrate the 225th anniversary of America's Declaration of Independence. Broken Ground A growing church which has been using borrowed facilities has begun work on its own permanent home.
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