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113th Year, 42nd Issue Thursday, May 30, 2002 Sparta, North Carolina

Principal search continues

Alleghany County school officials are closer to selecting a new principal for Alleghany High School, but a formal announcement is likely more than a month away.

Alleghany High has 78 graduates in Class of 2002 Monday night

Alleghany High School's Class of 2002, one of the smallest in recent memory, graduated Monday night at the Sparta Elementary School Auditorium.

Reality Check

Backwoods Beat

The Mushroom Chronicles


Relay is set for June 7,8

Officials are encouraging the public to participate in and support this year's annual "Relay for Life," scheduled for June 7 and 8 at Woodruff Stadium.

Recent cold weather damaged local crops

Sub-freezing weather in the latter half of May was not only unusual; it was damaging to the Christmas tree crop.

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Hospital celebrates beginning of project

With the turning of a dozen shovels, Alleghany Memorial Hospital celebrated the beginning of its $8 million construction/renovation project with a groundbreaking ceremony last week.

Veterans Memorial

Members of the Bruce Wayne Osborne Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7034 pay homage to their fallen comrades in a service Sunday on the courthouse lawn.

Mowdown attended by about 1,300

About 1,300 people turned out Saturday for the first-annual CarQuest Spring Mowdown.

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