Judge Douglas Albright ruled March 28 that the Dewey Franklin Edwards case can proceed as a capital first-degree murder prosecution.
Harry Talmadge Englebert, former principal of Wilkesboro Elementary School, was sentenced last Friday morning in Alleghany County Superior Court to over 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a mentally retarded 12-year-old boy.
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Presiding officers of the Alleghany County Board of Education and the Blue Ridge Business Development Center (BDC) last week signed documents effecting a joint venture agreement between the BDC and the school system.
Discussion during Monday's joint meeting between the Sparta Town Council and the Alleghany County Board of Commissioners ranged over a hodgepodge of topics.
Over a Century of Service to Alleghany County
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A spring snow surprised many local residents Sunday morning with accumulations of up to eight inches reported in some areas of the county.
Alleghany teams showed well at the fifth-annual Northwest Envirothon held Thursday at the Edwin H. McGee Natural Resources Conservation Center, located on Fairplains Road in North Wilkesboro.
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