RALEIGH — On Jan. 29, Sandra Rost was honored as a 2003 Main Street Champion at the North Carolina Main Street Annual Awards Dinner in Morganton, NC.
Reversing the usual trend toward greater visitation, travel to the Blue Ridge Parkway fell in 2003.
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Since its March 2003 opening, the Friends of the Library bookstore — Books 'N Friends on Main Street in Sparta — has doubled in size once, and has recently more than doubled again.
The Civil War lasted four years, but an Avery County resident said recently that he essentially 'lived' for six years with soldiers from that bloody struggle as he researched and wrote "The Thirty-Seventh North Carolina Troops: Tar Heels in the Army of Northern Virginia."
Over a Century of Service to Alleghany County
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Meeting behind closed doors for most of the meeting, the Alleghany County Board of Education came out of closed session briefly to approve a small slate of personnel recommendations.
The 37th Annual WCOK (1060 AM) radio heart auction started off well last Saturday, helping raise more than $7,000 for the American Heart Association in its first week.
After eight months of negotiation, teapot collectors Sonny and Gloria Kamm and New River Community Partners (NRCP) signed a memorandum of agreement in early December 2003 setting forth the conditions for bringing the entire Kamm Teapot Collection to Sparta.
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