| 117th Year, 2nd Issue | Thursday, August 18, 2005 | Sparta, North Carolina |
Brooks trial is planned March 2006Duane Edgar “Dewey” Brooks likely will head to trial in March of 2006, but will not be facing the death penalty.WNC Index increases for JuneJune was a good month for the region’s economy, according to statistics tracked in the Western North Carolina Economic Index.
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Questions remain about school plansDiscussions about school facilities are continuing, but several key decisions about the nature of any future facility have yet to be made.
Relay for Life tops goalThe Alleghany Relay for Life has already exceeded its $25,000 county goal by almost $5,000, raising $29,538.19 by the end of the two-day event held in Crouse Park on Aug. 12 and 13.Email The Alleghany News |
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Emergency preparedness exercise held in countyAlleghany County, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Office of Domestic Preparedness (ODP) response agencies met at the Alleghany County EMS base on Saturday, Aug. 6 for the Alleghany County emergency preparedness exercise held that day.Tree faulted in outageA tree growing too close to power lines was the cause of a power outage last Thursday (Aug. 11) affecting some 53,000 members of Blue Ridge Electric in Alleghany, Watauga and Ashe counties.Warning: main(http://www.alleghanynews.com/ads.html) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /home/u5/allnews/html/archive/117_02/index.php on line 94 Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.alleghanynews.com/ads.html' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/share/pear') in /home/u5/allnews/html/archive/117_02/index.php on line 94 |
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