| 117th Year, 14th Issue | Thursday, November 10, 2005 | Sparta, North Carolina |
Veterans events plannedThree services honoring the men and women who have served in the armed forces will be held throughout the county, with two services scheduled for today and one to be held Sunday.
Turnout is light for Sparta municipal election TuesdayWith only 103 of the Sparta’s 941 registered voters (10.3 percent) going to the polls, the town’s two incumbent councilmen won re-election easily Tuesday night in unofficial vote totals.
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Parkway facilities closing, but colors of fall remainNov. 1 marks the traditional end of the Blue Ridge Parkway travel season, but because autumn color came later this year, several visitor centers and concessionaire-operated facilities operated into November.Group plans to distribute youth grantsAlleghany’s Promise is accepting applications from nonprofit or governmental agencies for grants of up to $1,000 to help provide youth services in Alleghany County.Email The Alleghany News |
Polluting industry ordinance is OK’dFollowing a public hearing that lasted about one hour, the Alleghany County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to approve an ordinance zoning the location of polluting industries during a special called meeting Tuesday night at the Sparta Elementary School Auditorium.
Schools to look at several new sites for bus garageThe Alleghany County Board of Education voted during its monthly meeting to have architects with Pinnacle Architecture of Matthews evaluate different sites for a new bus garage that would require less grading in order to save money on the project.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_14/index.php on line 99 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_14/index.php on line 99 |
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