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Weekend Kicks Off with Earthquake Near North Carolina / Virginia Border
The weekend kicked off with an earthquake near the Virginia border in northern North Carolina early Saturday morning. According to USGS, at 5:44 am on Saturday morning, a magnitude 2.2 earthquake struck from a depth of 5.9 km near Sparta, North Carolina. The epicenter was located in the northwest corner of the state, just west of I-77 and north and west of Winston-Salem.
Horton Hotel cemented as historic landmark
BOONE — The Horton Hotel, in addition to being a popular lodging and nightlife spot, is now a historic destination after the Boone Town Council approved a local historic landmark designation for the storied property during a council meeting on Wednesday, June 26. The town’s Historic Preservation Commission approved a local historic landmark for the hotel in January, and the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office provided further comment. According...
Vote Common Good holds Faith and Democracy Rally in West Jefferson
WEST JEFFERSON — Vote Common Good, a nonprofit of interdenominational faith leaders made a stop on their 50-state bus tour in West Jefferson on Sunday, July 14, to recognize candidates for political office who had signed the Vote Common Good Pledge. Ben Massey, candidate for NC House of Representatives and Tanya Robinson and Nancy Beth Weaver, candidates for Ashe County Commissioner, met with Common Good leaders and an enthusiastic crowd of interested local voters about the need to mobilize people of faith to make the...
BRC awarded NCDOT grant for Multimodal Feasibility Study for Northern Peaks State Trail
JEFFERSON — Blue Ridge Conservancy was recently awarded an $80,000 grant by NCDOT for a Multimodal Feasibility Study, which will give BRC and its partners of Jefferson, West Jefferson, and Ashe County a plan to connect Paddy Mountain Park to Mount Jefferson State Natural Area via a pedestrian pathway. This pathway will ultimately connect Mount Jefferson to the Northern Peaks State Trail (NPST), which will connect Boone to West Jefferson. ...
USGS, Alleghany County reporting earthquake
SPARTA, N.C. — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is reporting an earthquakes near Sparta early Saturday morning July 13. The tremor occurred at 5:44 a.m. Saturday about four miles south of Sparta near the Wilkes County border. The 2.2-Magnitude earthquake occurred at an approximate depth of three-point-seven miles. As of 10:00 a.m. Sunday, approximately 40 Alleghany County residents had reported feeling the earthquake to the USGS.
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