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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.
Feel the Beat: Can’t-Miss Experiences in Galax
As children growing up in Galax, Virginia, Lindsey Nale and her sister found their first instruments in their grandparents’ house. “If we were willing to learn, they’d pay for lessons,” she remembers. At six-years old, Nale started an all-girls blue-grass band — and The Loose Strings Band is still going strong. Today, Nale heads up the JAM (Junior Appalachian Musicians) Program, which serves local students. “It’s so fulfilling to see it sparking the first love of music, which has brought a lot of people into this community who have fallen in love with it,” she says.
Blue Ridge Conservancy Awarded NCDOT Grant for Multimodal Feasibility Study for Northern Peaks State Trail
Blue Ridge Conservancy (BRC) was recently awarded $80,000 by NCDOT for a Multimodal Feasibility Study grant, 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 Mt Jefferson to the Northern Peaks State Trail (NPST).
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...
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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