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  "While most of the images are coming out of Asheville, Boone, and more populated areas, there are hundreds of small communities off n...

By Jon-Dalton George   “Young gets it done!” I said grinning ear to ear in a Boone Town Council meeting. We had just gotten a big infrastruc...

  Guest post by Dalton George Housing is the issue, and it has been for quite some time. The Housing Council — a group that was created fro...

  Ray Pickett Issued before 9 a.m. this morning, this bottomline news: Watauga County Commission requests the shelving of that special legis...

The Boone Town Council issued the following statement at the end of its regular monthly meeting held on June 8, 2022 in response to a “local...

  Rep. Ray Pickett introduced a "local bill" ( H193 , that the governor can't veto) which will exempt the development of the O...

  Guest Post Recently, Boone’s Starbucks became the first Starbucks in the state of North Carolina to unionize. An excellent piece of news a...

  Turner House before demolition Eric Plaag, the chair of Boone's Historic Preservation Commission, president of the Watauga County Hist...

Last Wednesday, Oct. 27th, some ambitious faculty members at Appalachian State University -- alarmed by the chancellor's governing style...

  The Appalachian PAC's chosen candidates got buried last night in Boone's municipal elections. Both Eric Woolridge and Benjamin Ray...

  What impact is Appalachian State having on Boone?  This was the question explored by a town hall held last night in the Evelyn Johnson Roo...

Additional background on Mark Ricks and Brian Tracy, two maxxed-out donors to the AppPAC in the Boone Town Council elections: In November 2...

  The expenditures report submitted by the Appalachian PAC to the State Board of Elections is one confounding document, since the PAC treasu...

"Political Committee Disclosure Reports" are due at the NC Board of Elections by this weekend, and the report from the Appalachian...

  On Monday, Oct. 11, AppState political science major Adam Zebzda addressed a letter to the university administration "respectfully re...

  The announcement came yesterday on AppPAC's Facebook page : Eric Woolridge and Benjamin Ray About as anti-climactic as any political e...

  Pam's Picks, including her extensive research, discussion, and endorsement of 2021 candidates for the Boone Town Council, has gone liv...

  Early voting in the BooneTown elections begins in less than a week (next Thursday, Oct. 14), and I'm wondering where those candidate e...

  The footage below, shot with a cellphone during Monday's AppState faculty senate meeting on Zoom, captures two different moments when ...

  Guest Post by Mata Hari Can App State trustees help "launch" a political action committee (PAC) designed to influence municipal ...