The North Wilkesboro Rotary Club presented a check for $10,200 to Wilkes Family YMCA Executive Director Caroline Whitson at ...

A $5,000 Subaru Loves Learning grant recently was awarded to the East Wilkes High School media center. Crystal Blackburn, ...

North Wilkesboro voters elected a new mayor (Randy Huffman) and two new commissioners (Sandra Espin and Alex Hamilton), while ...

An article in last week’s issue mentioned the Wilkes County sheriff’s race between Claude Doughton and C.G. Poindexter in 1942, bringing to mind a story involving Doughton that Dwight Nichols ...

A man was found deceased below his deer hunting stand in the vicinity of McCarter Road in southeastern Wilkes County Monday morning.

The Wilkes Department of Social Services is seeking sponsors for children in foster care or extended foster care to help ensure they receive Christmas gifts this year.

An unoccupied, wood frame house at 2524 Boomer Road in the Boomer community was destroyed by fire on the night of Oct. 28.

The following land and rights of way transfers were filed Oct. 24-30 at the Wilkes Register of Deeds office. Donna Sharpe, Sam Sharpe, Douglas Kilby, Kathy Kilby, Clay Taylor and Heather Taylor to ...

A countywide meeting to discuss Victory gardens for 1943 will be held at the county courthouse in Wilkesboro on Friday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. J.B. Snipes, Wilkes County extension agent, announced the ...

An unoccupied, wood frame house at 2524 Boomer Road in the Boomer community was destroyed by fire on the night of Oct. 28.

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The East Wilkes golf team finished second Tuesday after a rain-shortened 1A/2A finals at Gates Four Country Club in ...