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Commencement for Ashe politics takes place today
Commencement This is just the beginning of an important season. Today, May 4, marks a graduation and a commencement — in the political life of Ashe County, not schools. Schools still have another ...
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Town mourns loss of police officer
Officer Tommy Beamer’s patrol car sat quietly in front of West Jefferson Town Hall this week, a picture of him in full uniform taped to the driver’s side window as a memorial to his passing. The...
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Courage to offer an opinion
This editorial page in recent weeks has produced as much local discussion of an issue as I have seen in my 14 months in Ashe. I am happy about that fact. The topic has been homosexuality and the M...
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Reaching out through Relay for Life
The spirit of a group can be a powerful thing. It is likely something you have seen before and will see again July 17 and 18 at Ashe County High School with this year’s Relay for Life. Relay for L...
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No more excusesl; time is running out
Running excuse #37: I can’t run this morning because my drawers are too big. I kid you not. The fact that my underwear was baggy became an excuse not to put in my 30-minute run recently. For those...
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Understanding: Learning more about water intake gives us a measure of control.
Recent attempts by the Town of Boone to secure permits for a water intake on the New River have been polarizing. There are at least two sides as always probably more and gracious room for lots of...
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EDITORIALS
Taking life a bite at the time
by Lonnie Adamson, General Manager
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Many of my early lessons in work ethic came at about age 11, mowing lawns for neighbors in my north Alabama community. I revisited some of the experiences recently, dripping with sweat one recent ...
Saving mountain music, saving a lifestyle
by Lonnie Adamson, General Manager
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Of all of the unique and wonderful things about the North Carolina mountains, the region’s music represents it best. In my travels, I have seen the resilience of homegrown music in west Tennessee ...
Out of the mouth’s of babes.
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Out of the mouth’s of babes. That is the saying used when we adults are surprised by gems spoken by youngsters. The most recent gems I have received involve the mostly 5th and 6th grader’s involv...
Education losses affect us all
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With Friday’s announcement about Ashe County teachers losing jobs and a pretty successful Christmas in July Festival, this has been a week of paradoxes. Most people could probably say they would h...
Pondering blueberries and more
by Lonnie Adamson, General Manager
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Ashe County has taught this flatlander a lesson or two in two years. This week marks the beginning of my third year at the Jefferson Post. It has been a collection of challenges I could not have i...
A lesson in persistence
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The story of Ashe County’s new Forest Service building is a lesson in persistence – for 45 years. The man most directly involved in the effort, Luther Anderson, says more specifically that it has ...
LETTERS
Homeless couple have selves to blame
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To the Editor: I read with interest the article about my daughter and her husband. I especially thought the comment they were politely asked to leave me was nice. There were extenuating circumst...
Thanks for support in career
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To the Editor: On May 14, 2010 at 5 p.m., I, SgtMaj Mark A. Massey, raised my right hand for the last time to take the oath of enlistment at the World Trade Center site in New York City. I will ...
Good people, good places; Let’s move forward To the Editor:
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The news about bankruptcy for the limited liability company operating Jefferson Landing was especially depressing because of the effects on Ed and Linda Rodgers.  In my experience with them, they h...
Should Ashe Chamber take sides on ETJ
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To the Editor: The issue of West Jefferson enacting Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) is before us. It has been reported that the Chamber of Commerce voted to support the enactment of the ETJ. I...
Ashe Tea Party a success, thank
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With warmest regards I want to thank all the wonderful patriots who attended our first, of many, "We The People" of Ashe Tea Party. In attendance, were Democrats, Republicans, Non affiliated, Inde...
Awareness of domestic violence is needed
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Do we ever really think about what’s going on behind closed doors in Ashe County? A baby crying in the home of a young couple, a loving elderly couple, or maybe a normal family with a husband, wif...
MORE OPINIONS
Solving our energy crisis without destroying North Carolina jobs
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By Congresswoman Virginia Foxx The summer months are here and as families plan vacations, our country continues to struggle with high energy costs. That is why Washington Democrats’ cap and t...
Cutting class It used to mean kids skipping school. Now school is skipping them.
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Anyone who has read a newspaper or listened to a newscast over the past five or six months knows North Carolina has a budget problem. A massive one. Of course, anyone who was paying much attent...
Love it or hate it, smoking ban is fair to all involved
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Last week’s North Carolina House of Representatives vote to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, coming just days after the Senate approved a similar bill, was a good move in that it made no exemp...
New insurance law is just more intrusion
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The North Carolina General Assembly, in its seemingly endless wisdom, enacted a law last year requiring motorists to carry coverage protecting them if they are in an accident with an uninsured moto...
Support the pool
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The Ashe School Based Health Center Advisory Board would like to state their support of the New pool being built at the Ashe County Middle School campus. This type of facility will benefit the com...
Significance, focus: Donation good for school, points in the right direction
by By Lonnie Adamson
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The donation last week of $5,000 by GE Aviation to Ashe County High School for science and math programs is significant in its offering and its focus. The donation will go toward the purchase of...
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