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Saving mountain music, saving a lifestyle
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 ...
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Out of the mouth’s of babes.
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 involve...
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Education losses affect us all
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...
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Pondering blueberries and more
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...
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A lesson in persistence
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 ...
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Land use planning helpful not hurtful
With some minor tweaking, West Jefferson aldermen last week approved a helpful extraterritorial jurisdiction, aiding land use planning efforts in Ashe. Let’s not expect it to be a perfect system, ...
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Community needs land use solution
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A good debate over land use restrictions continues in the county. It points to a need for greater land use controls as people live closer to one another. West Jefferson town officials have chosen...
Public protests ETJ and SOB in West Jefferson
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“About that” is a new editorial page feature. It will help spread comments that have been sent in regard to comments to our on-line stories when space allows and the quantity of comments allow. So ...
Ashe children need your help
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Ashe County needs you! More specifically the 23 percent of Ashe children living below the poverty line need you. A group of the county’s churches is organizing for a special day to help children a...
Seeing the story from the inside
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Theater is storytelling.West Jefferson United Methodist Church told a good story well last week as part of what it describes as its drama ministry. The show is “Smoke on the Mountain” and is famili...
Business attitude up in Ashe
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Even in the bleakness of 16.2 percent unemployment in Ashe, hope lives on in many business folk around the county. It is indeed difficult to watch the headlines over the last two months, seeing th...
Sexually-oriented busineses point to need for land use planning
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Wisdom prevails again on the West Jefferson Board of Aldermen. The aldermen last week agreed again to delve into the nettlesome issue of regulating sexually-oriented businesses. They had the oppo...
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