3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (244+ words) Ribbon is cut for new driver training area a Wilkes Community College. A parking lot at Wilkes Community College has been converted into a driver training facility. Wilkes Community College celebrated completion of a new facility designed to enhance hands-on…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (962+ words) The 2025-26 inductees in the North Wilkes High School Hall of Fame are Rebecca Ann Sebastian, Calvin Wyatt and members of the 1972 North Wilkes Viking football team. They were inducted in the annual Hall of Fame banquet at the Stone Center…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (481+ words) Left: Ethan Wood, North's top-seeded singles player, returns a backhand against Elkin in Hays on Thursday. Below: Competing at #2 singles, North's Eden Burkenbine makes a forehand return on Thursday against Elkin in Hays. Right: North Wilkes' Gian Olvera-Maldonado returns a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (617+ words) Papers donated by Ike Forester to Appalachian State University included William Lenoir's roster of men in his command on a May 1776 "expedition against the Indians," which would have been the Cherokee in western North Carolina. Many of these men lived…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (508+ words) Robby McMillian will perform Thursday at Wilkes Coffee Co. in Wilkesboro. George Smith will play a free show Friday at the Reeves Theater in Elkin. Anna Mertson will play Saturday at Castelle Barone in Ronda. Part of World Theatre Day,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (228+ words) Wasp pollinates peach blossoms in Armit Tevepaugh's orchard Sunday. On Sunday, the majority of Armit Tevepaugh's peach trees on Vannoy Ridge Road in the Brushy Mountain community appeared to have survived last week's severe cold with minimal damage. The Brushy…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (601+ words) Bevara High Pressure Processing (HPP) Tolling Services bought this 48,000-square-foot building on Industrial Drive in Wilkesboro this month from Boone-based Goodnight Brothers. A 48,000-square-foot building at 1601 Industrial Drive in Wilkesboro has been sold to a company that plans to use…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (562+ words) Thank goodness we didn't have a repeat of the blizzard of 1993 last week. We did have a wild temperature swing that kept me bundled up on my morning walks, but that's about the extent of the damage. Otherwise, luminous days…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (37+ words) Youth art featured Page C5Journal-Patriot There was a problem reporting this. Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language. - To view our latest e-Edition click the image on the left....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1039+ words) Steve McKeand, professor emeritus at N.C. State University and former director of NCSU's Tree Improvement Program, grafts a longleaf pine scion onto slash pine rootstock. Once stretching across more than 90 million acres of the southeastern United States and much of eastern…...