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Opening night reception for Work by ArtMix, a show featuring new works and a tribute to ArtMix member Orna Moradov Bentor, is 5:30-7:30 p.m.. Friday at the Wilkes Art Gallery.
The Ola Belle Reed Song Writer’s Retreat is April 11-13 at the Ashe Civic Center and Ashe Arts Center in West Jefferson.
Students in the Fantasia Junior Music Club in Wilkes County received high ratings for their performances in the N.C. Federation of Junior Music Clubs Festival at Wake Forest University in ...
The impact of the emergence of a periodical cicada brood on orchards, berry and grape operations and other woody plants ...
After mostly missing out on the show when Brood XIX (19) of the 17-year periodical cicadas emerged in parts of North Carolina ...
The West Wilkes tennis team stayed locked in to first place after sweeping a pro-set doubleheader Tuesday at East Surry in ...
A man is being credited with saving his mother’s life when a fire broke out in their mobile home on Dehart Church Road in the ...
Two East Wilkes boys relay track teams set new school records Saturday in the App State High School Meet in Boone.
The West Wilkes softball team kept its hold on first place in the Foothills 2A Conference after a 12-1 drubbing of East Surry in Millers Creek on Tuesday.
Wilkes County’s newest landmark – a steel pedestrian bridge about 200 feet long and 16 feet wide - went up over U.S. 421 East ...
Dr. Kelly Pipes, science teacher at Wilkes Early College High School, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Career Award for ...