Blowing Rock News

07/23/2025

From chaotic, adventurous childhood comes vivid colors
https://blowingrocknews.com/from-an-adventurous-even-chaotic-childhood-comes-vivid-colors-with-purpose/
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07/23/2025

Let's get physical!
https://blowingrocknews.com/lets-get-physical/
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07/23/2025

STREETWISE: Blowing Rock a choice among several
https://blowingrocknews.com/streetwise-blowing-rock-was-a-choice-among-several/
Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce
Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Boone / Blowing Rock - Watauga County Economic Development
Watauga Democrat
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05/15/2025

Watauga County: At a crossroads of life and death?
https://blowingrocknews.com/watauga-county-at-a-crossroads-of-life-and-death/
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Blowing Rock, North Carolina
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By David Rogers. BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — Watauga Medics serves as the contracted, for-profit franchisee for providing ambulance service in Watauga County and has done so since 1999. At the May 6 meeting of the Watauga County Board of Commissioners, Watauga Medics CEO Craig Sullivan asked the commissi...

05/08/2025

Tomorrow's Blowing Rock: North Carolina Healthcare's 'Catch-22'
https://blowingrocknews.com/north-carolina-healthcares-catch-22/
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Watauga Democrat
WataugaOnline
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By David Rogers. BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — Competition is a hallmark of any market-driven economy. At least in the U.S., historically, so is compassion for the less fortunate, even for those with fewer resources or talent to compete in the competitive marketplace. The contradictory nature of those two ...

11/11/2024

Joseph Martin: Working at the intersection of music and message
https://blowingrocknews.com/joseph-martin-working-at-the-intersection-of-music-and-message/
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Blowing Rock Art & History Museum

10/12/2024

Too close to home, getting our arms around the Richardsons
https://blowingrocknews.com/too-close-to-home-getting-our-arms-around-the-richardsons/

09/17/2024

By David Rogers. BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — With an undergraduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill already in hand, Caroline Hoover will soon be off to England where she aims to earn an “MPhil” (Master’s in Philosophy) at Cambridge University, thanks in part to a Global Scholarship awarded to her on Sept. 16 by The Rotary Club of Blowing Rock.
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09/11/2024

By David Rogers. BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — The Blowing Rock Board of Commissioners met on Sept. 10 with town staff and Mayor Charlie Sellers.
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09/09/2024

By David Rogers. BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — Call landscape architect and golf course designer Ron Cutlip a “people pleaser,” if you will. Like when he sees kids playing on the Blowing Rock School playground he designed, he relishes the moment when he witnesses people enjoying his creations as intended.
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08/30/2024

By David Rogers. BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — With quips from Mark Twain and admiration for the namesake of the honor, Blowing Rock resident and former member of the Board of Commissioners, Albert Yount accepted the Paul H. Broyhill Community Service Award on Aug. 20, presented by the Blowing Rock Civic Association at the organization’s annual meeting.

ready the entire article at: https://blowingrocknews.com/yount-honored-with-paul-broyhill-community-service-award-at-brca-annual-meeting/

08/29/2024

By David Rogers. BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. And it happened at the Aug. 26 special meeting of the Blowing Rock Town Council.

Read the full article at: https://blowingrocknews.com/planning-board-member-removed-for-cause-4-1/