While cookouts and other outdoor events abound in Watauga County this Memorial Day weekend, Valerie Midgett of Neighborhood Yoga will offer a different type of relaxation at her downtown studio at 7 p.m. Monday, May 27.

A perilous family feud, centered in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, goes full-blown in William Pipes’ first published novel, “Darby.” Pipes, a retired school teacher from Western North Carolina, said the book is set in the small Wilkes County community of Darby, before the storyline moves “up the mountain” to Watauga County and … (more)

A perilous family feud, centered in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, goes full-blown in William Pipes’ first published novel, “Darby.” Pipes, a retired school teacher from Western North Carolina, said the book is set in the small Wilkes County community of Darby, before the storyline moves “up the mountain” to Watauga County and … (more)