The spring home-buying season has arrived–except things are quite different from years past. While many economists believe house prices still have further to fall, there’s little doubt it’s become a buyer’s market, with buyers gaining leverage that was unthinkable during the boom and the long run-up in prices.
Charlie’s was crowned Chili Challenge champion in the restaurant division at the recent Blowing Rock Winterfest in January
A great place to eat, Sledgehammer Charlie’s Smokehouse and Grill is at one of the newest restaurants on to the miracle mile of restaurants along Blowing Rock’s bypass of U.S. 321.
For buyers with good credit and healthy bank accounts, a million dollars buys a lot more home than it did a few years ago.
Read the article from Yahoo Finance or look at homes priced 0ver $1 million in the High Country.
Boone Point, The new mixed use development on the 105 ext. will be 40k square ft and offer 10 condominiums above several businesses such as a Cold Stone Creamery. The project began last September and is scheduled for completion this fall.
A group of Boone citizens known as the ABC Taskforce is gearing up for an attempt to bring liquor by the drink to the restaurants of Boone. Spearheaded by Boone Saloon co-owner Stephen Sinanian, the group is currently testing the popularity of a potential referendum that would put liquor by the drink on the ballot later this year. Boone residents have not voted on liquor by the drink since the mid 1990s.
“I represent a group of business owners and professors who are interested in pursuing the feasibility of liquor by the drink,” said Sinanian. “We’re going around to different groups such as the DBDA and the Boone Chamber of Commerce, just to feel out how the town is going to receive the idea of having a mixed beverage referendum. So far we’ve gotten positive feedback.”
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UPDATE:
Boone Council Schedules Public Hearing on Mixed Beverages for April 24
The council agreed to a public hearing on Thursday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the commissioners’ boardroom in the Watauga County Administration Building.
In 2007 there were 403 building permit applications. This number is an increase of 67 permits from a year ago (+20%) and 167 permits from 2005 (+70%).
The US Airways Magazine did a great feature on Boone and Blowing Rock in the January issue. Here’s a link to the article , which is comprised of 10 PDF’s (below)
The DOT is planning to remove the row of shops on the Dan’l Boone Inn corner, to allow a new right turn lane.
According to the Uniform Relocation Act, tenants will be eligible to collect up to $10,000 in reestablishment expenses, up to $2,500 in search expenses and will also be reimbursed for any and all moving costs. Tenants could also choose to settle for a single, one-time payout of $20,000 to cover all moving and reestablishment expenses.
High Country Climber Killed in Fall Boone Mountain Times The body of a Boone rock climber was discovered on Thursday, March 4, near mile marker 242 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Alleghany County. ... |
High Country Visit: Perdue Guarded, Optimistic About NC Economy Boone Mountain Times Perdue lauded Watauga County's efforts in largely avoiding teacher layoffs and vowed to show up to cut the ribbon on the county's new high school in August. ... |
Cold, snowy winter has been a blessing for ski resorts in Beech Mountain Hickory Daily Record Beech Mountain - Nobody's complaining about this winter's abundant snowfall in the ski-lodge villages of North Carolina's High Country. ... |
Time capsule buried at courthouse Jefferson Post What will future generations of Ashe County citizens remember about the High Country in 100 years? ... |
 TriCities.com | Snow Days: Cold, snowy winter a blessing for ski resorts TriCities.com Without snow machines, Moretz said, there would be no skiing in the mountains of North Carolina's High Country. But, this year, resorts like Ski Beech and ... |
Author Pegram to address High Country Writers Boone Mountain Times He and his wife, Patty, reside in Oak Ridge, NC and he is a grandfather. His wife will be joining him for the meeting on March 11. ... |
Hell of the High Country coming in April Watauga Democrat By Mark Mitchell The Hell of the High Country is coming! No, this is not a new horror movie set in Boone and starring Andrew Dice Clay and Paris Hilton. ... |
Boone resident snags Gov's Award Boone Mountain Times Boone resident and College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC) senior associate director of technology Robin Greene was awarded the Governor's Award for ... |
AURA at ASU March 12 Boone Mountain Times TRCS is an expeditionary Learning Outward Bound public school in Boone. As a North Carolina charter school, Two Rivers has adopted an integrated, thematic, ... |
NC mountains experiencing one of worst winters on record CharlotteObserver.com The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning until 6 am Thursday for Avery, Alleghany, Ashe, Mitchell, Watauga and Yancey counties, ... |
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