Editorial

Our View: IRS attacks Christian groups

Righteous Internal Revenue Service audits are one thing.
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Our View: Thursday fun run takes on important local challenge

Look quickly -- if you miss them this week it'll be another year before you have the opportunity.
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Our View: Set in stone a fitting tribute for fallen officer

When a law enforcement officer dies in the line of duty, the reverberations of that death reach deep into the heart of the community in which he served.
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Our View: Water, water everywhere?

At the committee's request, Boone town attorney Sam Furgiuele prudently advised the Boone Water Use Committee that a number of proposed bills in the state...
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Our View: Water damage: it's your way or the byway

If you find yourself staring this week at the remains of what was once a level driveway or private graded road, you're not alone. Five inches of rain in less...
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Our View: Defunct deal must usher new relationship

The statement that Templeton Properties intends to withdraw an $18.9 million offer took less than a minute to make Tuesday morning during a Watauga County...
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Our View: Operating for common good

Keeping more than 1 million prescription pills from the hands of children, teens and others for whom they were not originally intended is easier than you...
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Our View: Faith, trust near empty, but hope still possible

Given the time frame for public notices concerning town ordinance changes, it is unclear how much legal give and take could be given and taken if Boone and...
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Our View: Showing pride

Thumbs-up: to a bit of community pride. As Watauga County prepares to celebrate Community Pride Week, beginning Monday, it's time for us to prepare for our...
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Our View: The experience of a lifetime

Mountain stone provides a solid foundation for building, but even with such raw material few people could have envisioned what Appalachian State University...
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Our View: High Country no $2 million playground

There has been little high road in the High Country as of late.
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Our View: Stargazing and shooting for the stars

Thumbs-up: to stargazing, and the increased opportunity to do so, now that Appalachian State University has officially opened the Jo and Don Cline Visitor...
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Our View: Every day, heroes walk among us

Two days after twin explosions killed or wounded dozens of people near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, questions remain.
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Our View: A vote for the best of our community

It's hard to pin down the "best" of anything.
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Our View: NC 194 location no place to park business sites

Watauga County needs jobs. Our county is not only laboring beneath a crushing unemployment rate that finds nearly one of every 10 people without work, but a...
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Our View: Words, debt: A drag on our community

Thumbs-down: to the use of all derogatory labels, especially when applied to our friends and neighbors. Thumbs-up to the ASU chapter of Special Olympics in its...
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Our View: Easter resonates in our mountains

Today, many of us in the High Country joined Christians throughout the world to welcome Easter during a sunrise or other morning service in celebration of the...
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Our View: Veteran appreciation

Thumbs-up: to spring and Easter in the air. This week that air brought dozens of children to Easter egg hunts in Boone, Blowing Rock and beyond to officially...
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Our View: Your newspaper matters, and these are reasons why

From the mouths of babes -- well, maybe not babes, but certainly some of younger readers -- comes added confirmation: Your local newspaper matters.It was no...
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Sunshine Week education: We've got an App for that

In anticipation of Sunshine Week -- the weeklong initiative beginning today to educate the public about the importance of an open and transparent government --...
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