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Blue Ridge Electric members will share in $4 million credit
Checks or bill credits are coming in May to members of Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation, thanks to a $4 million capital credits retirement approved earlier this year by the board of directors. Checks mailed earlier this week to members due a capital credits refund of $35 or more. Members due less than $35 are receiving their capital credits refunds in the form of a credit on their May electric bill. The amount of each refund is ba...
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<p>Image submitted | Jefferson Post</p><p>This map of Todd is featured on the Todd Mercantile website and was designed by local artist Jim Lewis.</p>
Todd adds a web presence
In an attempt to share the Todd community with the rest of the world, the Todd community and the Todd Mercantile have created websites to disperse information about the area. “You have to have a web presence in today’s world,” said Helen Barnes-Rielly, who owns the Todd Mercantile with her husband. Todd’s website, toddnc.org , gives information about upcoming events and also shares the history of Todd, which at one time, was a larger com...
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DPI releases public reports on educator effectiveness
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has made available to the public the summary results of teacher and administrator evaluation systems for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. These data can be accessed from the Educator Effectiveness Database . The online data display provides a resource that is user-friendly and easily accessible so that parents, educators and other community members can see data reflecting the effec...
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Mother’s Day Hat Contest
Staff photo | Jefferson Post To honor Mother’s Day, the senior center hosted the Mother’s Day Hat Contest on Friday. Winners were chosen according to audience applause from four different categories, which included most creative, best color, oldest style and unusual size. The winners were (from left to right:) Mary Rozier, for most creative, Ina Bare and Irene Sheets for unusual size, Jenifer Barker for oldest styles, and Madge McNeill for be...
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Ribbon cutting at People’s Drug Store
Photo submitted | Jefferson Post Bradley and Aletha Eller, who purchased People’s Drug Drug Store in West Jefferson in November, had their ribbon cutting ceremony Friday. Back row, left to right: Town Manager Brantley Price, Misty Shatley, Ashe Chamber of Commerce board members Jeff Dreyer and Josh Roten, Town Planner Matt Levi, Sherrie Matthews; Middle row, left to right: Brent Eller, Linda Ward, Amanda Goodman, Louise Burgess, Janie Roten, ...
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C.J. Burford (center) completed a 315 mile ride through N.C. at the South Carolina state line last year. With C.J. were his father Craig Burford (left) and family friend and fellow cross-country cyclist Bernard Molinda.
Eight-year-old bikes across N.C.
Eight-year-old C. J. Burford of Walkertown will set off on a bike ride across the state of N.C. Monday morning, traveling 360 miles and raising money to provide live-saving heart surgery for children. ”This bike ride isn’t a race,” Burford said, “instead it’s a great opportunity for many people to help me show God’s love and support families all over the world with children who do not have the medical care they need.” Burford, who has b...
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Lansing’s single traffic signal at the intersection of NC 194 and South Big Horse Creek Road was replaced with a three-way stop this week. The stop signs, in combination with a new pedestrian crosswalk and 20 mph speed limit posting, are intended to slow traffic through town.
Lansing hopes 3-way stop, crosswalk will slow speeders
Lansing’s single traffic signal at the intersection of NC 194 and South Big Horse Creek Road was replaced with a three-way stop this week. The stop signs, in combination with a new pedestrian crosswalk and 20 mph speed limit posting, are intended to slow traffic through town.
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Ashe Memorial CEO resigns
The Board of Trustees of Ashe Memorial Hospital (AMH) has announced the resignation of hospital CEO R.D. Williams. He has served as CEO at Ashe Memorial for nearly 20 years, and has been an involved member of the community. During his tenure, Williams was instrumental in establishing the Ashe County Health Council, a Healthy Carolinians Task Force and its successor organization the Ashe Health Alliance. These organizations bring together th...
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<p>Dylan Lightfoot | Jefferson Post</p><p>A tanker truck pumped contaminated water out of a rain-flooded cell at the Ashe County Landfill Wednesday. Due to persistent rain, a few hundred thousand gallons of leachate had to be trucked out of the county this week.</p>
Heavy rains cost county $118,000
Persistent rain in the High Country this week caused a build-up of contaminated water at the Ashe County landfill. “It’s beginning to recede,” said Ashe County Environmental Services (ACES) Director Scott Hurley. “We’re hauling six tanker truck loads per day.” Hurley said the rain has been a problem this year because a new rubber-lined cell at the landfill had not yet been filled with garbage, and was instead filling with water. “We had s...
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<p>James Howell | Jefferson Post</p><p>Dianne Eldreth (left) and Vickie Herman (right) spoke to the board of commissioners on behalf of Project Graduation during Monday&#8217;s BOC meeting.</p>
County commissioners allocate $8,000 to Project Graduation
The Ashe County Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed to give $8,000 to help fund the 2012 Project Graduation after hearing a request from Dianne Eldreth and Vickie Herman. “We’re here again to ask your help one more time with project graduation,” said Eldreth. “We had an enormous rainstorm on Friday (the day of Project Graduation’s fundraiser), and we’re a little bit behind.” Eldreth said her group managed to raise about $12,000 duri...
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