During the protracted miners’ strike in West Virginia’s Cabin Creek and Paint Creek region in 1913, a company storekeeper and ...

The Spruce Pine Town Council met last week to discuss water and sewer funding, among other town business items. Water/sewer grant The council v ...

Sarah Atkins seatkins05@gmail.com “Our wildlife and communities are not for sale,” said Jeanne Miraglia at a public hear ...

Sarah Atkins seatkins05@gmail.com Although the Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce will not host the N.C. Mineral and Gem Festival ...

The Spruce Pine Town Council voted 3-1 last week to approve the first reading of a new policy on employee compensation. The new policy will be subject to a second reading and a second ...

Friday, July 11 was a particularly busy day at Penland’s U.S. Post Office, as artists and instructors leaving the Penland School of Craft’s latest two-week session descended on the building wit ...

A resident of the Beech Creek development near Bakersville spoke to the Mitchell County Board of Commissioners last week, seeking help with bridge repair and debris collection. “I’m s ...

The 41st annual Grassy Creek Mineral and Gem Show, which runs through Aug. 3, highlights Spruce Pine’s role as a mining hub.

The Mitchell County Board of Commissioner re-appointed several county officials in its first meeting of the 2025-26 fiscal year recently.

It began toward the end of the coronavirus pandemic: A rally of food trucks began gathering on Oak Avenue in downtown Spruce Pine, which provided a chance for people to meet and eat together in the ...

Mountain Community Health Partnership held a groundbreaking Friday for its new development on a 105-acre lot in Grassy Creek. MCHP’s planned 27-thousand-foot facility is designed as an ...

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality will hold a public hearing to discuss a proposed mine in the Poplar/Green Mountain area on July 29 at 6 p.m.