Local recipients of Appalachian State University Public School Partnership Mini-Grants were announced during the Wilkes school board meeting Monday night.

McNeill Chevrolet Nissan on U.S. 421 West in Wilkesboro honored local emergency response personnel during its sixth annual Hometown Heroes celebration on Oct. 22.

I am the mother of a gay son and a trans son who grew up in Wilkes County. I carried them. I birthed them. I raised them in a Christian ...