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Running through Jan. 1
The High Country Holiday List. Parades, tree lightings, wreath nights and carols, Nov. 13 to Jan. 1. Updated as events turn up. Read it →
Sat, Nov. 14.
Weather
Forecast says morning snow showers tapering to flurries, then clearing some by afternoon, high of 37, northwest wind 15-25 mph. Coat and a hat for the parade and the Rail Jam. Boone forecast
The 5th
Counties canvassed Friday, the numbers moved up and down all day, and Hubbard ended it ahead of Foxx by 331 votes. Nothing is official until the State Board certifies on Nov. 24. How Watauga and Ashe voted, and what Hubbard has promised if the lead holds, is in our canvass story.
Worth knowing
Worth knowing is the part of the Daily Update most people never scroll to. It's the day's local news in a few lines, with meetings, closures, public safety, and the thing you'd have missed. It changes every day, so click through every day.
Letters to the editor
Evan Fleischer is our Editor-in-Chief, and he wants your letters. Irreverent ones, serious ones, pure jokes. How do you feel about the elections? Does parking make you mad? Are you looking forward to winter? Did Ray get the weather wrong and you're looking to complain? There are no comments here, so this is the door. Send it to editor@left917.net. And if flurries have you in a winter mood, his photo essay Snow Paws is a cat, some tracks, and a surprisingly serious question about curiosity.
The Rack
The Real Boone Podcast gets the story of Hatchet Coffee from Jeremy and Michelle Bollman. Listen on The Rack
Today's picks
The Rail Jam at Beech Mountain Resort, Joust of Jams at House of Brik, and Wednesday's Boone Town Council fee hearing at Council Chambers are in the orange button below.
◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
The Leaders of the CPSU are Betrayers of the Declaration and the Statement
Editorial Department of Renmin Ribao
A polemical tract from China's state newspaper accusing Soviet Communist Party leadership of abandoning Marxist-Leninist principles. This Cold War-era political critique reflects the ideological rupture between Beijing and Moscow in the mid-1960s.
Read the pick →
🌒 Waxing Crescent · 21% lit
Half-lit moon: planets and bright constellations show well, the dimmest stuff hides.
Sky's truly dark after 6:48 PM.
☄ Leonids peaks Nov 17 — look the east the hours before dawn.
◆ NASA's photo today: Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3 →
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