MerleFest in many ways is a melting pot of traditional music and husband and wife John Cloyd Miller and Natalya Zoe Weinstein ...

The Wilkes County commissioners received a request for an 18% increase in county government funding for Wilkes Community College in the fiscal 2026-27 budget during a budget work session on ...

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The North Wilkes golf team and West Wilkes junior Slater Meade were victors Monday in a nonconference golf match at Oakwoods ...

West Wilkes’ Austin Frazier had a first-place finish Monday in a six-team nonconference track meet at West Caldwell High School in Lenoir.

The West Wilkes tennis team cruised to a 5-1 win Monday in the opening round of the 3A dual team playoffs in Millers Creek.

The Avery soccer team turned back North Wilkes, 5-1, in a nonconference match Friday in Newland.

Every indication is that Wilkes Community College’s 38th MerleFest lived up to its tradition of being a well-organized, ...

Time sure does fly by when you’re having fun. I’m sure that was on a slew of folks’ minds Monday as the latest MerleFest music festival settled into the rear ...

Lock up your daughters and horses, the legislature is back in town,” a statement sometimes said in jest. Whether humorous or not it is notice that our lawmakers are back ...

A man died in a wreck on Connelly Springs Road in Caldwell County on Friday. Senior Trooper Jake Macchia reported that Roy James Byrd, 39, of Lenoir, was driving a 2013 Ford Taurus southbound on ...