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Watauga High's Weeks Named National Merit Finalist

Read more...Special Report to Blowing Rock News from Watauga County Schools. By Marshall Ashcraft. February 20, 2013. BOONE NC -- Watauga High School senior Sam Weeks has been named a finalist for a National Merit Scholarship, a prestigious and highly competitive award given through the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

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FLASH ALERT: Watauga County School District Calls Special Board Meeting

Read more...Special Report to Blowing Rock News from Watauga County Schools. February 19, 2013. BOONE NC -- The Watauga County Board of Education will hold a "called meeting" on Thursday, February 21, 2013, at 6:45 pm, for personnel discussion NCGS 143-318.11(6). The meeting will be held at Mabel Elementary School, prior to the scheduled Town Hall meeting.

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WCS Implements Online Query System for School, Bus Assignments

Special Report to Blowing Rock News from Watauga County Schools. By Marshall Ashcraft. February 12, 2013. BOONE, NC -- Families and realtors who want to know school assignment and school bus information for a given address can now find that information online through the Watauga County Schools website.

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PASS: Workforce Readiness the Aim of Soucek's Co-Sponsored Education Bill

Special Report. February 7, 2013. RALEIGH, NC -The North Carolina Senate unanimously approved legislation Thursday to increase opportunities for students to receive a high-quality career and technical education that prepares them for the workforce.

Read more: PASS: Workforce Readiness the Aim of Soucek's Co-Sponsored Education Bill

   

Blue Cross Blue Shield in Health Equipment Grant to Hardin Park School

Special Report to Blowing Rock News from Watauga County Schools. By Marshall Ashcraft. February 5, 2013. BOONE -- Hardin Park School has been awarded a health equipment grant for $5,000 by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Foundation to help the school fund an upgraded playground accessible to children with physical disabilities.

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FOR YOUR CALENDAR: Spaghetti & Bingo!

By David Rogers. January 24, 2013. BLOWING ROCK -- Mama mia! The year has flown by and already it is time for the annual Blowing Rock School PTO Spaghetti and Bingo Night. Always a lot of fun for the whole family -- and an inexpensive night out, too! -- be sure and mark your calendars for Friday, January 25, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm.

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SPECIAL BULLETIN: Weather Prompts Schools to Close Early

Read more...Special Report. January 17, 2013. BOONE -- Watauga County Schools issued a press release at 10:30 am this morning to notify the public that K-8 schools will be dismissed today at 11:30 am, and the high school will dismiss at 12:00 noon, due to expected adverse weather (snow).
   

School Bus Driver Training Offered by Watauga County Schools

Special Report to Blowing Rock News from Watauga County Schools. By Marshall Ashcraft. January 15, 2013. BOONE -- School bus driver training will be offered at Watauga High School January 29-31. The classes run from 8:30-3:00 each day and there is no fee for this training.

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BREMCO, Touchstone Energy Offer Summer Basketball Scholarships to Middle Schoolers

Special Report. January 13, 2013. LENOIR, NC – Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation and North Carolina’s Touchstone Energy cooperatives are offering all-expense paid scholarships for middle-school students from across the state to attend basketball camps this summer at two of North Carolina’s largest college campuses.

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WCS Pre-K Has 14 Spaces Available for Rest of School Year (None in Blowing Rock)

Special Report to Blowing Rock News from Watauga County Schools. By Marshall Ashcraft. January 10, 2013. BOONE --The pre-kindergarten program of the Watauga County Schools - a program that usually has a long waiting list - now has a total of 14 spaces available for the rest of the current school year.

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School Board "Town Hall" Tour Comes to Blowing Rock

Read more...By David Rogers. December 18, 2012. BLOWING ROCK -- No issue was off limits, the answers from were candid, and there was commentary aplenty from almost 30 parents and teachers from Blowing Rock School Monday night, as members of the Watauga County School Board and Superintendant David Kafitz stopped in Blowing Rock for the fourth in a series of "Town Hall" meetings at each of the Watauga County schools.

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Blowing Rock's Aynsley Moore Named to Salem Academy Honor Roll for Q1

Special Report to Blowing Rock News. December 14, 2012. WINSTON-SALEM -- Aynsley Moore, daughter of Catherine and Robert Moore, Jr., of Blowing Rock, was named to Salem Academy’s Honor Roll for the first quarter of the 2012-13 academic year. The list recognizes those students achieving all As and Bs in their classes.

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WHS Winter Choral Concert Powerful, Delicate Fun

Read more...By David Rogers. December 12, 2012. BOONE -- Blending powerful, celebratory hymns with delicate seasonal anthems and holiday favorites turned out to be a beautiful formula Tuesday night for the Lisa Combs-directed Watauga High School Winter Choral Concert, in front of a near full house at Ross Auditorium.

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Budding "Grammy" Winners Among Blowing Rock Students?

Read more...By David Rogers. December 11, 2012. BLOWING ROCK -- They may not yet be worth of a Grammy Award, like Doc Watson, Carrie Underwood, or Taylor Swift, but even those stars got their start somewhere -- and very likely playing for their hometown school orchestra, band, and choral groups.

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SNAPSHOT: Blowing Rock 1st Graders Learn Part 2

Read more...Special Report. December 11, 2012. BLOWING ROCK -- Coming on the heels of a successful outing on November 20th to Hospitality House, Blowing Rock first graders continued their lessons in human compassion and community service on Friday with a field trip to Blowing Rock Hospital's Extended Care facility, organized by teachers Kate Leslie and Missy Searcy.

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SNAPSHOT: Blowing Rock Rotary Gives Dictionaries to All 3rd Graders

Read more...By David Rogers. November 30, 2012. BLOWING ROCK -- When the student in Ms. Walker & Ms. Whiteside's 3rd grade class was asked on Thursday to challenge his teacher to look up a word in one of the new dictionaries provided by The Rotary Club of Blowing Rock, he quickly replied "impervious." Mmmm....Third grade vocabulary has come a long way since this reporter was in school.

Read more: SNAPSHOT: Blowing Rock Rotary Gives Dictionaries to All 3rd Graders

   

Watauga County Pre-K Receives $100k Windfall, No Blowing Rock Benefit

Special Report to Blowing Rock News from Watauga County Schools. By Marshall Ashcraft. November 27, 2012. BOONE -- The Watauga County Schools pre-kindergarten (pre-k) program will be able to serve 36 additional at-risk four year olds for the 2012-13 school year thanks to an infusion of state funding announced by Governor Bev Perdue last month.

Read more: Watauga County Pre-K Receives $100k Windfall, No Blowing Rock Benefit

   

Watauga High, Parkway Music Students Honored

Read more...Special Report to Blowing Rock News from Watauga School District. By Marshall Ashcraft. November 22, 2012. BOONE -- Two high school students and three elementary students in the Watauga County Schools have been selected for participation in elite choral groups.

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Blowing Rock Wax Museum Turns Heads

Read more...By David Rogers. November 20, 2012. BLOWING ROCK -- Like a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly, what begins as a book report in Janet Orr's and Terri Hodges' 8th grade classes at Blowing Rock School turns into a "statue" for each of the students -- a statue that springs to life at the touch of a button. Just like it has for more than 20 years, the "Wax Museum" came to life on Monday at the hands of some very creative students.

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Learning Compassion @ Blowing Rock School

Read more...By David Rogers. November 20, 2012. BLOWING ROCK -- Education goes beyond readin', writin', and 'rithmetic. With a field trip on Monday to Hospitality House, Blowing Rock School first graders also learned about human compassion.

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Six High Country Teacher Teams Win "Bright Ideas" Grants from BREMCO

Read more...Special Report to Blowing Rock News from Blue Ridge Electric. By Renee Whitener. November 11, 2012. BOONE  – As part of its commitment to local education, Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation presented "Bright Ideas" grants totaling more than $6,500.00 to six educator teams last week in Watauga and Avery Counties during a luncheon ceremony honoring the teachers at Daniel Boone Inn.

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