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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.

Read more: FLASH ALERT: Watauga County School District Calls Special Board Meeting

Read more: WCS Implements Online Query System for School, Bus Assignments

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

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.

Read more: Blue Cross Blue Shield in Health Equipment Grant to Hardin Park School

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.

Read more: FOR YOUR CALENDAR: Spaghetti & Bingo!

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.

Read more: School Bus Driver Training Offered by Watauga County Schools

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.

Read more: BREMCO, Touchstone Energy Offer Summer Basketball Scholarships to Middle Schoolers

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.

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

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.

Read more: School Board "Town Hall" Tour Comes to Blowing Rock

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

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.

Read more: WHS Winter Choral Concert Powerful, Delicate Fun

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.

Read more: Budding "Grammy" Winners Among Blowing Rock Students?

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.

Read more: SNAPSHOT: Blowing Rock 1st Graders Learn Part 2

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

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

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.

Read more: Watauga High, Parkway Music Students Honored

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.

Read more: Blowing Rock Wax Museum Turns Heads

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.

Read more: Learning Compassion @ Blowing Rock School

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.

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