The Wilkes Department of Social Services is seeking sponsors for children in foster care or extended foster care to help ensure they receive Christmas gifts this year.

The following land and rights of way transfers were filed Oct. 24-30 at the Wilkes Register of Deeds office. Donna Sharpe, Sam Sharpe, Douglas Kilby, Kathy Kilby, Clay Taylor and Heather Taylor to ...

Victory gardens A countywide meeting to discuss Victory gardens for 1943 will be held at the county courthouse in Wilkesboro on Friday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. J.B. Snipes, Wilkes County extension agent, ...

An unoccupied, wood frame house at 2524 Boomer Road in the Boomer community was destroyed by fire on the night of Oct. 28.

The East Wilkes golf team finished second Tuesday after a rain-shortened 1A/2A finals at Gates Four Country Club in ...

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Chuck Smithey, Wilkes Rescue Squad board chairman, said an article in the Oct. 23 issue, (“Squad still hopes to provide rescue services”), incorrectly said lack of squad personnel with paramedic ...

Consideration of moving ahead with building a new North Wilkesboro fire station was removed from the agenda when the town ...

McNeill Chevrolet in Wilkesboro hosted its eighth annual Hometown Heroes event honoring local emergency services personnel on ...

The Holiday Bazaar Crawl returns in the Wilkesboros on Saturday, Nov. 8, with the addition of Wilkesboro United Methodist ...

The fourth annual Spooktacular, from 4-8 p.m. Saturday, drew the event’s biggest crowd yet to downtown North Wilkesboro.

The North Wilkesboro commissioners unanimously endorsed taking steps to again make video recordings of town board meetings and post them online.