The Board of Directors of the Burnsville – Yancey chamber of Commerce announced early this morning that they have hired Christy Jones to fill the vacant position of Executive Director. The announcement said Jones will start work on October 1st and more details will follow in the days ahead. ...(more)
Matthew Paul Nieland, age 25, of Newland was convicted August 24 on five counts of felony taking indecent liberties with a child and three counts of felony statutory sex offense with a child less than 15 years old. Mathew Paul Nieland, of 268 Trice Fork Mountain Road is a former Watauga County Sheriff’s Office cadet. Nieland was in the first phase of a 12-week training program with the ...(more)
Toe River Health District Announces Two Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Yancey County One Confirmed Case of COVID-19 in Mitchell County Seven Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Avery County Ledger, NC (August 28, 2020). Toe River Health District, Yancey, Mitchell and Avery Counties, were notified today, about the following positive cases in our district. Avery County had 7 new positives today ...(more)
Today, the Board of Directors of the Yancey Advancement Foundation announced the formation of a fund to provide financial assistance to local residents facing delinquent water and sewer bills as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The financial impacts felt by our community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic are prevalent- from families who have lost income, to struggling with childcare, to ...(more)
McDowell County sheriff’s deputies need help identifying this man, believed to be part of a credit card scam. Several residents in Marion have reported their mail being stolen, and some have even stated that the culprits tried to open credit card accounts in their names. This man is one of the suspects, but authorities don’t know who he is. Anyone with information concerning the identity of ...(more)
Mitchell County Department of Social Services Board met on Tuesday, August 25 to receive a report of the Board Members participating in the Pre-Dismissal conference and take appropriate disciplinary action, if any. After reviewing the report of the conference in closed session, the Board returned to open session and made a motion to dismiss Sara Ross. The motion passed 4-0. Ross was placed on ...(more)
Yancey County EMS is one of only four counties in our state to be above the state average for ventricular arrest survival. The 33 percent survival rate is from 2019 data. Further data showed bystander CPR provided in 68 percent of all the cardiac arrests, the highest percent by county in the state with Yancey 911 dispatch center providing the CPR instructions in 100 percent of the cardiac ...(more)
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Ronnie “Lane” Huneycutt as warden at the Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine. Huneycutt, age 50, had been the associate warden at Caldwell Correctional Center in Lenoir since 2015. “Warden Huneycutt is a terrific addition to our team of wardens,” said Todd Ishee, Commissioner of Prisons. “He is a ...(more)
