Sunday May 19th, 2024
(FESTIVAL CANCELLED) Bigfoot so far has not fallen victim to the coronavirus. Plans for the September 18th and 19th Bigfoot Festival in Marion are continuing. Friday, September 18th will include a massive Bigfoot Expo inside the Marion Community Building with researchers presenting and displaying a wide range of evidence. The expo costs $5 per person. Saturday, September 19th will feature an ...(more)
TOE RIVER HEALTH DISTRICT PRESS RELEASE Toe River Health District Announces Three Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Yancey County Three Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Mitchell County Two Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Avery County Ledger, NC (August 6, 2020). Toe River Health District, Yancey, Mitchell and Avery Counties, were notified today, about the ...(more)
Yancey County Offices are CLOSED tomorrow Friday, August 7th. This normally would have been the Crafts Fair Friday- due to COVID the Crafts Fair will not go on this year BUT we will still be Closed. The Commissioners set the holiday schedule in December- at that point there was no way of knowing the Craft’s Fair would not go on. ...(more)
RALEIGH – Press Release State prison officials have completed COVID-19 tests of all offenders in state prisons and the results show 2.1 percent were positive for the virus in a six-week mass testing operation. Of the 29,062 offenders who were tested during mass testing, a total of 619 tested positive. This positivity percentage of 2.1 percent is much lower than in prison systems in other ...(more)
According to the Mitchell News-Journal, Mitchell County Department of Social Services Director Sara Ross has been placed under paid investigative leave until Monday, Aug. 24. In the open DSS session during the regular meeting of the Mitchell County Commissioners on Monday, August 3rd, Ross was confronted about possible contracts with an outside IT company and possibly violating county ...(more)
Toe River Health District Announces Two Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Yancey County Zero Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Mitchell County Three Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Avery County Ledger, NC (August 5, 2020). Toe River Health District, Yancey, Mitchell and Avery Counties, were notified today, about the following positive cases in our district. Avery County had 3 new ...(more)
The Town of Bakersville has appointed Abby Garland to three of the town’s positions. Garland takes over the duties of town clerk, finance officer and tax collector. At the Bakersville Town Council meeting on July 27th they approved a resolution allowing her to hold both the tax collector and finance officer roles, after getting state approval. The state approval was required because ...(more)
