After months of anticipation — and a two-month delay due to Hurricane Helene’s wrath on the High Country area —the recently completed Boone Heritage Monument was finally dedicated on Sunday, Dec. 1.

Jacob Elijah Kilgore, 29, of Boone, N.C., was sentenced to eight years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release today for using the dark web to transport child pornography, announced Dena J.

Local historian and author, Terry Harmon, will be at Boone Mall on Saturday, Dec. 7 from 11 am to 1:30 pm with his riveting new book that has left the area mesmerized since its release in mid-August.