A heartfelt farewell to 19 educators from Amherst County Public Schools who are retiring or who have retired in the past year was held during a May 20 dinner at Sweet Briar College.
The Wilkes Economic Development Corp. board on Non. 9 unanimously approved a motion in support of Wilkes County government buying a 50-acre parcel with the 430,000-square-foot former Lowe’s Companies Inc.
The Wilkes County commissioners on Tuesday night took the final action needed for Jefferson-based Vannoy Construction to start building a 48,500-square-foot county office facility on county-owned land at the northwestern