Most of the cases in the latest round of drug arrests by the Wilkes Sheriff’s Office narcotics unit involved methamphetamine, plus various other controlled substances.
A wildfire that began Saturday from a man burning a brush pile near his hunting cabin on Longbottom Road in McGrady scorched between 30 and 40 acres of forestland before
Dale Isom, chairman of the Wilkes Economic Development Corp., commented on the remarkable view as he looked out across the newly-renovated North Wilkesboro Speedway from the Turn Four Building.
A crash has closed a road in Southington on Tuesday morning. Police said the upper portion of Shuttle Meadow Road is closed at the intersection with North.