National Poetry Month was celebrated with the sixth annual James Larkin Pearson Poetry Competition at Whippoorwill Academy and Village in Ferguson on April 20.
The latest Wilkes County Hall of Fame (WCHOF) class was announced Feb. 8. It consists of Bill Bare, Rex Barker, Brenda Dobbins, Edd and Gertrude Gardner, Marsh Lyall, Keith Miller,
Mary Catherine Sebastian, 68, of North Wilkesboro, passed away, Wednesday at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. She was born May 16, 1955 in Wilkes County to