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Alien Festival will have wide variety of speakers

The Spruce Pine Alien Festival is set to land in town on June 10 and is bringing a star-studded cast of experts and researchers to serve as guest speakers.

Bringing science to life

More than 200 students from Greenlee and Deyton Elementary Schools explored science earlier this month during the annual Agricultural Science Fair presented by Mitchell County Farm Bureau Women’s Committee.   Each of the students visited science stations for about 10 minutes.

Program provides pet food to those in need

Through its new Feeding Mitchell County Pets Project, Mitchell County Animal Rescue is aiming to help feed family pets in the area. The program provides free pet food for pets owned by Mitchell County families from low-income households, low-income seniors on fixed incomes and veterans.

Hitting all the right notes

Fred Rogers, the man known to generations as Mr. Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, famously said, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” Who are the helpers in our community?

Fund for Mitchell County awards nearly $50,000 in grants

The Fund for Mitchell County awarded 12 grants totaling $49,500 to Mitchell County nonprofits in its recent grant cycle.  The Fund for Mitchell County, in partnership with The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, has awarded grants totaling $859,109.

Area students show out at NC FBLA Leadership Conference

Students from Mitchell High School, Bowman Middle and Harris Middle recently attended the North Carolina Future Business Leaders of America Leadership Conference in Greensboro where they networked, competed, learned and had fun.

We are the champions (of the pull)

A local team, made up of members of the Fitness Express gym in Spruce Pine, recently brought home a first-place banner from the Western North Carolina Charity Fire Truck Pull held at the WNC Ag Center.

Local interior design students visit App State

As part of the new interior design fundamentals course at Mitchell High, a group of students recently traveled to Appalachian State to learn about the university’s interior design program firsthand.  Mitchell’s interior design fundamentals course is in its first year.

Senate Bill 41 passes, big changes come to handgun purchases

Those looking to purchase a handgun in North Carolina will no longer have to obtain a purchase permit from a sheriff’s office in the state, a Senate Bill passed into law this past week says.

Medicaid expansion heads to Cooper for final sign-off

On Thursday, March 23, the North Carolina House gave final passage to House Bill 76, a bill to expand Medicaid, by a vote of 87-24. On Wednesday, March 24, the day prior, the vote was 95-21. The bill now officially goes to Gov. Roy Cooper's desk for his signature.