A Weekly Publication Serving North Carolina's High Country Region WINNER 1st place Best Non-daily Newspaper Website, National Newspaper Association, 2000 2nd place Best Non-daily Newspaper Website, National Newspaper Association, 2001 Wednesday 12 June 2002 Blowing Rock Art Center Project Taking Shape Fundraisers for the proposed Blowing Rock Community Arts Center know that every little bit ...

June 12, 2002 Push On To Increase Cigarette Tax (RALEIGH) -- Health and education advocates continued their push to raise taxes on tobacco rather than cut services, but there's still a wide range of views on how much the tax should be and how it should be spent. There are currently six separate bills circulating in the General Assembly to raise the cigarette tax from 25 cents to one dollar per ...