The Blue Ridge Literacy Council has elected three new directors to its board.

The Reverend Harold L. McKinnish, my Dad, was the designer and stonemason for the entrance sign to the community of Highland Hills, off the Spartanburg Highway, on Oak Grove Road.

What made you want to be apple ambassador?

Good job! As we reported last week, the UNC Board of Governors appointed one of our own, Peter Hans, to lead the 17-campus UNC system.

A few months ago, I was introduced to the story of Staff Sgt. Robert Joseph Watkins by his daughter, Eileen Watkins-Navarro.

Although most area cities have called off Independence Day fireworks displays this year, Henderson County is still hosting the annual pyrotechnic salute to America.

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Near Sojong, South Korea, Private Kenneth Shadrick, a 19-year-old infantryman from Skin Fork, West Virginia, becomes the first American reported killed in the Korean War. Shadrick, a member of a bazooka squad, had just fired the weapon at a Soviet-made tank when he looked up to check his aim and ...

On July 5, 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) announces that all person-to-person transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has ceased. In the previous eight months, the disease had killed about 775 people in 29 countries and exposed the dangers of globalization in the ...