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The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality recently awarded the Wilkes Solid Waste Department a $570,000 grant, announced County Manager John Yates during the April 7 meeting of the Wilkes County ... Not long after publishing his “Historical Sketches of Wilkes County” in 1902, John P.
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Crouch launched a decades-long career as a New York City newsman and seldom, if ever, returned ... The 2026 inductees in the Wilkes County Hall of Fame are R.G. Absher, Terry Bumgarner, Ward and Kate Eller, Bill Harris, Devin Lyall, Shirley Randleman, Thomas Story and Annie Winkler, ... Plans to help make up for the Wilkes County Schools’ loss of state funds and avoid exhausting the district’s available fund balance next year were told during a 2 ½-hour ...
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A wildfire in McGrady that began late Sunday afternoon burned over 600 acres and was about 20% contained by Monday evening, said Wilkes County Ranger Jeremiah Greene of the N.C. The Wilkes County and other public school districts across the state are facing financial crises due partly to soaring operational costs but primarily because of years of inadequate financial support ... The Wilkes County Master Gardener Program will host a community Seed Swap at the Wilkes County Farmers Market in the Yadkin Valley Marketplace along the Central Business District Loop downtown ... The Wilkes Cooperative Extension Service will hold a hands-on mushroom log workshop starting at 10 a.m. April 15 at the Wilkes County Agricultural Center, conference room C, at 416 Executive ...