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🌱 Boone's closest races remain within recount range after provisional count

Boone, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min read

Good morning Boone! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Boone's closest races remain within recount range after provisional count
  • App State researchers find Fort Defiance beneath a Lenoir field
  • Ski film Days Off heads to Boone’s Appalachian Theatre

Also on today's calendar: School performance: MOMIX: Botanica and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 63 and low of 46 degrees.
  • Thursday: Breezy and cooler with rain, temps: high: 51, low: 32.
  • Friday: Showers around; windy, colder, with a high of 38 and low of 27 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Provisional ballots widen Democrats' leads in District 5, House 93 races (wataugademocrat.com) — Watauga's provisional ballots left county election outcomes unchanged while Democrats widened their leads in two close races representing Boone. Chuck Hubbard led Virginia Foxx by 325 votes, and Charlie Wallin led Ray Pickett by 345, both within recount thresholds. The county elections board will consider two ballot challenges at its November 13 canvass.
   

2. App State researchers discover footprint of Revolutionary War-era Fort Defiance (appstate.edu) — App State researchers have located the footprint of Revolutionary War-era Fort Defiance near Lenoir, settling a long-standing question about where it stood. Their discovery will guide an augmented reality reconstruction for visitors. Related university research identified 105 unmarked graves of enslaved people, prompting efforts to honor those who lived and worked there.
   

3. Warren Miller's Days Off Film Premiere (beechmountainresort.com) — Warren Miller’s latest ski film, Days Off, comes to downtown Boone’s Appalachian Theatre on Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $20 for adults and $15 for students, with an early-arrival raffle offering a chance to win a Beech Mountain Resort season pass.
   

4. App State Sports In Brief: Nov. 9 (wataugademocrat.com) — App State’s basketball teams opened their home schedules in Boone with runaway wins, as the women beat Montreat 107-43 and the men defeated Christendom 108-43. All 18 men’s players scored, including Boone native and Watauga High graduate Jackson Love, who hit a 3-pointer in his collegiate debut.
   

5. US House District 5 race in North Carolina still uncalled as Democratic challenger leads by 99 votes (wbtv.com) — The congressional race covering Boone remained uncalled in this November 10 report, with Democrat Chuck Hubbard holding a reported 99-vote lead over longtime Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx. Hubbard was attending new-member orientation in Washington while awaiting provisional ballot counts, and said he was prepared for a recount if Foxx requested one.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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