🌱 How App State’s Boone-based literacy program is boosting young readers

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In today's newsletter:

• How App State’s Boone-based literacy program is boosting young readers
• How accurate are price scanners at Boone’s big-box stores now?
• Do you recognize this lifted Dodge Ram from a serious Boone crash?

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Windy with periods of sun, with a high of 71 and low of 49 degrees.
• Thursday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 73, low: 50.
• Friday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 71 and low of 52 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Hands-on learning and real-world impact: How App State students are transforming early literacy (appstate.edu) — App State’s Boone campus is driving a fast-growing early literacy program that’s giving K–3 students in Watauga County intensive reading support while training future teachers. Working in schools like Cove Creek, Hardin Park and Green Valley, teacher candidates deliver research-based interventions, track student progress and report strong gains, especially for kindergartners, all while expanding services through the Anderson Reading Clinic in Boone.
   

• Boone Staples Passes Price Scanner Inspection, Pays Final Fine from 2025 Violations (wataugaonline.com) — Shoppers at the Staples on Blowing Rock Road in Boone can now expect accurate prices at the register, after the store finally passed its state price-scanner inspection and paid off all remaining fines from 2025 violations. The article also lists other recent scanner-related penalties for Boone and nearby Watauga County retailers, offering a useful snapshot of where overcharges have been a problem.
   

• Passenger flies from bed of moving pickup and driver never stops, NC police say (charlotteobserver.com) — Boone police are searching for the driver of a dark Dodge Ram after a passenger was thrown from the truck bed near Perkinsville Drive and Grove Street and seriously injured. The late-night April 11 incident is blamed on reckless driving, and investigators are asking for help identifying the lifted truck with distinctive white wheel-well lighting.
   

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📸 Around Boone

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Boone

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Friday April 24

• Shred Truck
  Watauga County Public Library , 140 Queen Street , Boone
  10:00 am
• Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission Meeting
  Boone, NC Calendar , 1500 Blowing Rock Rd , Boone
  2:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• Youth Chess Club
  Watauga County Public Library , 140 Queen Street , Boone
  1:00 pm
• Girls Who Code
  Watauga County Public Library , 140 Queen Street , Boone
  2:00 pm

Monday April 27

• Movie Matinee Monday- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  Watauga County Public Library , 140 Queen Street , Boone
  2:00 pm
• Public Hearing/Planning Commission
  Boone, NC Calendar , 1500 Blowing Rock Rd , Boone
  6:00 pm

Tuesday April 28

• Downtown Boone Development Association
  Boone, NC Calendar , 604 West King St , Boone
  8:30 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday April 22

• Special Storytime: Anne Welsh Artist
  Watauga County Public Library , 140 Queen St , Boone
  11:00 am

Thursday April 23

• A Year wtih Frog and Toad
  Hayes Auditorium , NC-194 , Banner Elk
  6:30 pm

Friday April 24

• A fiber arts getaway
  Meadowbrook Inn , 711 Main St , Blowing Rock
  9:30 am
• Shred Truck
  Watauga County Public Library , 140 Queen Street , Boone
  10:00 am
• 4TH ANNUAL SPRING WOMEN’S SPIRITUAL RETREAT IN BLOWING ROCK, NC
  Blowing Rock Conference Center , 1818 Goforth Rd , Blowing Rock
  12:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• It’s that time of year – again!
  Springtime means our native black bears become more active and remain so through summer and fall. Time to remove those wildlife attractants, leash up… (Nextdoor )
• Hey all.
  me again im looking for a portable washing machine and a portable dryer that work good for a reasonable price thanks (Nextdoor Perkinsville Dr)

• Chili's Grill & Bar posted a job opening for Janitor - Boone Chili's in Boone. Apply here.
• Sheetz, Inc. posted a job opening for Cleaning Team Member - #851 in Boone. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Boone here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Blowing Rock

• Best draft picks in Carolina Panthers history (wataugademocrat.com)
• Blue Ridge Conservancy inviting community to Earth Week Clean-Up Day (wataugademocrat.com)
• See 6 western NC destinations that are perfect for a long weekend trip (cardinalpine.com)

Banner Elk

• Coach K's grandson charged with misdemeanor DWI in collision that killed teen who was riding bicycle (averyjournal.com)
• Avery News Notes — April 22, 2026 (averyjournal.com)

West Jefferson

• West Wilkes sweeps Ashe County baseball (ashepostandtimes.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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