🌱 How a new easement just reshaped Valle Crucis’s future forever

Hello Valle Crucis! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• How a new easement just reshaped Valle Crucis’s future forever
• What forgotten Valle Crucis school moment resurfaced in this week’s archives?

Today's riddle: What happened to the pregnant cat that ate yarn? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Rather cloudy, with a high of 70 and low of 53 degrees.
• Wednesday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 75, low: 57.
• Thursday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 73 and low of 61 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Valle Crucis Conference Center, BRC continue to protect historic campus and headwater streams (wataugademocrat.com) — A major new conservation easement is permanently protecting 86.7 acres of the Valle Crucis Conference Center campus, including forests, farmland, and headwater streams of Crab Orchard Creek. Blue Ridge Conservancy and the Episcopal Diocese have now conserved over 2,100 acres in the Valle Crucis area, safeguarding scenic views, river access, trails, and historic farmland that define daily life and recreation for local residents.
   

• This week in the archives: Tavern fight, welcoming the future, improving 321 (wataugademocrat.com) — Local archive clips revisit Watauga County moments, from a 1979 Blowing Rock tavern dispute and an early mobile MRI visit to Boone, to kids practicing soccer at Valle Crucis Elementary. The piece also recalls debates over improving U.S. 321 and snapshots of school safety drills and everyday life around the county.
   

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📸 Around Valle Crucis

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Valle Crucis

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday October 3

• Seven Nations at the Outlander Gathering →
  The Mast Farm Inn, Valley Crucis
  6:00 pm

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📣 Valle Crucis Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday September 8

• Historic Preservation Commission: Quasi-Judicial →
  Boone, NC Calendar, 680 W King Street, Boone
  3:00 pm
• Afternoon Art: September 8 →
  Blowing Rock NC
  3:30 pm

Wednesday September 9

• Town Council Regular Meeting →
  Council Chambers, 1500 Blowing Rock Rd, Boone
  9:00 am
• Play & Learn Group →
  Watauga County Public Library, 140 Queen St, Boone
  11:30 am
• The Postpartum Circle →
  Boone Unitarian Universalist, 381 E King St, Boone
  11:30 am
• Wildflower Bingo →
  1818 Goforth Road, Blowing Rock
  5:30 pm
• Mindfulness Meditation Group →
  Blowing Rock NC
  5:30 pm

Thursday September 10

• All Things Tomatoes: Preparing the Bounty →
  Watauga County Agricultural Conference Center, 252 Poplar Grove Road, Boone
• App State presents: The Appalachian Oral History Project — Blowing Rock Art & History Museum →
  Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, 159 Ginny Stevens Ln, Blowing Rock
  11:00 am
• Blowing Rock Thursday Market →
  Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce, 132 Park Ave, Blowing Rock
  12:00 pm
• Elevated Dads →
  The Children’s Council, 225 Birch St, Boone
  5:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Manpower posted a job opening for Hotel Housekeeper in Boone. Apply here.
• Appalachian State University posted a job opening for Support Services Associate in Boone. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Valle Crucis here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Banner Elk

• Jeff Corwin partners with Lees-McRae College for new North Carolina television series, 'Jeff Corwin's Southern Wild' (reflector.com)
• Rescue Team Extracts Injured Hiker From Avery County Trail (whky.com)

Boone

• Jim Vancleve To Be Inducted Into National Fiddler Hall Of Fame (antimusic.com)
• App State enrollment sees small dip as online, graduate, transfer numbers hit records (wataugademocrat.com)
• App at a glance: Sept. 7-12 (theappalachianonline.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: She had mittens! (Thank you April M. for sending it in!)
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