Why a "Free" Puppy Can Cost a Fortune: A Heart-to-Heart with Yancey County Humane Society | WNC Times Yancey County -- We’ve all seen the posts: a box of "free puppies" at a flea market or a "cheap" litter listed on a local trade site. It’s tempting. B...

Why a "Free" Puppy Can Cost a Fortune: A Heart-to-Heart with Yancey County Humane Society wnctimes.com/article/why-... #WNC #WNCnews #NC #PetAdo[tion #Dogs #DogLovers #PetRescue #YanceyCounty #Asheville

Yancey County Humane Society: Parvo Get Your Dog Vaccinated | WNC Times Yancey County -- March 5, 2026: Serious Warning from the Yancey County Humane Society: We're fixing to get REALLY REAL with the residents of Yancey C...

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Yancey County Schools Awarded CTE Grant to Expand Homebuilding Career Programs wnctimes.com/article/yanc... #WNCnews #wnc #Career #TechnicalEducation #YanceyCounty #Employment #RealWorldSkills #Construction #Jobs #JobTraining #Asheville #NCNeWS #NorthCarolina #Grants #Education #HighSchool

Winter Weather Advisory: Black Ice Threatens WNC Morning Commute wnctimes.com/article/wint... #winterweatheradvisory #wnc #wncmountains #buncombecounty #avlnews #asheville #yanceycounty #burkemountains #mcdowellcounty #Swannanoa #Fairview, #Edneyville #localnews #weather #WNCnews

Two People Arrested for Identity Theft After Traffic Stop wnctimes.com/article/two-... #nc #wncnews #wnc #yanceycounty #northcarolina #localnews

Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+ content Yancey prepares to exit library system. Grassroots group hires law firm to counter those plans, which they say violate rights, waste money.

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#NorthCarolina
#YanceyCounty
#RegionalLibrary
#ContestLGBTQcontent

Donate to Help Save Our Library—Targeted After Surviving Helene, organized by Landon Beaver TL;DR: Yancey County Commissioners voted to leave the regional l… Landon Beaver needs your support for Help Save Our Library—Targeted After Surviving Helene

Want to help out?

Make a donation now to help this local #Library take a stand against hate

#LibrariesAreForEveryone #Pride #NorthCarolina #YanceyCounty #FirstAmendment #libraries #WNC #Burnsville

Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+ content Yancey prepares to exit library system. Grassroots group hires law firm to counter those plans, which they say violate rights, waste money.

Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+ content

.. local bigots are trying to destroy the library where I grew up in #NorthCarolina

It's shameful

#Libraries #Pride #FirstAmendment #WNC #Burnsville #YanceyCounty

Pride Cometh Before The Fall After two years of pressure over LGBTQ materials, county commissioners voted to leave the regional library system.

Pride Cometh Before The Fall

.. hate is destroying the local library in #NorthCarolina where I grew up

#Pride #Libraries #FreeSpeech #WNC #YanceyCounty

Donate to Help Save Our Library—Targeted After Surviving Helene, organized by Landon Beaver TL;DR: Yancey County Commissioners voted to leave the regional li… Landon Beaver needs your support for Help Save Our Library—Targeted After Surviving Helene

My hometown library is under attack - all over a #Pride display

Please help them fight back in a case that has important implications for all of #NorthCarolina

#libraries #WNC #GoFundMe #YanceyCounty #LGBTQ

Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way. Here Are 5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane. After four months of reporting, ProPublica found that the warnings about Helene were eerily accurate. Yet, local residents remained largely unaware of the enormity of danger approaching as the storm c...

How can those who #NeedToHear be reached in time?

#YanceyCounty
#NorthCarolina
#Hurricane
#Devastation
#HurricaneHelene
#FEMA

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Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way. Here Are 5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane. After four months of reporting, ProPublica found that the warnings about Helene were eerily accurate. Yet, local residents remained largely unaware of the enormity of danger approaching as the storm c...

How can those he #NeedToHear be reached in time? #YanceyCounty
#NorthCarolina
#Hurricane
#Devastation
#HurricaneHelene
#FEMA

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Helene’s Unheard Warnings As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few ...

From pre-Hurricane in #NorthCarolina.

#Hurricane
#Devastation
#HurricaneHelene
#YanceyCounty
#FEMA

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Donate to Help Save Our Library—Targeted After Surviving Helene, organized by Landon Beaver TL;DR: Yancey County Commissioners voted to leave the regional li… Landon Beaver needs your support for Help Save Our Library—Targeted After Surviving Helene

This case could set a precedent for NC and help protect libraries across the state.

Other counties in WNC and across NC are facing the same kinds of attacks.

Please share and support our fight:
🔗 gofund.me/a3dd85dc
#RightToRead #SaveOurLibrary #YanceyCounty #FirstAmendment #WNC

Severe Storms to Threaten Western North Carolina Overnight Local news, tourism, rentals, hiking, waynesville, maggie valley, lake junaluska, asheville, north carolina, sylva, dillsboro, cullowhee, bryson city, nantahala

Severe Storms to Threaten Western North Carolina Overnight wnctimes.com/news/10403-s... #wnc #wncmountains #wncnews #weather #weatherwarning #storm #ncnews #northcarolinanews #localweather #localnews #haywoodcounty #hendersoncountync #yanceycounty #buncombecounty #maconcountync #jacksonsountync

This is a tremendous article and read. I truly wondered what was going on to the north of Asheville where the mountains squeeze out so much moisture. I never really saw much video from Yancey County. Give yourself 10 or so minutes to read. Bookmark/Save it for later. #Helene #YanceyCounty #ncwx

Yancey County Traveling and thinking about books and things

Continuing to catch up on my little travel blogs after deciding Instagram wasn't the best place for the type of blogs I wanted to write.

#travel #blog #blogs #blogging #yancey #yanceycounty #100counties #nc

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Hopeful morning light of spring.
#Gardening
#pansies
#NCmountains
#YanceyCounty

Boulder in the middle of the Buncombe Horse Trail beneath Mt Mitchell State Park #mtmitchell #ncstateparks #buncombehorsetrail #blackmountains #hikewnc #yanceycounty #bigrocks

Now imagine having had only 5 part-days of school in the past 9 weeks, trying to get in these 3 weeks before winter break. #yanceycounty