LOCAL NEWS
EAST BEND — East Bend officials will hold their second meeting Thursday night to discuss long-term planning priorities. The first meeting in November generated topics such as a tow[...]
17 Apr 2013
EAST BEND — Planning Board Chairman Stewart Maples has pledged $1,000 for a new town park. Maples, who has been a strong advocate of a park since the topic first emerged, said that[...]
09 Apr 2013
EAST BEND — No one seems to know the exact date it was built or a lot about its operation. Residents here just know that the old Wilhelm mill has been part of the local landscape f[...]
06 Apr 2013
EAST BEND — A town park is at the top of a wish list, according to a recent meeting of the town commissioners and planning board. Former Mayor Stewart Maples and planning board cha[...]
30 Mar 2013
An East Bend man is in the Yadkin County Jail after he was arrested Monday on multiple felony counts. David Lee Garris, 33, is charged with breaking and entering, felony larceny, a[...]
20 Mar 2013
A Forbush High School custodian has been charged with having sex with a student. According to the Yadkin County Sheriff’s Office, James Larry Sheek, 68, of Yadkinville, was a[...]
16 Mar 2013
Opinion
I serve on the Coalition to Protect ALL NC Families steering committee. I read your story because it was found and distributed to all of us on the committee. I was so moved, I am c[...]
26 Apr 2012
Love speaks the truth. It does not deceive. Who likes being lied to? Truth and genuine love are trustworthy. It is not hate to want truthful, trustworthy definitions. Marriage is d[...]
24 Apr 2012
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. –Jimmy Carter In the 1950s and 1960s, African Americans were fighting — and sometimes[...]
15 Apr 2012
Features and Columns
You wouldn’t think it would take a lawsuit to get people to clean up their property. But that’s exactly what has happened in at least three instances in the county. In [...]
14 Aug 2012
I’ve been covering Yadkin County politics for some 20 years or so and I’ve never seen one issue so dominate the landscape. Depending upon which position you took, it co[...]
19 May 2012
The Yadkin Valley News welcomes guest columns and opinion pieces. Email them to Andy@yadkinvalleynews.com or mail to Andy Matthews, 305 West Main Street, East Bend, N.C. 27018. Th[...]
25 Apr 2012
EAST BEND — Pauline Oldham Smitherman was one of the most generous people I have ever known. She delivered acts of kindness and generosity that are rarely seen in today’s soc[...]
18 Apr 2012
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