Plant drive to benefit Hurricane Helene victims

Commissioners take stance on emergency legislation, received recovery update

WATAUGA — At its recent meeting, the Watauga County Board of Commissioners received an update on Hurricane Helene recovery efforts and voted on key emergency services legislation.

Plant drive to benefit Hurricane Helene victims

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — David Crockett High School students have teamed up with businesses and a local disaster recovery group to host a plant drive for those impacted by Hurricane Helene. The David Crockett Future Farmers of America (FFA) is looking for volunteers and donated plants to be planted at newly built houses along the Nolichucky River. Students will use the skills learned in FFA to help those affected. "With Hurricane Helene, ho…

Hurricane Helene is still being felt by the Carter County Budget Committee

ELIZABETHTON — It has been more than a half year since Hurricane Helene devastated the region. The Budget Committee of the Carter County Commission is certainly feeling the cost of recovering from that destruction.

North Redington Beach defends post-storms leadership

NORTH REDINGTON BEACH — The newly elected Board of Commissioners for North Redington Beach gathered May 8 for their first regular monthly meeting following months of hurricane recovery efforts. Six months after Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated the barrier island…

After the flood: Life and fishing in western N.C. post-Hurricane Helene

I’ve known Tim O’Donnell for well over a decade, and I’d never heard this particular tinge of panic permeating his voice until this moment in western North Carolina. Tim had just started fishing a tiny section of the Pigeon River’s west fork, a hole about the size of a five-gallon Harbor Freight bucket, when his indicator suddenly disappeared from the water’s surface and his 3wt Thomas and Thomas rod nearly bent in half.

CVS reopens months after Helene - Hendersonville Lightning

Emergency responders gave employees of the CVS on South Main Street just 20 minutes to evacuate on the afternoon of September 26.