Friends – I am pleased to announce that the Blowing Rock Civic Association has formed a Development Evaluation Committee to evaluate commercial and residential developments that are proposed for Blowing Rock. this committee is composed of three engineers with extensive construction experience, a real estate professional with extensive development experience and an attorney with extensive…

Friends – Richard Puckett of Premier Sotheby’s International has provided the following interesting information about the subject home sales from 12/14/2016 to 11/9/2017: Seven of the subject homes were sold at the following prices:   $    960,000 $ 1,100,000 $ 1,300,000 $ 1,375,000 $ 1,377,000 $ 1,575,000 $ 2,000,000

Friends – Richard Puckett of Premier Sotheby’s International has provided us with the following very interesting information about the Blowing Rock sales from 1/1/2017 to 11/14/2017 of homes valued at $ 800,000.00 and above:   1. Five homes were sold during the period.   2. The sold prices for the homes were as follows: $…

Fellow Citizens In response to the following e-mails, I will not be mayor of our fine town until next month, but as a citizen I feel that is is in the best interest of our citizens to hold the retreat in Blowing Rock at a venue that can benefit from our presence. Lets keep our…

Friends – It’s a very busy period for Blowing Rock Town government. The following are significant issues: 1. Removal of Major Memorial Park Trees – After ignoring a March 2016 report by an N.C. Forest Service arborist for more than a year and half some town officials recently began a move to eliminate a number…

Honorable Mayor-Elect, Mayor Pro Tem, Distinguished Council Members:   Congratulations to those who were elected in our election earlier this month. Thanks to all of you for your service and commitment to Blowing Rock. One of the major issues in the recent election was the concern about inadequate transparency in the operation of town government….

  By David Rogers. November 17, 2017. BLOWING ROCK, NC – For a government by, of, and for the people, “the people” — INDIVIDUALLY — must participate for it to be effective.  Those who fail to participate really have nothing to complain about. Not to take anything away from the fine individuals who were recently elected…

ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING ON THE 12 TOWN HOMES BEHIND SPECKED TROUT   THERE WILL BE A MEEING AT TOWN HALL NOVEMBER 30, 2017 AT 5:30 PM TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSED TOWN HOMES BEHIND THE SPECKED TROUT ALONG 221 AND MORNINGSIDE DR.   THERE IS A CONDITIONAL ZONING REQUEST ON THIS PROPOSAL AND LAW REQUIRES…

  Sue – After carefully reading the two reports on the problems of the subject trees, absorbing information from various town residents and talking with one of the High Country’s best landscaping professionals the following conclusions have emerged:1. We now face a crisis that could have been avoided in one of our biggest attractions. Appropriate…