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Requesting An Absentee Ballot
Many voters will be voting via Absentee Ballot this fall. In order to do that you must request in writing that the Board of Elections send you an Absentee Ballot. The form is available here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/Forms/2023-Absentee-Ballot-Request-English-Fillable.pdf While the deadline for requesting an Absentee Ballot is October 31, 2023 we urge you to do this earlier…
Voting Reminders & Candidate Interviews
Protects | Preserves | Informs | Engages | Unites September 28, 2023 Greetings from BRCA 28605! We welcome our newest members to BRCA & 28605. Thank you for your membership and financial support. BRCA Chair Jean Kitchin and I had the opportunity to interview the candidates last Friday at Town Hall. Those videos are on the BRCA…
Best Mountain Town: Blowing Rock, North Carolina
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Town Manager Position Considered October 4th
PUBLIC NOTICEThe Blowing Rock Town Council will conduct a special meeting on Wednesday, October4, 2023. The meeting will begin at 11:00 a.m. and immediately following the opening ofthe meeting, Town Council will enter closed session, pursuant to NC General Statute 143-318.11. (a) (6), to review applications for the Town Manager position. No other businesswill be…
Clarification on HCP Letter to the Editor
Response to Inaccurate Information As the Chairperson of the Blowing Rock Civic Association, I am writing in an effort to correct the inaccuracies put forth in a letter to the editor on September 15th in the “High Country Press.” The Blowing Rock Civic Association was founded in 2015 by a group of Blowing Rock residents…
Upcoming Political Events
Greetings from BRCA 28605! We trust everyone had a safe and exciting Labor Day Weekend. The next regularly scheduled Town Council meeting will be Tuesday September 12, 2023 at Town Hall at 6:00 PM. The agenda and packet were not available this afternoon. BRCA has scheduled one-on-one interviews with all candidates running for Town Council office…
BRCA Annual Member Meeting 2023
& Broyhill Service Award For immediate release:Blowing Rock, NC; August 10, 2023: The Blowing Rock Civic Association (BRCA) held its eighth annual membership meeting on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at the famous Perry Car Barn in Blowing Rock. It was attended by approximately one hundred fifty members of this active community organization.The BRCA was started…
BRCA Public Position on Parking
August 3, 2023 To Town Council Members and Interim Town Manager by email Date: August 3, 2023 Re: August 8, 2023 Public Hearing The Town Council has given notice that at its meeting on Tuesday, August 8, 2023 it will consider changes to Chapter 6 of the Town Code related to public parking enforcement…
BRCA 2023 Annual Member Meeting
August 10, 2023 Greetings from BRCA 28605! Attention all BRCA members. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGAUGUST 10, 2023RECEPTION: 5:00 PM TIL 7:00 PMMEETING: 5:30 PMMONICA AND CHIP PERRY’S “CAR BARN”MAYVIEW- BLOWING ROCK, NC TROLLEY TRANSPORTATION WILL BE PROVIDED COMMENCING AT 4:30 PMFROM BRAHM PUBLIC PARKING LOT OR RUMPLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PARKING…