Four months after Helene's devastation, Mitchell County continues to rebuild, recover
Nowhere is the rebuild more evident than in downtown Spruce Pine, where Amy O'Conner owns a building full of businesses with her husband, Danny Barcelona. Closest to the North Toe River on Locust ...
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2nd wildfire breaks out in Helene-ravaged North Carolina county as "significant progress" made in Crooked Creek Fire, officials say
Two fires are now burning in western North Carolina's McDowell County, just four months after it was hard-hit by Hurricane ...
Evacuation orders lifted, McDowell Co. wildfire now 100% contained
OLD FORT, N.C. – An outside fire has been reported off of Bat Cave Road in Old Fort. Reports say that the fire was caused by ...
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Largest Spruce Pine quartz mine ‘ramping up’ after Helene battered mountain town
During most of the 20th century, local miners extracted mica and feldspar from the Mitchell County ... North Carolina’s most ...