Top News Stories of 2012 Impacting The Cove at Celo Mountain

Accomplishments and Proposals Highly Beneficial

for The Cove at Celo Mountain

• Broadband and technology expansion  (See Blog:  Tantalizing Tidbits:  In the News)
• Four-lane highway (See Blog: The Cove at Celo Mountain is Along NC's Newest Scenic Byway)
• Expansion of agriculture and establishment of an ag center (See Blog: Farmers' Markets)
• Sewer service to Micaville (See Blog:  Mountain Heritage Expo  - scroll down for Micaville Initiative)
• Enhanced recreation (See Blog:  It's a Big Deal)
• Completion of new library (See Blog: New Yancey County Library 
• Alcohol sales 
• Promotion of Mt. Mitchell State Park (See Blog:  A Primer of Our Area's Mountains) 
• The county also obtained Scenic Byway status from Mt. Mitchell through South Toe and Burnsville to Madison County.  (See Blog: The Cove at Celo Mountain is Along NC's Newest Scenic Byway)

 

Local businessman Ray Miller of Country Cablevision, Wanda Profitt, and Governor Bev Perdue  discuss Broadband  Grant

Yancey and Mitchell counties will have the fastest Internet capability in all of North Carolina

Country Cablevision, a local company was awarded 25.3million dollars to bring broadband fiber to 97 % of homes and businesses in these two counties making Yancey County a premier place to live according to the project manager.  Hitch – delayed by National Register of Historic Places studying if an old saw mill site was of historic value. (It wasn’t.)

Yancey Times Journal: Yancey County is a Certified Entrepreneurial Community

As a CEC, the county will focus on mentoring, marketing/networking, youth engagement, and hopefully venture capital investment. A key component will be tapping into the wealth of experience available here in the form of local entrepreneurs and those who have retired here or have second homes in Yancey. Date Posted: 1/4/2012

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Yancey Gets Final Approval for Parks Grant

Gov. Bev Perdue officially announced last week that Yancey County has been awarded $115,769 for its Comprehensive Recreation Grounds project off Cane River on Whitt Bottoms. When completed, the park will provide walking trails, river access, baseball/softball fields, soccer fields and basketball and tennis courts.

Toe Valley Watch obtained a $10,000 grant to install river trails at the park. Lowe’s, through a program called Lowe’s Heroes,” is providing $10,000 for in-kind work by employees to install batting cages on the property in conjunction with Yancey County Youth League. “Our parks and open spaces help build the top-ranked quality of life in North Carolina that continues to help us attract new companies and encourage existing ones to expand,”

Micaville's Mountain Heritage Expo Center

Grant money has already been utilized for skylights and basic prep work to turn this former factory into a craft village, expo center, office space, etc.  Consultants with experience in museums and at Disney have plans for a smorgasbord of offerings - from a professional kitchen for public use, a café, Kinko’s type work center for the community, walking trail, expo space, village area, holistic area, locally bottled tea and water, and much more. It is located within 5 minutes of The Cove at Celo Mountain.  More details to come on this soon.

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For more information on news articles:
Yancey Common Times Journal  1/4/12, 1/11/12 and 1/18/12
Advantage West Economic Development Group
Spruce Pine Online (about Toe River Valley Watch)
Toe River Valley Watch