Angel Wood watched her 6-year-old son wave a homemade sign reading, “We deserve clean air,” outside the courthouse. As residents of Rainbow Trail neighborhood, Wood and her son joined the recently reignited fight against Appalachian Materials, the company that nearly constructed an asphalt plant in the family’s neighborhood four years ago. At a rally held an hour before the April 16 Watauga...

As DoorDash enters the delivery service market in Boone, other delivery services are not worried about a shift in dynamics in the industry. Other delivery services in Boone include Boone Delivery, which launched in July, and Bite Squad, which bought Boone Takeout in May. Lee Hornish, owner of Boone Delivery, said his business is different from other delivery services in Boone because all parts of...