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Burnsville TRAC gallery derailed Arts Council announces need to close Main Street location By Jonathan Austin Yancey County News
Jonathan Austin/Yancey County News Anglers are always happy to show off their catch on the first day of hatchery-supported fishing in Yancey County. See more photos inside!
Independence Day fireworks set for July 7 in Burnsville The Yancey County Board of Commissioners approved the annual Fourth of July fireworks display to take place on Saturday, July 7, this year. The move came at the commission’s monthly meeting. County Manager Nathan Bennett told commissioners that the cost for having the annual fireworks display was tremendously reduced if they continued to schedule the event on any day that week other than on the Fourth of July, which falls on a Wednesday this year. He said the fireworks provider charges in the $5,000 range for other days, but about four times that amount if a municipality expected the event on the Fourth. As in years past, the commissioners agreed. Bennett said his office had been getting calls from people out of state saying they were planning their vacations based on when Burnsville would be lighting the fuses, so a date needed to be set. “They plan their visit around this,” Bennett said. Traditionally, the fireworks are visible across the downtown Burnsville area.
Facing “economic realities” and other stress factors, The Toe River Arts Council will close its Burnsville gallery this summer. “I wanted to cry my eyes out” after the decision was reached by the TRAC board of directors, Executive Director Denise Cook told the Yancey County News this week. “But still, this is going to give us the opportunity to expand for all the arts.” TRAC, a non-profit organization founded in 1976 to promote the arts in Mitchell and Yancey counties, operates two galleries – one in Spruce Pine and one in Burnsville. But the organization owns the Spruce Pine building and rents the West Main Street location
in Burnsville. Staffed mainly through funding from the Seniors in Community program, which paid a number of people to work at the gallery, TRAC maintained both gallery locations. But with the senior funding being cut, the council board realized two galleries might be more than they could support. In an email to members, the council said that while “plans are still being developed … we will be moving out of our Burnsville Gallery by the first of July. The TRAC Board has made this decision in response to new demands on the arts council, economics realities and the gradual reduction of staffing from the Seniors in Community program.” See page 2
Jonathan Austin/Yancey County News This man was injured Wednesday afternoon when a car went out of control on N.C. 197 and caareened into the creek near the old Unimen site. Rescuers cut the roof off the sedan to free the man, who was transported to the hospital.
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