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Boone seems to ban Wilkes residents from all local businesses

Osmosis

Posted 4:12 pm, 05/22/2020

What do you expect from a place that's main publication is called The Watauga Democrat.

tmann

Posted 4:06 pm, 05/22/2020

They can take this action and the residents of Wilkes can make sure none of our money goes there either.

aFicIoNadoS

Posted 4:03 pm, 05/22/2020

Good for Boone

Hot Mess

Posted 4:01 pm, 05/22/2020

They can kiss my ***

MichSt66

Posted 3:40 pm, 05/22/2020

I'd say it's a combo of that and the snowbirds coming back to the county. Mixed with the regular traffic of out of towners that starts around this time.

sparkling water

Posted 3:36 pm, 05/22/2020

You know, this means War.

Tilly22

Posted 3:31 pm, 05/22/2020

Are they going to ask everyone for ID?

antithesis

Posted 3:28 pm, 05/22/2020

The Boone Town Council on Thursday adopted amendments to the town's COVID-19 state of emergency declaration that restrict visitors from entering indoor retail facilities.
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The amendments reference "a significant rise in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in counties near to Boone, including in Wilkes and Burke counties." No other counties are mentioned.


They don't specifically say they're banning Wilkes residents... but they sure do talk about Wilkes a lot in the meeting!

Violations are a class 2 misdemeanor.
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