Robbins Girls Resign Management Positions At The Rock
Two very prominent members of the Robbins family have residgned their management positions at The Blowing Rock attraction. The announcement of their resignation was made this week by Peggy Robbins Sellers, who has been manager at the landmark attraction since 1972. The other Robbins family member that resigned was Peggy’s daughter, Sara Golini, grandaughter of the man who established The Rock as an attraction in 1933, Grover C. Robbins, who many call the “Father of Tourism in the Mountains”. Both resignations are as of April 30, 2007.

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Number 12 Will Continue To Roll On High Country Tracks Through 2010

Tweetsie Railroad got a nice present for its Golden Anniversary: a renewed lease that will keep the Wild West theme park at its current location for at least the next four years. Chris Robbins, general manager of Tweetsie, said the agreement recently had been reached with Dee Arthur Properties, a group that owns 142 acres of the park territory between Boone and Blowing Rock. The lease had been set to expire after the season, which might have forced a move from the site where the Tweetsie whistle first blew in 1957. 
  

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Bear Cubs Will Not Be A Part Of The Grandfather Mountain Experience This Season, Say Officials

There will be no bear cubs in the Grandfather Mountain wildlife habitats this summer, and probably not for many summers to come. The management of Grandfather Mountain made the decision not to allow its bears to reproduce -- because baby bears grow up, and because responsible options for placing maturing bears are becoming increasingly scarce.

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Forest Management Plan

A fight between North Carolina High Country conservation and tourism officials and the United States Forest Service over the Forest Management Plan for the Globe Basin just southwest of Blowing Rock will, more than likely, be decided not by one person reflecting the decision of the Forest Service, but by a federal judge 3,000 mile away from the confrontation.

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Derby Winners Announced

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