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Additional power outages occurred on the Duke Energy system in Wilkes County Sunday night and Monday morning, raising the total to 2,952 customers without electricity at 8:45 a.m. today.

Wilkes County officials announced that an emergency shelter opened at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Wilkes Senior Center (former Fairplains Elementary School).

Boone-based Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization, has revealed plans for expanding its administrative and training footprint off N.C. 268 East in North Wilkesboro.

Forecasters are calling for a significant accumulation of snow this weekend in the Southeastern U.S., with the largest totals likely in northwestern North Carolina and Southwest Virginia.