You have found your dream home, have it under contract, and it is getting down to the wire! But wait, you still need to get the utilities in your name! When, where, how?!?
These are all familiar questions when buying a home, and we are here to help you every step of the way!
Most of our homes in Ashe County and the surrounding counties have Blue Ridge Energies for their electricity. Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation has been around since 1936, which is pretty impressive! They have come a long way since 1936 when the cooperative’s power lines were energized to light up the landscapes of our beautiful rural northwest North Carolina counties.
The official “birth” of Blue Ridge Electric was recorded on September 19, 1936. It was that day a small group of farmers met with G. F. Messick in the jury room of the Caldwell County Courthouse to organize what was then called Caldwell County Electric Membership Corporation. This same year, the movement for cooperative rural electrification was in such high demand all across the country that Congress passed legislation making the REA permanent with provisions for cooperatives.
By 1938, Blue Ridge Electric began serving its first members under the name of Caldwell Mutual Corporation: 155 homes, six stores, four churches and a few schools in Caldwell County. Later that year, Watauga County was energized by the cooperative and by the following year, Alleghany County saw its first wondrous glow of lights. Two years later, the cooperative rechartered under the name Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation which now serves some 77,831 meters over approximately 1,525 square miles.
Blue Ridge Energy can be contacted by phone at 1-800-451-5474 or locally at 336-846-7138 be sure to check them out online at https://www.blueridgeenergy.com/
SkyLine Membership Corporation is your local provider of advanced communications technology. We are a member-owned cooperative, established in 1951 to bring telephone service to rural residents of Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga counties.
Today, SkyLine is the largest of eight telephone cooperatives in North Carolina. SkyLine serves a five-county, 840-square-mile area in northwest North Carolina and east Tennessee. Democratically governed by a nine-member board of directors representing the membership, SkyLine’s corporate offices are located at 1200 N.C. Highway 194 North in West Jefferson. SkyLine operates customer service centers in Banner Elk, Boone, Sparta and West Jefferson.
SkyLine, along with two other North Carolina telephone membership corporations, is an owner of Carolina West Wireless, a regional wireless carrier. In 1998, SkyLine established SkyBest Communications, Inc. as a wholly-owned subsidiary to assume operations of SkyLine’s deregulated businesses, including broadband internet, security services, television, video content production and more.
SkyLine has Internet, Telephone, Security, Television, Medical Alert Services, and you can even bundle your programs together for more savings.
SkyLine can be contacted by phone at 336-877-1350 and online https://www.skybest.com/
