Sid’s on Main closes: New restaurant moving in
After a solid three-year run in Canton, Sid’s on Main is closing, leaving a huge vacancy in downtown.
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Evacuation at Tuscola: All OK after threatening email sent to high school
Things are back to normal at Tuscola High School after an emailed threat prompted a complete evacuation of the school…
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Franklin approves Siler road apartments
Plans for a 60-unit apartment complex in Franklin are moving forward after Workforce Homestead received approval for a special permit…
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Franklin mayor warns of tough budget year
Now that town aldermen have a preliminary budget in front of them, the Franklin leaders are ready to begin an…
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Macon schools request $7.9 million from county
As the Macon County budget process gets under way, education spending will be one of the meatier items up for…
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Fracking regulators served with lawsuit
A section of legislation giving the Mining and Energy Commission the authority to decide which local ordinances are OK and…
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Jackson County comes up short on $4.8 million ask from school district
Leaking roofs, technology needs and impending state cuts prompted Jackson County Schools to put out a hefty ask to the…
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Haywood Schools prepare for the worst as it awaits funding word from state
Haywood County Schools will cut its budget by $900,000 next year, plus tap its cash reserves to the tune of…
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Bringing the past to life
When Kim Sutton puts on his Civil War attire, he’s immediately transported to an era when a national conflict held…
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Civil War commemoration attracts history fans
For 10 years, museum curator Jackie Stephens has prepped The Shelton House for Civil War commemorations.
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Take a Civil War tour in Haywood County
With the help of Civil War enthusiasts in Haywood County, The Shelton House Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts has put…
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The Fall of Will Thomas
William Holland Thomas, a self-made, prominent businessman, a revered chief in the Cherokee tribe, a politician and a colonel in…
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Like a Good Neighbor: The Eastern Cherokee and the Confederacy
Not all the Eastern Cherokee supported the Confederacy. Several served with the Union army during the Civil War and were…
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The case of Haywood’s missing students: a cause-and-effect story
Haywood County Schools have been losing students slowly but steadily over the past decade. Despite high academic performance, the school…
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Cherokee members threaten to sue over raises, back pay for elected officals
When the Cherokee Tribal Council voted to give itself a hefty pay raise last fall — $10,000 extra a year…
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Final round for Cullowhee standards
Cullowhee residents crowded the basketball court at the Cullowhee Recreation Center last week for a chance to sound off during…
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Bryson businesses unite
There is power in numbers, and businesses in Bryson City are ready to join forces to have their voices heard. …
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If we build it, will they stay? Bryson City pedestrian plaza waiting for town approval
The Great Smoky Mountain Railroad introduces new people to all that Bryson City has to offer throughout the year, yet…
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Wrench in the works: Haywood Schools grapple with enrollment wildcard
Haywood School Superintendent Anne Garrett came up with a novel approach for predicting how many students a new charter school…
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WCU LLC to spur economic development
The Western Carolina University College of Business is establishing a new, for-profit limited liability company designed to provide entrepreneurial business,…
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Public hearing planned on fire tax for Cashiers-Highlands
A public hearing at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 30, at the Cashiers-Glenville Recreation Center will take the public’s temperature on…
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Republicans ask for more partisanship on ballots
Voters could see more Ds and Rs on their election ballot in 2016 if Republicans push through legislation to make…
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Future unclear for planned Cullowhee development
Earlier this year, it looked like Monarch Ventures, a Charlotte-based company that’s been trying for years to build a high-density…
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Fraternity gets five-year suspension
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will be absent from Western Carolina University’s roster of Greek life opportunities until 2020, following…
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Haywood Regional Medical Center takes over Canton clinic
Haywood Regional Medical Center’s recent decision to purchase the Evergreen Family Medical Center in Canton will keep Evergreen employees from…
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New apartment complex in the works for Sylva
Plans are under way to build a new apartment complex near — but not in — the town of Sylva,…
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Turning through the years: Community invited to Carolina Wood Turning Company reunion
The furniture manufacturer remembered as Carolina Wood Turning Company has been closed for more than 30 years, yet the smell…
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Haywood Schools performance climbs high in tandem with county funding support
Haywood County Schools will get a modest 2 percent increase each year for the next three years in its student…
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HCC enrollment dips as economy improves
Marlowe Mager isn’t an economist by trade, but a little-known data set at his fingertips puts him on par with…
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Exchanging students, exchanging cultures
When Donna Bell invited the first exchange student into her home seven years ago, she had no idea the lasting…
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Haywood man fatally shot trying to rob marijuana growers
A man attempting to rob alleged pot growers and dealers in the Bethel community of Haywood County was shot and…
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Terrace Hotel renovation reaches finish line in time for spring conference season
About 200 people gathered for the ribbon cutting of a $3.2-million renovation of the Terrace Hotel at Lake Junaluska, the…
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It takes a village: Habitat for Humanity to build new community in Waynesville
As the old saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child.
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Nibbling at the elephant: Plan to flip abandoned factory into community center inches forward
The old Drexel furniture factory in Whittier isn’t producing much these days, unless you count bird nests and ivy vines…
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Is that a knuckleboom outside my window?
A new addition will soon be added to the town of Waynesville’s street fleet.
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House bill could make Cherokee a little less dry
Breweries could be built and alcohol served at special events in Cherokee, if a House bill currently awaiting hearing in…
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Haywood farmers to lawmakers: enough with the regulations
Haywood County farmers caught some face time with elected leaders this week over heaping plates of bacon, eggs, grits, biscuits…
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Festival frenzy fueling local economies
As a tourism expert in the Southeast, Dr. Steve Morse has been asked to judge competitions at festivals all over…
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Conference highlights native culture as integral to addressing health issues
It was a century ago that Beverly Kiohawiton Cook’s relative was taken from his family and shipped off to Carlisle…
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FBI investigating apparent homicide in the Smokies
A Whittier man was discovered dead in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park during the early morning hours of March…
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Trash being tossed on Tuckasegee River bank
Barbara Robinson of Bryson City drives by the Tuckasegee River on a daily basis, but lately the peaceful view of…
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Maggie Valley gears up for spring cleaning
Telling people what to do with their property is not an easy job, even when a town’s local economy may…
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Canton looks to set commercial building standards
Downtown Canton has seen better days. A once vibrant and bustling Main Street is now struggling to hang on to…
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Fracking falls under industrial development rules, planning board says
Discussion about a new industrial development ordinance is just getting going in the Jackson County Planning Board, but the board…
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Jackson jail didn’t follow detoxification, monitoring rules prior to inmate suicide
A state investigation into jail conditions in Jackson County turned up a passel of compliance issues and a mandate that…
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State senate rematch already in the making
Last fall’s election is barely in the rearview mirror, but battle lines are already being staked out for 2016. And…
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Accounting fumble, superfluous zero blemishes HCC audit
Haywood Community College had to pay back $126,000 in state funding after accidentally inflating its enrollment numbers. The state doles…
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Haywood Fairgrounds scuttled as potential animal shelter site, but new site already in the wings
Haywood County is back on the prowl for potential sites to build a new $3 million animal shelter to replace…
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Macon commissioners give board new direction
With the six-month process of getting a nuisance noise ordinance passed behind them, members of the Macon County Planning Board…
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