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Working farmland protection plan being crafted in Swain
Swain County farmers, landowners, and other interested individuals are invited to share their thoughts and idea on a new farmland…
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I feel the earth move…
It may not have shaken the Richter scale like the stampede of Republican lawmakers and their realtor and developer lobbyists…
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Weather or not: Local Yokel Weather fine tunes forecasts for your neck of the woods
Have you ever been told by the evening news to expect three inches of snow overnight, but after stocking up…
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Historian presents a factual story of Cleopatra
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” — Cicero, 106 B.C. Stacy…
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A different perspective on guns and government
To the Editor: As someone who has lived in four different countries and traveled to several others over the last…
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Shame on Jack Debnam and Jackson’s citizens
To the Editor: Friends, they’ve out-waited us. And, motivated by the smell of money, they appear to have outlasted us…
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Some want to lead by using fear
To the Editor: Don’t let anyone tell you there’s no conspiracy or that conspirators are not busily at work here…
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‘Gun Free Zones’ are danger zones
To the Editor: Legislation has created a zone where the only people protected by a “gun free zone” are the…
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U.S. Postal Service should be left intact
To the Editor: We have just been through a holiday season during which the U.S. Postal Service and its workers…
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State GOP leaders’ tax plan would benefit wealthy
By Martin Dyckman • Guest Columnist A 1996 New Yorker cartoon — poking fun at Steve Forbes’s presidential campaign plank…
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Muddy waters: WNC feels the blues following unrelenting rainstorms
A four-day stretch of heavy rains fell on Western North Carolina, leaving residents wondering if it would ever end. Some…
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Farewell, Mayor Phyllis Waynesville’s longtime town clerk retires
The longest-serving town clerk in Waynesville’s written history will retire next week, taking with her a vast store of institutional…
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Contenders line up to be next Haywood Sheriff
Three men, all with impressive law enforcement backgrounds, are vying to be Haywood County’s next sheriff. The current Sheriff, Bobby…
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New concert venue in the making for Maggie Valley
Carolina Nights, a closed-down dinner theater in Maggie Valley, could make a comeback as an entertainment venue under new owners.…
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Jackson commissioners hold final say on looser steep slope rules
A rewrite of Jackson County’s development regulations are well underway by the Jackson County Planning Board. It will be several…
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WCU casts wide net to reel back freshmen dropouts
With more than 15,000 applications for just 1,500 freshman spots last year, Western Carolina University has no difficulty attracting students.…
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Theories swirl around perplexing mountain lights
Ghosts, spirits, swamp gas, gnomes and car headlights — there’s no shortage of hyphotheses behind the mysterious phenomenon along the…
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What lies beneath: A night on the town with Sylva’s musical renaissance
“Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right…”– Grateful…
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Blues-rock spills into WNC
Blues guitarist Husky Burnette will be performing at 9:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at the No Name Sports Pub in…
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Calling all chocoholics to Bryson City
Cooks of all things chocolate will square off at the “Sixth Annual Chocolate Cook-Off” from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.…
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Rising country group to play Franklin
Rising country music group Eden’s Edge will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at the Smoky Mountain…
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Steep slope rules on the rocks? Jackson planning board seeks middle ground in ordinance rewrite
Jackson County’s planning board is knee-deep in a page-by-page rewrite of the county’s steep slope rules — a controversial process…
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Swain lands state grant for riverside pocket park in Bryson
Plans for a riverfront park behind the historic courthouse in Bryson City got a boost thanks to $150,000 from the…
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Tribe keeps tap flowing for Sequoyah a while longer
“If at first you don’t succeed, simply make your case again” is the lesson the executives at the tribally owned…
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PETA protests bear zoos in Cherokee on heels of undercover video
Despite being warned not to return to Cherokee without tribal permission, animal rights activists gathered once again last Saturday in…
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Cherokee brings more health care in-house with new hospital
When pediatricians at Cherokee Indian Hospital retreat to their desk between patients to log data, research puzzling symptoms or review…
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Canton’s fight to keep Camp Hope takes a new turn
Canton leaders are pondering how much time and money to invest in an abandoned summer camp and mountain property left…
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Schools weigh cost of increased safety
Officer Michael Harrison has confiscated everything from buck knives and Airsoft pistols from students at Swain High — but never…
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Veteran apartment proposed in Canton
An empty eyesore in Canton’s downtown could get a new lease on life. The former Jackson’s Appliance store, at the…
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Headwaters now BearWaters after trademark tangle
Beer had been flowing from the taps of Headwaters Brewing Company in Waynesville for just a few months when the…
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DSS says faith-based aid groups help fill in gaps
As government aid shrinks and church groups step up to fill the void, the thin and sometimes fuzzy line between…
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Looking out on a busy day in Bryson City
For some, graveyards are morbid places. When I was a boy, I never liked to pass by or walk through…
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Global warming series aims to inspire change
A six-week discussion course on climate change called “Global Warming: Changing Course” is being put on by the Western North…
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Lake Junaluska a top spot for winter birding
The Highlands Plateau chapter of the Audubon Society will go birding at Lake Junaluska on Monday, Jan. 21, to mark…
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Haywood Waterways to launch endowment fundraising campaign
The Haywood Waterways Association has named their endowment fund the “Joetta Rinehart Endowment Fund” in honor of one of the…
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Deputy superintendent retires from GSMNP
Kevin FitzGerald, deputy superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park since 2006, retired this month after 34 years with…
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Freeze your icicle off at winter bike race
Riders are invited to compete and spectators are invited to watch at the Icycle Mountain Bike Race at Fontana Village…
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Devil’s Courthouse logging proposal criticized by environmental groups
Proposed logging below Devil’s Courthouse in the Pisgah National Forest is being widely decried among outdoor recreation groups and environmental…
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Up in flames?
I sit this morning being bathed in luxurious rain. The kind of life-affirming, life-giving rain the Smokies are noted for.…
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Saving Shuckstack: Age, weather and vandalism take their toll on Smokies’ firetower
Its bolts are rusting, floor planks are rotting, and its windowpanes shattered. The roof is pocked with holes that let…
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An America divided by class
For the past 80 years more and more Americans have linked themselves economically to the machinations of the federal government.…
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WCU events to commemorate legacy of Martin Luther King
Western Carolina University will be hosting a week of events from Jan. 21 to 26 celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.
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One-man comedy show at HART in January
The comedy “21A” will be hitting the stage at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18-19 and 3 p.m. Jan. 20 in the…
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Folk duo comes to Sylva
Bryson City husband/wife singer-songwriters Liz and AJ Nance will be performing at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, and Friday, Feb.…
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All friends were strangers at one time
John Driskell Hopkins was driving in his truck when it struck him. It was a song. Radiating from his satellite…
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Loosening development regulations a bad idea
To the Editor: I am adamantly opposed to the rescinding or changing of the current steep slope and mountain-top ordinances…
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Something strange is haunting our dreams
The teenage cashier at the grocery store is conversing with a customer. “That’s right,” she says. “The only thing that…
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Are the ‘possums adapting to headlight glare
Where have all the opossums gone? People worry about cerulean warblers and frogs and honeybees and ash trees and hemlocks…
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New soil and water expert named
Waynesville native John Ottinger has been named District Conservationist for the Haywood and Madison counties Soil and Water Conservation District.
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Food cables help backpackers ward off bears
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy has provided $800 from its specialty license plate funds to help secure backpackers’ food from bears…
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