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Heritage, naturally
By Joann B. Poindexter • Special to The Smoky Mountain News The Franklin Folk Festival will celebrate the region’s cultural…
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From the chaos come ‘uktena’
The natural history of a region consists of the plants, animals, and landscapes we can see and explore any given…
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Duke starts dredging above Dillsboro Dam
Duke Energy has begun work preparing a site along the Tuckasegee River upstream of the Dillsboro Dam in order to…
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Ghost Town coaster an open-and-shut case
The much-anticipated roller coaster at Ghost Town opened amid fanfare last week, then was promptly shut down again. The coaster…
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‘Rainbow people’ — fewer this time — grace area forest
A much smaller contingent of Rainbow Family members than North Carolina’s Nantahala National Forest has sometimes experienced descended on Buck…
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Cherokee could do better regulating bear zoos
“Cherokee has so much to offer, such as its beautiful mountains, museums, cultural and historical exhibits, Native American shops, friendly…
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Popcorn Sutton film wins regional Emmy
The Last One, a locally produced documentary film featuring moonshiner Popcorn Sutton, received an Emmy at the 35th Emmy Awards…
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Fish weir Q&A
What is a fish weir? Fish weirs are long, low rock walls built in the riverbed, extending from opposite shores…
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Family, social worker had to push to get embezzlement, elder exploitation case moving
By May 2008, members of Earla Mae Cowan’s family had begun to suspect a trusted nephew was stealing from her.…
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Expedition maps prehistoric Cherokee fishing weirs
Lamar Marshall had been canoeing the Little Tennessee for years before he knew what a fish weir was. In retrospect,…
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Take a chance on Ravens
When a friend sent me an advanced reading copy of Ravens with a note that said, “There is no one…
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441 corridor plan poised for passage
The Jackson County Board of Commissioners held a final public hearing on the proposed U.S. 441 “Gateway” Corridor ordinance Monday…
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Fish stew: better than it sounds
While today’s fishermen are partial to the big fillets like brook trout and small-mouth bass, Cherokee used even the tiniest…
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Long-time Sylva mayor won’t run again
Sylva’s mayor for the past 17 years, Brenda Oliver, has announced that she will not run for re-election this fall.Oliver,…
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New map leads the way to Haywood farms
Local residents and tourists have a new resource to help them support the farms and farmers of Haywood County. A…
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Canton election hangs on vision for town
How Canton residents envision the future of their town could play a pivotal role in who gets elected this fall.…
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Sanford affair is either high school drama or Greek tragedy
There is only so much you can do to help a child recover from a broken heart, especially the first…
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New bike shop opens in Bryson
Andy Zivinsky and Diane Cutler were determined to move to the mountains. Their passion for all things outdoors was making…
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Vice mayor aspirant to challenge incumbent for mayor
Two-term Franklin Alderman Bob Scott has wanted a turn as vice mayor going back a while — an honor that…
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PETA targets bear zoos in national campaign
Recently, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians found itself the whipping boy of an unlikely opponent. Much to the tribe’s…
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Stimulus funds boost WNC mass transit
Mass transit is set to get a boost in Western North Carolina thanks to some economic stimulus money targeted for…
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Jackson eyes options for current library site
In the game of musical chairs stemming from the library moving out of its current digs on Sylva’s Main Street,…
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Cold Mountain Heritage Tour attracts many to the rich stories woven into Haywood County’s history
By Michael Beadle On a quiet perch atop Bethel Cemetery, two unmarked graves are all that’s left of a pair…
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Cherokee needs new superintendent after personnel upheaval
The Cherokee School Board is on the verge of appointing a new superintendent following the termination of Rosemary Townsend after…
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How Bob Barker took on the Eastern Band
Bob Barker?! The involvement of famed television host Bob Barker in the fight to end the Cherokee bear exhibits took…
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A nose for finding rare plants
I enjoy leading natural history workshops, but I no longer derive much pleasure from herding people along a trail while…
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Rainforest style eco-adventure comes to the Nantahala Gorge
The Nantahala Gorge Canopy Tour will debut this month with a half-mile series of forest-enveloped ziplines, where people hang from…
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Jackson farm and garden tour has it all
Farmers and gardeners in Jackson County are inviting the public to traipse through their garden rows during the third annual…
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The Naturalist's Corner
New neighbors I have always had a good number of neotropical migrants nest every season in the woods around my…
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Hearing set for Little Tennessee discharge permit
A public hearing over a sewer discharge permit into the Little Tennessee River will be held on Tuesday, July 7,…
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Freaks and morality
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch. Little, Brown and Company, 2009. 464 pages. “Whenever I am asked…
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Will Sylva vote expose usual fault line?
The race for the Sylva town board this fall could once again gauge the extent of shifting demographics of the…
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Who’s running and who’s not?
Canton Mayor Pat Smathers could face opposition this fall from his leading opponent on the town board, Alderman Eric Dills.…
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Tourism office takes tech strides
In her nearly six-month tenure as executive director, Lynn Collins has been helping Haywood County’s Tourism Development Authority make strides…
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Tindall-Taylor leaving HRMC
The director of Haywood Regional Medical Center’s Foundation and Corporate Communications Department for the past 20 years, Robin Tindall-Taylor, has…
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Public Art Commission paver design coming to fruition at new police station
The plaza at the entrance to the new Waynesville Police Station is nearing completion. Workers are placing the final touches…
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Recipes, 6/24/10
Rainbow trout with lemon caper sauce: Grill filleted trout over medium-hot coals. Baste with butter and fresh herbs (parsley, chives,…
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Mountains of mushrooms
Is this going to be a bumper year for wild mushrooms? Maybe so, if the rainfall we have been experiencing…
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Ode to the Sylva Coffee Shop
Most small southern towns have a place like The Coffee Shop in Sylva — a cafe that has become a…
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Franklin followed the law by leaking Duke’s counteroffer
The town of Franklin acted appropriately by making public the terms of an out-of-court settlement offer extended to the town…
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Downtown merchants anticipate homecoming for county workforce
Downtown merchants in Waynesville hope to get a boost in customers when the Haywood County Historic Courthouse throws open its…
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The Naturalist's Corner
WNS impacts western Carolina caving The USDA Forest Service issued an order on May 21 closing all caves and abandoned…
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Lawmakers veer way off path
By Bob Scott • Guest Columnist North Carolina Legislators have declared war on tube roses. Tube roses are little roses…
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Great Smokies become instant recipe for tourists
The mountains of Western North Carolina were no stranger to tourism prior to the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains…
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Humanizing literature
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Dial Press. 277 pages For…
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No we aren’t becoming socialists
Don’t you just love how words and labels take on a life of their own in the ideological debate that…
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Waynesville seeks input on pedestrian plan
A master plan for making Waynesville even more pedestrian friendly has been unveiled after a year in the making. The…
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Historic courthouse welcomes back county offices
After two-and-a-half years of operating in temporary quarters, the big move is here. Stacks of boxes are piled high in…
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Casino to buy liquor in bulk, but from whom?
Cherokee isn’t the only one that potentially stands to make money off the sale of alcohol to patrons at Harrah’s…
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In search of hidden lookout towers
The line-up of hikes in the Lookout Tower Challenge spans Western North Carolina. Seven are located in the Nantahala National…
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