Sylva discusses downtown parking woes
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
Parking along Sylva’s downtown Main Street is a challenge.
Mayor wants windfall from watershed invested
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
The Town of Sylva has begun surveying the Fisher Creek watershed in anticipation of receiving a $3.5 million conservation easement to be awarded by the Clean Water Management Trust Fund.
Sylva librarian resigns as of Jan. 31
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
Jackson County Librarian Michael Cartwright will be resigning from his post by the end of the year, prompting the Fontana Regional Library System to begin a search for his replacement.
Many Sylva building owners support downtown tax
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
Most business and property owners have reacted positively to a Downtown Sylva Association proposal to create a municipal service district that would tax the downtown area to pay for improvements, say DSA officials.
An open letter to Sylva
Most of us in the course of a week find a reason to go to downtown Sylva. We may go out to eat, or to the library, post office or bank, or perhaps just shop. There’s plenty of pleasure — and necessity — to be found downtown for residents of the area. As a real, working, genuine town, Sylva functions very well.
Bridge project brings community together
The Bridge Park Project is a community effort to create a covered performance pavilion, market space, public gardens, and improved parking at the municipal parking lot in downtown Sylva, between Mill Street and Scotts Creek.
Sylva set to extend planning jurisdiction to Allen’s Branch
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
Town aldermen are moving ahead with plans to vote the Allen’s Branch community into Sylva’s planning jurisdiction.
Grant allows Sylva to conserve Fisher Creek
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
The Town of Sylva has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund to purchase a conservation easement to protect its 1,088-acre Fisher Creek watershed.
Sylva set to expand planning district
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
Sylva Town Board members are expected to move forward with plans to make the Allen’s Branch community part of the town’s extra territorial jurisdiction Thursday, Aug. 17. However, several local residents are pushing for the boundary’s lines to be redrawn.
Sylva mulls over creating ETJ
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
Residents from Jackson County’s Allen’s Branch community said they didn’t know exactly what Sylva town officials were talking about during an informational session regarding plans to bring the area under the town’s extra territorial jurisdiction held Monday night — but they didn’t like it.
