Cherokee’s top coffee spot taken over after loan, lease default
Regular coffee connoisseurs in Cherokee may have noticed a slight change in their popular downtown coffeehouse. The Sequoyah Fund, an…
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Breaking bread: Macon County commissioners aren’t going hungry at meetings
When it comes to staying well fed, the Macon County commissioners are leading the pack. From finger food and pizzas…
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Haywood extends financial olive branch to towns for trash hauling
Haywood County will help ease the burden faced by towns as they start trucking their trash all the way to…
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MedWest discontinuing in-home personal care
MedWest-Haywood will discontinue in-home aide services in Haywood County, laying off 17 nursing assistants that visit housebound patients and aid…
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Healthy eating program offered at Sylva library
Food coach Manon Fancher of Sylva will be at the Jackson County Public Library at 7 p.m. on May 31…
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Celebrate EMS Week with open house
MedWest-Harris Emergency Medical Services will host an open house from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on May 23 to celebrate…
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Bike ride to benefit Open Door Ministries
The third annual Open Door Benefit Bike Run will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 9. The fund-raiser, hosted by…
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BizWorks to close two regional offices
The Mountain BizWorks office in Sylva, which serves would-be entrepreneurs and other small business owners in the state’s seven westernmost…
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Veterans urged to register for Memorial Day parade
Time is running out for Haywood County veterans to register to participate in the Memorial Day Parade. The Memorial Day…
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Free sports physicals for Haywood youth
Student athletes can get free sports physicals Tuesday, May 29 at the MedWest Health & Fitness Center on the campus…
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Recalling Fontana: Appalachia sacrifices to generate power for the war effort
A celebration honoring the sacrifice of those who made the WWII construction of Fontana Dam possible will be held as…
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Move to Amend activists on the stump locally, but Jackson commissioners are not buying
Jackson County commissioners butted heads with local activists at a meeting this week, refusing to lend their philosophical support to…
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Jackson not eager to pony up new deputies in wake of alcohol vote
A request by Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe for eight additional deputies now that the sale of alcoholic beverages has…
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Recount results in: Queen wins House race by a hair
Two weeks after the primary election, an official winner has finally been declared following a recount in an insanely tight…
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Creative arts building back for more contingency funds
A feeling of déjà vu swept over the Haywood County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday as they reviewed more than…
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Model HCC childcare center to get model playground
It might be a day late, but it’s certainly not a dollar short. A $235,000 playground is coming to the…
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Business community lends a hand with start-up grants
Two businesses — Copper Pot and Wooden Spoon, and Belle on Main Salon and Spa — came out winners during the…
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Maggie Valley wants to know: what should its future hold?
Business owners needs to put aside their bickering and resentments for the good of Maggie Valley, Mayor Ron DeSimone emphasized…
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The calling card of tourism pays off in the mountains
In addition to the obvious benefits of tourism — jobs and revenue for the county — tourism dollars save Haywood County…
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Fate of live dealers hinges on state House
The quest to bring live table games to Harrah’s Cherokee Casino faces a final political hurdle. Both the Governor and…
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Annexation and fracking and voter ID, oh my! A look at the General Assembly’s short session
While arguments over the state budget are likely to dominate everything in Raleigh as the General Assembly convenes for the…
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Fun in Sun Summer Camp in Waynesville
The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer the “Fun in the Sun Summer Camp” for kids ages 5 to…
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Shortchanged again? Swain’s cash settlement flounders in Washington budget bureaucracy
The National Park Service is refusing to let go of a $4 million payment Swain County is due as part…
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‘Wild West’ chamber drive saddles up
The Haywood County Chamber of Commerce has launched its 2012 membership campaign, which will run through June 14. The campaign…
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Hospice house now open in Haywood
MedWest Health System opened its new $3.4 million inpatient hospice unit in Haywood County, The Homestead, with an open house…
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BizWorks offers merchandising course
Mountain BizWorks will host Merchandising WOW, a new merchandising course, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for three consecutive Wednesdays…
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SCC Employment lab to coach job seekers
Southwestern Community College is offering a free Employability Lab designed to help unemployed people obtain jobs. It will be held…
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Flourish expo embraces women’s well-being
A wide variety of healthcare speakers are headlining the second annual Flourish Women’s Expo put on by MedWest Health System…
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Start-up business grant winners to be announced this week
The Haywood County Chamber of Commerce will host their annual Business Start-Up Competition Luncheon to honor this year’s recipients of…
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WCU to expand DNA sequencing capabilities
Western Carolina University’s Forensic Science Program has acquired two state-of-the-art pieces of DNA sequencing instruments to help it establish a…
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GroWNC inspires neighboring counties to think like a region
Haywood is banding together with Transylvania, Buncombe, Henderson and Madison counties under a project titled GroWNC, designed to get the…
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Cherokee crafts plans for tree-top canopy walk and family adventure park
The next five years could include the construction of an adventure park, a canopy walk and another casino for the…
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Voices of the Smokies to go live in oral project
Recordings made some seven decades ago of nearly 60 men and women who lived in what became the Great Smoky…
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Low-income housing complex proposed in Franklin
A 60-unit affordable housing complex has been proposed in Franklin, but will depend on securing competitive state tax credits for…
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Franklin balks at apology for killing mound grass
Franklin leaders declined last week to offer a formal apology to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for using weed…
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Queen still the winner after canvas in tight House race
A recount is likely in the race for N.C. House of Representatives between two well-known and prominent Waynesville Democrats, Danny…
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Republicans must face off in second primary
When none of the Republican candidates for Congress garnered 40 percent of the votes during the May 8 primary, the…
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Going once, going twice … office building anyone?
Haywood County is looking to off-load a few of its now vacant office buildings and is searching for help to…
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Some in Cullowhee look to zoning in wake of alcohol vote
The advent of alcohol in Cullowhee is fueling efforts to implement some kind of land-use plan to guide growth in…
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WCU selects Angela Brenton for provost position
Angela Laird Brenton, dean of the College of Professional Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been…
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Learn about end-of-life decision-making
A free community forum on planning and decision-making for end-of-life events is set for 2 p.m. Sunday, May 20, in…
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Swain uses money from first North Shore Road payment on special projects
While Swain County fights to secure the rest of the $52 million cash settlement its owed by the federal government…
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Annie’s Bakery gets new life, new owners thanks to ‘locavesting’
When Annie’s Naturally Bakery closed down last November, among those mourning the loss of the beloved coffee, bakery and gathering…
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Appalachian born and bred: Downtown Waynesville, Haywood Tourism both launch locally made campaigns
The Jackson County farmers market had three or four vendors who regularly showed up each week to sell their homegrown…
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WNC cops frustrated by lack of drug, alcohol testing at regional crime lab
Waynesville Police Department is one of several law enforcement agencies hoping to see an expansion of the Western North Carolina…
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All aboard! New trolleys to circuit shopping districts of Waynesville
The same trolley that used to lead the New York Marathon and transport students at New York University from place…
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Get help building your home
Haywood Habitat for Humanity is holding an open enrollment through this month for people interested in purchasing a home through…
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Good Old Time Summer Camp for kids at WCU
Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center, Department of Art and Hunter Library are joining forces to offer the Good Old…
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BBQ sack lunches to benefit skate park project
There will be a barbecue fund-raiser for the Waynesville Skate Park from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June…
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Fun Kids Day to benefit PAWS
P.A.W.S. Animal Shelter will celebrate children and animals of all ages with a day of fun and games at the…
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