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Work of hired consultant causes confusion among lodging community
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Late last month Macon County consultant Gary Nicholson sent out 351 letters to local…
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Careful of the jimson weed
“Jimson Weed is featured in a set of mystic books recently popular, Carlos Castaneda’s tales of mind expansion with the…
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Media freedom could easily slip away
When Federal Communications Commission officials came to Asheville last week to discuss media ownership regulations, they got an earful from…
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N.C. counties have gotten more democratic
By Lee Shelton After the primary election results were in, I offered a commentary on county government and the implications…
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EPA sued for failing to protect citizens from other states’ pollution
The North Carolina Sierra Club and Southern Environmental Law Center have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for…
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Avian nomads
I have just finished by bird point survey for the Forest Service, which takes me to Mt. Mitchell and Roan…
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The race is on
By Michael Beadle You’ll have to excuse Greg Duff if he greets you out of breath. If he’s not in…
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Velvet Leaf Blueberry marks 5,000 species new to Smokies
The All Taxa Biological Inventory hit the 5,000 species milestone this summer in an ongoing effort to document every species…
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A Walk In The Wild: Encounters of the wildlife kind
By Ed Kelley If you spend much time in the outdoors, you will eventually have an encounter with wildlife. I…
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Someone who understands me
In every town I’ve ever lived in — and I have lived in several — I have made a Sports…
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Indian hemp for the long haul
For me, those plants found here in the Smokies region that have verified practical human uses are, in the long…
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Sylva town board cuts DSA funding
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Sylva town board members’ minds are unchanged about cutting the Downtown Sylva Association’s funding…
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Probe into unusual school spending account dropped
A former Haywood County school employee and Haywood Builder’s Supply have been cleared of wrongdoing in connection with an off-the-books…
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NC GreenPower is inexpensive way to take a small step
When Louis and Talitha Mes put up a 100-foot windmill two weeks ago in the Crabtree community of Haywood County…
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Park expands Junior Ranger program
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is inviting kids and their families to participate in a selection of summer programs…
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Chaos is upon us!
Remember the chaos theory — how the flapping of a single butterfly’s wings could produce unknown and unpredictable atmospheric change?…
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Rebel Records roundup
Rebel records, the venerable bluegrass-only imprint that’s as much a home to royalty like Ralph Stanley as it is young…
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Art partnership: Swain County couple Dee Dee and Robert Triplett share a love for creating and sharing one-of-a-kind art pieces
By Michael Beadle Dee Dee Triplett is a woman of the cloth. Her husband, Robert, is a man of strong…
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Recommended diversions
Instant Sociology Ever had one of those days where nobody, I mean nobody, made much sense? Baffling behaviors everywhere? Here’s…
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An open eye
Let’s imagine for a moment that it is Election Day in some unspecified city, and the proper government officials have…
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Duke says project does not extend to tribal land
Duke Power discounted accusations last week that a portion of the hydropower operation on the Oconaluftee River extends onto tribal…
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Franklin residents to help design new neighborhood
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Macon County residents have the opportunity to help design the first New Urbanist traditional…
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Locals plead Duke case to congressmen
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hones its final recommendations for the mitigation Duke…
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Mountain Metal Fest raises a joyous noise
By Chris Cooper Hold one of your hands up, left or right, whichever you prefer. With your palm facing outward,…
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Recommended diversions
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Bruce Springsteen When my brother-in-law sent me this CD, I couldn’t wait to get…
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Chick check
The word “ubiquitous” is an apt adjective for Chick comics. They show up in motel rooms, garages, pool halls, laundromats,…
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Dayco developers want rules relaxed
Developers of a strip shopping complex at the site of the old Dayco factory in Waynesville are asking for several…
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Franklin’s new urban neighborhood plan complete
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Preliminary master plans and architectural designs for Franklin’s new mixed-use, smart growth style development…
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Growth worries prompt Swain to create planning board
Swain County commissioners informally agreed to consider mountainside development regulations at a meeting last Tuesday (July 11) during what amounted…
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Research probes tourists’ interests, spending patterns
Men between the ages of 45 and 65 who visit the 25-county Blue Ridge National Heritage Area are most interested…
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Trash statistics skewed by second-home residents
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Macon County’s trash is a growing problem, says Chris Stahl, director of the Macon…
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Statement from the Concerned Citizens for Responsible Development made at the Swain County commissioners meetings on Tuesday, July 11
The concern of our group is that Swain County appears to have no control of development to inside and outside…
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Catching the Folkmoot Bug: 2006 host band, performers dissolve cultural barriers with song
Ted White, a bass player with Whitewater Bluegrass Company, was warming up backstage at a Folkmoot performance last year when…
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A Celtic slice of France
One of this year’s Folkmoot groups, Bleuniadur, hails from northern France in the region known as Brittany. SMN’s Michael Beadle…
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Gala Preview has a new home
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Folkmoot USA’s Gala Preview will celebrate its first year in its new home at…
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The groups of Folkmoot 2006
Canada – Zephyr Zephyr, a French Canadian dance company from Edmonton, Alberta, in Western Canada was founded in 2002 through…
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The mountains tumultuous past
To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of…
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Oh, the irony of it all
“Sausage is good!?” My 7-year-old son was looking out the window of the van when he blurted the words out…
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Congressmen should weigh in on relicensing
When a room full of elected officials pleaded with a U.S. senator and a congressman last week to step into…
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Groups take stand against logging
The Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project and WNC Alliance are opposing a logging proposal in the vicinity of Looking Glass Rock,…
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Meet the stars
About a million years ago, through a wormhole, while I was still in college and Grumman aluminum was state of…
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Water, water... everywhere?
A rafting and tubing outfitter on the upper Tuckasegee River in Jackson County claims he is being slighted in a…
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Giving art to a community: Elementary, college students collaborate to create a mural for the Webster Family Resource Center
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer A warm mid-morning sun beats down on the back parking lot of the Family…
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Canvas stretchers
Yes, this is another of those pesky “music you may want to check out” articles. The “canvas stretcher” opening refers…
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Hope in a rude world
In the last 40 years, the living waters of American law and politics have flattened into a bog of faction…
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Land-use plan on the rocks: Big box stores angle for immunity
Developers of a proposed big box complex in Waynesville are seeking several exemptions from the town’s land-use plan. Waynesville has…
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How to get a ‘better-than-average’ Wal-Mart
Cedarwood Development is no stranger to big box developments like the one the company is proposing in Waynesville. The company…
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