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Access management
Access management deploys numerous design techniques to reduce congestion on clogged roads, five-lane drags being the primary candidate.
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Deteriorating perception of HRMC a focus of interviews
The rift between Haywood Regional Medical Center administration and the medical community needs to be repaired, and public confidence in…
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Law provides few protections for Indian mounds
When it comes right down to it, the good will of private landowners is often what stands between saving Indian…
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Nurses need more support, applicants say
One of the top issues that emerged during county commissioner interviews of hospital board applicants last week was the need…
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Shuler touts Heritage Area funding
Representative Heath Shuler announced Monday that the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area has been allocated a federal appropriation of $748,955…
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Leaders, citizens demand input as road plan progresses
After a two-year lull, debate over a controversial expressway through Jackson County known as the Southern Loop could soon re-emerge.
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Tribe helps preserve Cowee Mound in Macon
As a child growing up in Oklahoma, Tom Belt often heard that there were reasons a group of Cherokee had…
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Bartram’s early accounts of Cowee
The preservation of the Cowee mound and village site alongside the Little Tennessee River in Macon County is truly significant…
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Media blew it at Virginia Tech
The same popular culture that some have alleged to produce yet another mass murderer wasted no time in trying to…
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Haywood nurses frustrated by changes
Editor’s note: A group of nurses who work at the Haywood Regional Medical Center Emergency Room recently contacted The Smoky…
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No time for sentimentality
By Dawn Gilchrist Young “ ... and all day I turn over my own best thoughts, each one as…
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Two Poems by Zora Walker
The Man in the Pickup Truck You may be a man who drives a cadillac and lives in a big…
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West Waynesville roadwork needs to be designed well
Imagine how this scenario could work, if it was a reality: a state Department of Transportation in lockstep with the…
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Man of Stihl: HCC student to compete at national collegiate timber sports championship in July
By Michael Beadle Jay Blackburn never figured he’d be competing against the best axe-chopping, saw-cutting athletes in the country when…
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Navy’s top 10 reasons for choosing Site C
The Navy has decided that a site in Washington and Beaufort counties in eastern North Carolina, about three to five…
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Putting the “mock” in Democracy: Capitol Steps troupe brings political laughs to WCU
By Michael Beadle Along with death and taxes, one of the most predictable things in life seems to be political…
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Laying down the Lawson
By Chris Cooper Fusing soaring gospel harmony with finely tuned bluegrass firepower, Doyle Lawson has forged an easily recognizable and…
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Let’s dance: Boy Scout group honors Cherokee traditions
Bill Dyar has long been interested in Native American dances. When he was 15 years old, he formed his first…
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Grant-Lee Phillips scores two in a year
By Chris Cooper First, if you don’t already know (I sure as heck didn’t) fire up Google and read about…
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Recommended diversions
“The Sopranos” Down now to the last five episodes before creator David Chase closes down the series for good, the…
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Southern Comfort
Cornbread Nation 2 by Lolis Eric Elie. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. In the last 50 years, home…
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Nantahala developer, paddlers at odds – again
Updated 1/22/20: The lawsuits between Mystic Lands landowners and developer Ami Shinitzky have since been resolved. Progess had been made…
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Affordable housing on the plateau
Each weekend, Carol Austin figures out what meals her family is going to eat during the upcoming workweek. She shops…
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Jackson citizens asked to ‘imagine ... a library’
A coffee shop. That’s one of the more unique but interesting ideas that emerged during a series of public input…
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New ER director says transition going well
The board of the Haywood Regional Medical Center heard a glowing report last week on how the hospital’s emergency department…
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State considers controls on steep slope construction
Local governments balking at controlling development on steep mountainsides would be forced into action if the General Assembly passes a…
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Downtown Sylva gets free wireless access
When Rhonda Williams fired up her laptop in the Sylva library a couple of weeks ago, she was pleasantly surprised…
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TDA quiets some critics with festival funding hike
The Haywood County Tourism Development Authority gave out twice as much money in grants for festivals this year, quelling some…
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Spring wonders: Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont makes nature hands-on
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Cameron Farlow, an intern at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s Oconaluftee Visitors Center,…
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New WCU business dean has academic, business experience
Ronald A. Johnson, who holds the JP Morgan Chase Chair in Finance in the Jesse H. Jones School of Business…
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Persecution of the dandelion
It seems that every lawn care commercial on TV or radio these days is aimed at touting a product which…
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Fluffy turns out to be a greaser
By Stephanie Wampler My fluffy white dog was no longer white — his snout was grey with grease, the hair…
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Re-thinking transportation is a must
Dark clouds were rolling in on Saturday as I sat in our Sylva office while Western North Carolina’s original environmental…
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Bog bet succeeds
When Gary Wein came on board as the executive director of the Highlands Cashiers Land Trust a year ago, he…
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Unique bog protected
Botanists are cheering the recent acquisition of a 38-acre tract that’s home to a mountain bog near Cashiers thanks to…
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They’re baaaaccckkk!
In late March there was a lot of talk on the Carolina birders’ listserv about early migration as Neotropical migrants…
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Artisans Bread Bakers Festival is community at its best
By Kathleen Lamont It was Saturday, March 24, and I was walking through the Greenlife Grocery parking lot in Asheville…
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Wilderness Society comes to WNC: National environmental organization opens office in Franklin
The Wilderness Society has signaled a strong interest in the future of the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests with the…
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Road standards would help rescue vehicles
When a roaring forest fire whipped through a mountainside development in Swain County two months ago — burning nine homes…
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Studio 33 wins $10,000 start-up award from Haywood Chamber
Custom jewelry business Studio 33 and its owner Diannah Beauregard won the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce Business Start-up Competition…
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Swain leaders tout river access, horse ring upgrades
Not that many years ago, anglers and boaters wanting to gain access to the Tuckasegee River in Swain County essentially…
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Bush’s obstinance is a rare opportunity
With President Bush’s veto of the Democrats’ bill to set a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq,…
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A distant memory of child’s play
By Kathryn Stripling Byer Soon school will be over for the year. Students will leave their classrooms and bound out…
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Nurses deserve support for speaking up
By Michael Rey I would like to offer some words of support for those Emergency Department Nurses at Haywood Regional…
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Letter to Haywood Regional Medical Center
Dr. Michael Ray, who worked for Haywood Emergency Physicians before quitting in summer 2006, wrote this letter to the Haywood…
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The right choices for healthier air
Roughly 45 percent of people (more than 2.9 million) in North Carolina lives in an area with unhealthful short-term levels…
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A peek at the watershed
One hundred and twenty people or so took advantage of Waynesville’s first Watershed Appreciation Month to see and learn more…
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Take a Hike: New hiking book offers tips, maps and history on local mountain trails
Danny Bernstein still remembers her first tough hike — a three-day journey in 1969 up Mount Marcy, the highest peak…
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A serendipitious selection of CDs
By Chris Cooper Ah ... the joys of moving. Once you’ve got everything boxed up and ready to go, there’s…
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