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NRA safety sessions aimed at students
The National Rifle Association will offer a seminar called “Refuse To Be A Victim” several times in coming weeks in…
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Speaker to address gun control March 5 at WCU
Gun control takes center stage at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 5, in the A.K. Hinds University Center Grandroom on the…
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Guns and greenways don’t mix in Waynesville, but state may say differently
Waynesville leaders are looking for a way to keep guns out of town parks and recreation centers despite changes in…
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Property owners push back against U.S. 441 development regs in Jackson County
A review of rules in Jackson County that guide development along the roughly five-mile stretch of U.S. 441 leading into…
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Jackson Commissioner race for Cashiers’ seat heats up
The battle of the Joneses is about to commence in Jackson County. County Commissioner Mark Jones will appear on the…
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Ghost Town looks to repair relations with inspectors
The ball is already rolling on repairs to the rides at the once-popular Ghost Town in the Sky amusement park…
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Are cops making a pest of themselves in Maggie Valley?
Complaints from business owners and customers have Maggie Valley leaders asking if its police presence in the small tourist-oriented town…
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Gear up for the Haywood Chamber’s business start-up competition
The Haywood County Chamber of Commerce will offer Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning, a four-week business course, from 6 to…
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Physical education program grant implemented
The Haywood County School District was the recipient of a Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) Grant worth up…
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Motorcycle rallies rolling into Maggie jostle over weekend rights
Maggie Valley’s town board has decided not to play favorites when it comes to the growing number of motorcycle rallies…
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Lottery money hardly a win for schools
Keeping a roof over the head of Haywood County’s nearly 8,000 students is getting harder every year as the school…
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Where do schools rank? With not enough money to go around, commissioners may have to choose between employee raises and schools
Schools got only a brief and passing mention by Haywood County commissioners during a brainstorming session last week on priorities…
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Sen. Davis breaks ethics rules by using government email for campaign
State Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, violated state ethics rules this month by using his government email address for personal, but…
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Superintendent crosses swords, again, with Freedom from Religion group
Macon County Schools Superintendent Dan Brigman once again has landed squarely in the crosshairs of a group devoted to protecting…
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Waynesville’s once-beloved O’Malley’s up for sale
RBC Bank is looking to offload the building that once housed O’Malley’s On Main Pub and Grill in Waynesville from…
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Decision on early voting site for Cherokee lands in Swain commissioners' laps
Swain County commissioners will have to decide in coming weeks whether to pony up $3,000 to $5,000 for an early…
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National award-winner and teacher to read at City Lights
Dawn Gilchrist-Young, a Jackson County resident and teacher at Swain County High School for the past 14 years, will discuss…
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Sylva local C.B. Cole introduces her new novel
C.B. Cole will be at City Lights Bookstore to read from and sign her new book, Winter, at 7 p.m.…
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Book tells the story of a young boy’s journey
Fifteen-year-old Charlie Thompson is always hungry. Luckily, he is blessed with a high metabolism rate, so the excessive amounts of…
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Explore history with a guided hike in the Smokies
Join Friends of the Smokies for a guided hike along Kephart Prong Trail, followed by a visit to the Oconaluftee…
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The bear is back
The iconic bear specialty license plate that raises dollars for Friends of the Smokies is being sold again, with an…
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Smokies volunteers needed at Oconaluftee and Clingmans Dome
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting for a variety of volunteer opportunities at Oconaluftee and Clingmans Dome for…
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Monitoring to root out erosion sources in Haywood
A $500 grant was awarded to Haywood Waterways Association by the Haywood County Community Foundation to expand Haywood Waterways’ sediment…
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Program to discuss mercury fall-out
A program on mercury pollution in mountain waters will be held by the Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River at…
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Mountain fly-fishing team lands line-up of top notch coaches
The N.C. Fly Fishing Team, who count the region’s best fishermen among their ranks, has now hooked one of the…
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HCC Wildlife Club to host wild game dinner
The sixth-annual Wild Game Dinner is set for 6 p.m. on Friday, March 2, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. …
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Environmental group wants to duke it out with energy company
Greenpeace activists, in what promises to be a long, high-profile campaign against Duke Energy for perceived environmental wrongs, launched the…
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Greenhouse space available in Waynesville
If you are short on greenhouse space but want to grow your own plants, consider using the Old Armory Recreation…
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Counting at Kituwah
This year was the 15th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, a citizen-science project created by Cornell Lab of Ornithology and…
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Battle of the Plug: WCU raises the stakes on a national energy conservation competition
Things have gotten slightly darker at Western Carolina University. The Cullowhee-based college is battling Boone’s Appalachian State University in the…
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Pileated woodpeckers a mainstay in the mountains
The tapping of pileateds ... means attachment to a nest site and attachment of the members of a pair to…
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The secret life of Quintin Ellison
In a time-wasting exercise, I was giving thought recently about my earliest memory, which is of getting my knee stuck…
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Taxpayers deserve easier access to voting
To the Editor: My name is John Herrin and I am a registered voter in Swain County, and I wrote…
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Swain needs to keep one-stop voting site
To the Editor: Ms. Sallie Smith Bradley will celebrate her 98th birthday on Saturday, March 3, at her residence in…
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My go-to source for a shot of inspiration
Do you have a muse? At different times in my life that role has been filled by different entities. As…
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Jackson poised to give economic commission another shot
Jackson County has been down this road before, but that isn’t stopping leaders from taking another look at forming a…
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Sylva radio station waiting for final pieces to fall into place
It will be several more weeks at best before Sylva AM radio station WRGC gets back on the air, pending…
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County election roundup
Here’s who has filed lately for the upcoming local election. Filing continues through Feb. 29. Haywood County: Another Republican has…
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Tourism forum to focus on regional partnerships
Hoteliers, innkeepers, outfitters and other tourism-related businesses can attend the Tourism Partnership Forum, a free event that will be held…
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TDA looks to tax collector to crack down on delinquent tourism taxpayers
Delinquent payers of the tourism room tax in Haywood County will soon have the tax collector knocking on their door.…
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Applications available for scholarships
Haywood County Farm Bureau awards four scholarships each year — two for $1,000 and two for $500. The $1000 scholarships…
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Youth SURGE into Missions this summer
Ministries with Young People at Lake Junaluska is preparing for its summer programming, SURGE into Missions. During the SURGE into…
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Skate park dream revived with pledge from town
Waynesville leaders have committed to foot the bill for the long-held dream of a skateboard park — and it will…
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Macon County turns out to debate planning board’s future
Macon County’s planning board lived to plan another day. Proposed retroactive term limits, which some considered punitive because they seemed…
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Another Macon subdivision, more unhappy lot owners
Not long ago Kristina and Bruce Oliver invited a local couple they’d met in nearby Franklin to come play cards…
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DSS building sits empty after senior housing project falters
Hopes of turning the abandoned Haywood County social services building into low-income senior apartments have been dashed, leaving the county…
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Canton town board hopes to move away from perpetual election cycle
Canton’s elected leaders could find their two-year terms of office doubling if voters support a proposed change to give the…
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Findings paint dire picture of REACH’s finances
An audit of REACH of Jackson County’s finances received by the nonprofit’s board last month show the money situation had…
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County holds up approval of MedWest collateral
A $10 million line of County credit intended to bridge short-term cash flow problems at MedWest-Haywood hospital has hit a…
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Peer-to-peer recovery education program
A 10-week free educational class will be held next month in Franklin on recovery and wellness for anyone experiencing a…
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