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“Go Native” in your backyard
“From Mowing to Growing,” a workshop with Sara Martin, a biology instructor at Haywood Community College with a B.A. in…
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Catch a runner’s view of Sylva’s Main
The Main Street Mile, a series of 1-mile races highlighting the state’s Main Street Program, will hit the streets of…
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Picnic with WATR
The Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River will hold its fifth-annual summer picnic at 6 p.m. Friday, June 10, on…
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Summer Daze
Soccer balls litter the yard, my wife is auditioning for NASCAR on the lawn mower and I am following the…
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Black bear festival coming up in Highlands
A Mountain Black Bear Festival is set for June 10 and 11 at the Highlands Civic/Recreation Center, featuring exhibits, artisans…
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Outsider Art: Franklin’s Bill Lea is a nationally recognized nature photographer
It started out simply enough. Fresh out of college on his new job in Vicksburg, Miss., on the banks of…
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Author explores hidden local history
Author Alice Sink will read from her new book, Hidden History of the Western North Carolina Mountains, at 1 p.m.…
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Crowe and Dawson release children’s book
Jackson County writer Thomas Crowe and illustrator Marilyn K. Dawson will celebrate the publication of their children’s book, The Wake…
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Liar's Bench moves to WCU venue
The Liar’s Bench has been adopted by the Mountain Heritage Center The one-year anniversary of The Liar’s Bench will be…
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The story of a modern-day oracle
Occasionally, books are published in the U. S. that can best be described as “oddities” which acquire a kind of…
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Protect wilderness before legislation makes it too late
When Congress passed the Wilderness Act back in 1964, it immediately became one of the most important pieces of conservation…
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Radical Senate budget crippling NC’s future
To the Editor: The fact that Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, refers to the radical budget being proposed down in Raleigh…
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Profit motive should not be driving education
To the Editor: It appears that the radical Republicans in control of the N.C. legislature are starving funding for public…
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Education cuts will harm student, schools
To the Editor: Republicans are cutting off education from beginning to end in North Carolina. The new cuts will take…
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Junaluska garden is indeed a gem
To the Editor: This letter is further comment on Quintin Ellison’s column about the Corneille Bryan Native Garden at Lake…
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Just where are all the promised jobs?
To the Editor: Republican Sens. Ralph Hise, R-Spruce Pine, and Jim Davis, R-Franklin, promised “jobs, jobs, jobs” and “better times”…
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Commissioner right to question SCC road
To the Editor: Jackson County Commissioner Jack Debnam’s recent comments on the proposed SCC spur road are valid and show…
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Life lessons learned in the barnyard
Goats view a gate left open as a passageway to excitement. And it is exciting, too, for the goat keeper,…
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Six pints of Guinness and a glass of milk
What do Barack Obama and my son have in common? They both visited Ireland in May. Obama, though, was proud…
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News in brief
The Haywood County Chamber of Commerce annual dinner and year in review is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on June 2.…
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Cherokee chief candidates debate tribe’s dependency on Harrah’s
Diversify is the buzzword in Cherokee, where candidates in the upcoming primary are facing off over how to move away…
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Swain citizens might get seat at the table as North Shore money trickles in
After a decades-long battle to get it, the first interest payments on Swain County’s North Shore Road settlement are finally…
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Maggie festival grounds still trying to prove its mettle
When the town of Maggie Valley bought a grassy field to serve as a town festival grounds in 2005, the…
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Doctor: Authorities did not do enough
About two years ago, a sting was set to take place at a party in the Hickory Knoll area outside…
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Living at the top has some down sides
Living in Cashiers has certain perks: There is a beautiful lake to play on, gorgeous homes to live in and…
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Cashiers, Glenville show their pull in the polls
The three new Jackson commissioners — Jack Debnam, Charles Elders and Doug Cody — owe their victory last fall in…
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Cashiers recreation center might finally become reality
Jackson County commissioners say it’s high time Cashiers gets its due: an $8 million recreation center as pay back for…
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Will WCU ever see Kimmel pledge fulfilled?
Six years ago, amid great fanfare, Joe Kimmel pledged $6.9-million dollars to Western Carolina University. Based on that pledge, with…
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Haywood Schools’ leaders claim call for education reform misdirected
Above national average. Above state average. Highest regional composite ranking. These are a few of the phrases that stand out…
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Vinegar pie? Southern Living lauds Jarrett House’s ‘delectable’ fare
A local Dillsboro inn had four recipes featured in the Southern Living cookbook, Off the Eaten Path: Favorite Southern Dives…
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Celebrate Appalachian History in Waynesville
An Appalachian Lifestyle Celebration will come to downtown Waynesville from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June, 11. The…
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Bach Choral brings Irish music to the mountains
The Bach Chorale Children’s Choir of Lafayette, Ind., will perform a program called “Ireland Ascending” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,…
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Summer music series begins with Dusk and Sky
A summer music series will kick off at 7 p.m. on June 9 with musician Dusk Weaver at the Marianna…
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Disney classic comes to life on stage
Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is coming to Haywood Community College at 7 p.m. on June 10, and 2:30 p.m.…
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Broadway thriller comes to Haywood
“Deathtrap,” a murder-mystery by Ira Levin, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on June 3, 4 and 9 through 11,…
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Mountain music on Franklin town square
Balladeers Anne and Rob Lough will present a concert of traditional music at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 5, on…
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WCU series offers foray into glassblowing
A series of introductory glassblowing classes will begin in June at the Jackson County Green Energy Park. Students may choose…
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Learn to spin, throw and pull with pottery classes
Adult pottery courses will be offered this summer by Southwestern Community College’s Heritage Arts Institute at the SCC Swain Center.…
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Women awaken their consciousness
A Women’s Circle focusing on the divine feminine within will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 2, at The…
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Discover the art in nature with workshops
Art workshops that provide encounters with nature will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 5, with…
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Good Old Time Camp to be offered
The Good Old Time camp, a summer day camp for children, will be held 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., June…
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Quilt festival celebrates history and heritage
The 6th annual Patchwork Folk and Fabric Festival is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 4,…
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Waynesville’s Art After Dark is June 3
The Waynesville Gallery Association will present Art After Dark from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, June 3. Art After…
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The secret of silk
For 3,000 years, the source of silk — shimmering, luxurious and terribly expensive — was a closely guarded secret. Silk…
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Serpents elicit mixed responses among humankind
Serpents are among the world’s most storied creatures. We are at once attracted to and repelled by them. Many view…
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Get kids involved in free fishing fun
Kids can fish for free and register to win prizes, including two lifetime licenses, at a variety of fishing events…
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Kids get first crack at delayed trout waters
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open approximately 63.5 miles of trout streams and one lake classified as delayed-harvest trout…
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“Salamander Soiree” at the Highlands Nature Center
A Salamander Soiree is set for June 2 at 6 p.m. as the kickoff to “Think About Thursdays,” a summer…
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Smokies conducts search for missing man
Rangers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park are continuing to search for a Cary man who was reported missing April…
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Author to speak at Pisgah Center
On June 4, from 10 a.m. until noon at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, Tim Spira will give a…
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