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Musician Lorraine Conard plots her own course
Some musicians just have to discover themselves. Waynesville singer-songwriter Lorraine Conard grew up singing at church and in plays, jotting…
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Overlooks in southern Appalachia
High-elevation overlooks are one of our finest natural resources. These vantage points allow us to rise above our everyday humdrum…
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A forest guide for the novice
A new book titled The Forests of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park serves as a guide to understanding and…
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Builders can get an edge with HCC green building crash course
An eight-week course on the Fundamentals of Green Building will be held at Haywood Community College starting Aug. 30. The…
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Energy expo to feature sustainable lifestyles
The tenth annual Southern Energy and Environment Expo this weekend in Asheville will features dozens of programs and exhibits on…
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Photographers sought to document trees of the Parkway
Photographers should get to work now to come up with their best mountain images for the eighth annual Appalachian Mountain…
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Foot Rx brings 5K race to Jackson County
A cross-country style 5K race in Cullowhee sponsored by Foot Rx of Asheville, a running shoe store, will be held…
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The oil is gone! Long live the oil!
A week or so ago White House energy adviser Carol Browner was hitting the morning TV circuit, telling anyone who…
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A few wrong turns on the way to paradise
I grabbed my guidebook and pen and wrapped my camera in a plastic grocery bag as it started to rain.…
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The allure of falling water
Although most people are drawn to waterfalls, many pause before they can articulate why. For some, it’s the sound of…
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Coffee with poet Bill Everett
Poet Bill Everett, author of Red Clay Blood River, will appear at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 19, as this month’s…
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Authors release photographic history of Waynesville
Michael Beadle and Peter Yurko have published a new photographic history of Waynesville in honor of the town’s bicentennial this…
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Authors of two new mountain memoirs speak
Jean Boone Benfield, of Asheville, will read from her new book, Mountain Born: A Recollection of Life and Language in…
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A grim look at Appalachia
Authors often dig into their childhood to mine for the coal and diamonds of their books. Sometimes they use the…
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Wheels Through Time is a great place to visit
To the Editor: I recently had occasion to take a 10-day camping and motorcycling trip. Maggie Valley was selected as…
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Nothing good about another Wal-Mart
To the Editor: The dollar signs twinkling in the aldermen’s eyes were glaringly visible at the town of Franklin meeting…
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Honor suffragists by voting in November
To the Editor: In a column dated Aug. 13, Gail Collins of The New York Times reminds us that August…
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Shuler vote keeps public servants at their jobs
To the Editor: I commend Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., for his support of H.R. 1586, the “Education, Jobs, and Medicaid…
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Our thanks to the Haywood health board
To the Editor: Tuesday night (Aug. 10) the Haywood County health board voted to table the amendment (for 90 days)…
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Kituwah was the wrong place for development
To the Editor: Some locations just aren’t suitable for development, let alone to be utilized by a major utility project.…
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On this vacation, we were definitely packing heat
Edisto, SC – Heat like this has a relentlessness that is unnerving. You try giving it the slip, it follows…
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Chevy hybrid put through the paces
When General Motors began looking for a good place to test the power of a new Hybrid car being released…
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Benefit dinner planned for Catman2 shelter
The Balsam Mountain Inn will have a special dinner at 6 and 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 24 to provide donations…
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Arts building debate focuses on cost, green technology, and importance of craft industry
A crowd of 50 Haywood Community College supporters turned out Monday at a two-and-a-half hour public hearing to urge county…
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Waynesville’s special police unit puts new spin on fighting crime
Not long ago, Waynesville’s historic Frog Level district was fraught with littered beer bottles and an unrelenting band of vagrants.…
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Trying for a lifetime to forgive
Inside Mary J. Messer’s cozy Bargain Books in Waynesville, hundreds of thousands of books are stacked ceiling high. Messer sits…
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Retired general to speak to Jackson GOP
The Jackson County GOP’s Orville Coward Forum on Public Issues program featuring Retired U.S. Marine Corp Gen. Geoff Higginbotham will…
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Cherokee’s new nerve center pushes the envelope inside and out
State-of-the-art defines just about everything the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians builds these days. Gorgeous architectural lines, native mountain building…
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Jackson businesses checked for taxable equipment
Jackson County launched a comprehensive audit two years ago to make sure businesses are paying enough taxes on all their…
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Jackson Paper says tax bill tallied unfairly
After being hit with a county audit of its machinery, Jackson Paper factory in Sylva is disputing what it considers…
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Cowee hatches plans for community center of the first degree
According to public input so far, a reworked Cowee School could bear close resemblance to another historic Western North Carolina…
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“Fantasies in Fiber and Fabric” come to life
“Fantasies in Fiber and Fabric,” an exhibition of three-dimensional garments, hats, bags, and one-of-a-kind original dolls by Toni Carroll, will…
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‘America’s Got Talent’ winner Neal Boyd to perform at WCU
Pop-opera performer and 2008 winner of television show “America’s Got Talent,” Neal E. Boyd will open the 2010-11 Galaxy of…
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Local favorite Sons of Ralph play fundraiser for Canton Lions Club Aug. 28
Asheville-based mountain and bluegrass group Sons of Ralph will perform a fundraising concert for the Canton Lions Club from 6…
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“Box of Souls” winner of sculpture contest
The winner of the Jackson County Green Energy Park 2010 Sculpture Competition is Box of Souls, a contemporary sculpture by…
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Art and nature merge in outdoor sculpture
Thanks to a group of enthusiastic volunteers from the area, a new Patrick Dougherty sapling sculpture has been constructed at…
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The secretive, intelligent and prolific crow
Like most commonly observed objects, crows flit across our field of vision unheeded. Caw-caw-cawing unmusically … flap-flap-flapping over the fields…
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Waynesville farmer’s markets learn to coexist after split
Twenty-five years ago, a fledgling farmers market got its modest start in a small parking lot on Waynesville’s Main Street…
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Alcohol sales part of grander scheme at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino
Just over a year ago, the members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians voted to allow alcohol sales at…
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Casino impact on ABC sales not a windfall yet
When the Bryson City and Sylva ABC boards hammered out a profit-sharing agreement for liquor orders from Harrah’s Casino, there…
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Barefoot runner on crusade for kids
When Boone resident Matt Jenkins began his 760-mile barefoot run across North Carolina, he didn’t figure it would end with…
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Patient-friendly innovations highlighted at Harris Medical Park
Harris Medical Park, the newly-constructed medical office building adjacent to Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, is now open, providing patients…
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Hospital hosts annual medical symposium
The Highlands-Cashiers Hospital and its Board of Directors is offering area physicians, active and retired, the opportunity to attend a…
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Farmers and chefs come to table
The Buy Haywood Project is bringing farmers and chefs from Haywood County and surrounding counties together for the third in…
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HRMC foundation holds golf outing
The Haywood Regional Medical Center Foundation will host the 19th Annual Charitable Classic Golf & Gala Aug. 31 and Sept.…
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MedWest introduces new physicians
MedWest Health System invites the community to meet several new physicians who have recently joined the medical staff at its…
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Forest Hills hears Cullowhee’s pitch to join forces
The idea of turning Cullowhee into a real town drew several dozen people to a public presentation last week where…
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WCU unveils plans for Town Center
Western Carolina University hopes to create a new commercial hub to bolster life on campus and serve the larger Cullowhee…
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Jackson Green Energy Park gets its day in the sun
The Jackson County Green Energy Park took center stage last week as Governor Bev Perdue and the Appalachian Regional Commission…
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Federal money to outfit community college with green teaching tools
A $300,000 federal grant awarded to three community colleges will help ready a Western North Carolina workforce for the rapidly…
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