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Rumble Readers Offer Best Relationship Advice
As we focus on relationships this week, we reached out to our Rumble readers to get their insight into what…
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Elderly in Haywood can pre-register for vaccine
Beginning Jan. 6, Haywood County residents over the age of 75, who have not already been included in a previous…
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Life, dreams, canoes and rivers
One fond childhood memory involves a yellow fiberglass canoe and the Yadkin River. My dad, one of my younger brothers,…
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Arboretum shifts to winter hours
Starting Monday, Jan. 11, the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville will resume its normal winter hours of 8 a.m. to 7…
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Virtual nature: Highlands Biological gets creative with outreach amid pandemic
By Geoff Cantrell • Contributing writer | In a typical school year, Highlands Biological Station serves nearly 10,000 students through…
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New bee species found in the Great Smokies
By Jonathan Austin • Contributing writer | A recently documented bee species has been identified living in the Great Smoky…
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A promise to keep on keepin’ on
How does one best express gratitude? That thought kept coming up as I sat down to write a column for…
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Freedom isn’t free
By Heather Hyatt Packer • Guest Columnist | There’s a lot of discussion about freedom, rights and patriotism when discussing…
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After Trump, table is set for dictator
To the Editor: “Incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government, or any action (especially in speech or writing) promoting such…
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Cawthorn’s judgement should worry us
To the Editor: I am worried. Our newly elected congressman Madison Cawthorn contests what he has tweeted about as the…
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Folkmoot’s future is in good hands
To the Editor: Arts organizations have had an extraordinarily challenging time during the pandemic, and it’s been no different for…
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Tribal members seek to reverse casino purchase
A group of 14 tribal members that includes two sitting Tribal Council members and a former principal chief has entered…
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Jackson County fire chief dies from COVID
The COVID-19 death count in Jackson County nearly doubled over the holiday season, increasing from 10 as of Nov. 25…
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Anti-mask, anti-vax views raise concerns
One of the loudest voices against masks and vaccines during recent public comment sessions in Haywood County also serves on…
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Pardon me? Haywood man’s presidential pardon reveals systemic inequities
On a frosty Appalachian mountain morning in 1962, 22-year-old Waynesville man Charles Miller brought his car to a stop on…
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State finds Swain jail death caused by cardiac arrest
After a four-month investigation into the sudden death of a 25-year-old Cherokee man inside the Swain County Detention Center, the…
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Opposition forms against proposed Haywood jail
A Nov. 3 report by the Haywood County Sheriff’s Office demonstrating the need for a $16 million expansion to the…
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Proof is in the pie: Dough Boys artisanal pizza opens in Waynesville
Grabbing a seat inside Mad Anthony’s Taproom in downtown Waynesville one recent evening, Benji Boessel and Alex Tinsley can’t help…
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This must be the place: One hundred years from this day, will the people still feel this way
It was somewhere around the the second mile of my New Year’s Eve jog that I realized that day marked…
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7 Conversations to Have Before Marriage
When you get to the point of marriage in a relationship, it’s important to establish a strong foundation beforehand. Part…
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Hightower Shares Her Passion For Planning
Q&A with Asheville-based entrepreneur, designer, venue owner and wedding planning guru, Candace Hightower.
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327 new COVID cases reported in Haywood
In the week since the last press release, Haywood County Public Health has received notice of 327 new cases of…
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Positive gains continue in WNC housing market
The mountain counties of Western North Carolina posted yet another strong month of home sales in November according to the…
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Haywood reports six more COVID-19 deaths
Haywood County Health and Human Services is reporting six more COVID-19 deaths, bringing the total number now to 68.
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Down Home Haywood leads campaign against new jail
On Monday, Jan. 4, Down Home North Carolina Haywood and local community members will hold a press conference to announce…
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Residents can apply for heating assistance from N.C.
RALEIGH —The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced beginning Jan. 4, households can apply for the Low-Income…
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Three new COVID deaths reported in Macon
Three Macon County residents diagnosed with COVID-19 have passed away. The persons were over the age of 65 and had…
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Former NPS director dies from COVID-19
Former National Park Service Director Gary Everhardt passed away on Sunday, Dec. 27, following a battle with COVID-19 and just days after…
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Haywood Health begins COVID vaccinations
Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency has begun distribution of its first allotment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
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Untreated sewage discharged into Pigeon River
The Junaluska Sanitary District experienced a discharge of untreated sewage from a broken sewer main.
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Resolved To Be High Maintenance in 2021
No one needs reminding that this year was dismal. In addition to our commonly shared pandemic misery, I have endured…
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Rumble Shares New Years Resolutions
Happy New Year, Rumble readers! As we bring 2020 to a close, we wanted to share some lessons we learned…
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Ten great outdoor moments from 2020
There’s been a lot of focus lately on all the ways that the last 12 months have been hard and…
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Bring knowledge to your home garden
A series of horticulture classes aimed at home gardeners will be offered in the New Year through Haywood County Cooperative…
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Three added to Agricultural Hall of Fame
The N.C. Agricultural Hall of Fame now has three new members following the induction of John Holman Cyrus, Fred N.…
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WCU professor tapped for Virginia governor’s coastal planning team
Rob Young, director of Western Carolina University’s Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, was recently appointed by Virginia Gov.…
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Report mudpuppy sightings
Biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission are asking the public, particularly anglers, to submit any sightings of mudpuppies to…
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Secrets, winning friends, and ‘Ivanhoe’
All families have their secrets, but some families have deeper and darker secrets than others. In June Titus’s novel Banjo Man…
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Oh My Yurt!
Solitude is extremely underrated. It’s something I don’t get enough of but for whatever this year has had me craving…
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Nowhere to go but forward into 2021
This year has prompted a reckoning unlike any in memory, so we’re all looking to put a bow on 2020…
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Keep hope alive in the new year
In February 2020, I was in New York City attending a children’s book writing conference. My boyfriend attended the conference…
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History will treat Trump enablers badly
To the Editor: Republicans seem to have given up on our Constitution and democracy. Instead, they have opted to follow…
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Remove Presson from Healthcare Foundation
To the Editor: Your recent report about Waynesville’s Emergency Ordinance (“Waynesville passes State of Emergency ordinance”) includes a description of Janet…
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The caring spirit was remarkable in 2020
To the Editor: I recently read an article that asked, “What will be your story of 2020?” I’ve since given…
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Fake News Freakout! Five
By Cory Vaillancourt • Fake News Editor | When I started writing this yearly feature five years ago, it was…
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2020: Burn, baby, burn
They say hindsight is 2020 and that is definitely true as we’re all eager to put this disaster of a…
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Macon Human Services closes due to hazardous chemicals
Macon County Human Services building (which includes the Department of Social Services, Macon County Public Health, and Code Enforcement) was…
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Rabies positive racoon found in Macon
Macon County has identified a rabies positive raccoon. The raccoon was turned over to Macon County Animal Services after it…
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Strike not our brother down: Steve McMurry of Acoustic Syndicate
In the pantheon of legendary jam-grass acts, a handful of pioneering bands broke new ground in the 1980s and 1990s…
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This must be the place: You would do anything, you’d give up everything for god knows why
Christmas Eve. Downtown Waynesville. Sitting alone in my one-bedroom apartment, I was bummed that I couldn’t be back home in…
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