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Road work underway in the Smokies
A pavement preservation project is underway on Little River Road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, expected to result…
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New relay planned for Western NC
A relay race set to debut this year will offer teams of four the challenge of traveling from Asheville to…
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Statewide wildfire response drill comes to Haywood
In the midst of an exceptionally warm, dry winter, a wildfire erupted on Mount Lyn Lowry. About 170 acres when…
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Education program earns regional recognition
Muddy Sneakers, an outdoor science education program based in Brevard, recently won two awards in a Blue Ridge Outdoors voting…
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Smokies records highest-ever visitation
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park set a new visitation record for 2018, welcoming 11.4 million visitors to its 816…
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Arboretum to expand environmental education
A $1 million grant will allow the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville to expand its innovative K-12 science education programs to…
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Congress votes to reauthorize Land and Water Conservation Fund
Congress has voted to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund following a 363-62 vote of the U.S. House…
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The Naturalist's Corner: The St. Croix chronicles
St. Croix’s adolescent hormones were coursing through his lean muscular body when the urge to leave the Black Hills of…
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Shining Rock head of school fired
Barely a year after he was hired, Nathan Duncan is out at Shining Rock Classical Academy.
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Smokies records highest-ever visitation in 2018
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park set a new visitation record for 2018, welcoming 11.4 million visitors to its 816…
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Hysteria yes; a national emergency, no
Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty-eight dead. Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia. Thirty-three dead. Stoneman Douglass High School, Parkland,…
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N.C. legislators have a chance at redistricting
By Martin Dyckman • Guest Columnist The North Carolina General Assembly is where good bills go to die. So it…
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Climate change must be addressed
To the Editor: As the undeniable scientific evidence of climate change and its causes and consequences mount, it is unfortunate…
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Living soil: Waynesville woman digs into worm farming
Valley View Worms has an origin story that’s about as unusual as the vermiculture business itself, with plotlines hinging on…
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Agriculture grant winners announced
Five local farms are among the 39 businesses awarded a total of $216,000 in this year’s WNC Agricultural Options grant…
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Congress moves forward on Land and Water Conservation Fund reauthorization
The U.S. Senate voted Feb. 12 to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, an important funding source for…
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New state natural area achieves milestone
A recent 1,500 acre land purchase by the Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina and North Carolina State Parks marked acquisition…
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Fly fishing museum seeks donations
Donations are wanted to help create a display set for the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians and Appalachian…
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Reading aloud is good medicine for all
Here are two books about books, one aimed at amusement, the other at instruction. Or so they were written and…
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African-American history at Sunburst oft overlooked
In a county as old as Haywood, there exist all manner of half-remembered places and faces long gone from the…
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Mission CEO takes job with HCA
According to an internal email leaked to the Asheville Citizen-Times, Mission’s CEO Dr. Ron Paulus will be leaving his post…
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Hospital foundations find new mission
Following HCA Healthcare’s purchase of the Mission Health System, the nonprofit foundations that have supported Mission’s hospitals for so long…
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Dogwood hires search firm to find director
As all of Mission’s legacy foundations establish their new mission and board of directors, Dogwood Health Trust is in the…
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Macon, Franklin work on greenway connection
Macon County and the town of Franklin are working on a collaborative project to create a new greenway connection on…
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Jackson County chews on $12 million Green Energy Park campus proposal
Last week Jackson County commissioners got their first look at what a re-imagined Green Energy Park campus might cost, with…
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Spate of new downtown Waynesville businesses emerges
With his thick Brooklyn accent, Danny Mannlein isn’t exactly the type of “local” most Haywood County residents are used to…
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Room price, capacity drive TDA revenues
As the Great Recession recedes further and further into the rear-view mirror, most local economic indicators in Western North Carolina…
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HCC offers free tuition to needy Haywood students
Financial aid and scholarships are a great way to pay for college, but not everyone qualifies. For those who do,…
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Race against time for Waynesville homeless camp
The longstanding brouhaha over a makeshift dwelling near Frog Level has escalated to the point where enforcement action is likely…
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Cell tower proposed for Sylva
A proposal to build a new cell tower off of Skyland Drive in Sylva will go before the Jackson County…
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Constitution proposed for Cherokee
Cherokee voters will have the chance to give their nation a long-awaited constitution if Tribal Council approves a referendum question…
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Medicaid on their minds at Rep. Queen’s town hall
Four-time freshman legislator and recently re-elected Rep. Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, launched into this year’s legislative session by hosting a…
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The table is set: Pancake Day is free to community this year
The table is set — all you have to do is come sit down and be served.
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Coming down the mountain: Whiteside Brewing impacts Cashiers culture
It’s just after 5 p.m. at the intersection of U.S. 64 and N.C. 107 in the village of Cashiers. Otherwise…
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Coming down the mountain: Whiteside Brewing impacts Cashiers culture
It’s just after 5 p.m. at the intersection of U.S. 64 and N.C. 107 in the village of Cashiers. Otherwise…
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This must be the place: If I ever loved once, you know I never loved right by you
Ah, Valentine’s Day. Upstate New York in the late 1990s. Middle school and Valentine’s Day dances in that a-typical gymnasium.…
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Shelton House receives honor, call for crafters
The Shelton House in Waynesville is proud to announce that it has been awarded an anchor position on the new…
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Waynesville woman, child reported missing
UPDATE: The missing woman and child have been located and are safe. Detectives with the Haywood County Sheriff’s office are…
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Grandfather Mountain sets new wind speed record
LINVILLE, N.C. — On Grandfather Mountain, breaking records is a breeze. Around 4 a.m. on Feb. 13, the nonprofit nature park’s…
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Careers can wait; it’s time for some adventuring
When the text came letting us know that our daughter Hannah had arrived safely in Costa Rica, a sense of…
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Sandburg’s words are needed now more than ever
When my mom was living, she owned a tour company called Southern Comfort Tours. She opened the business in her…
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We need CLEAN Medicaid Expansion
To the Editor: When it comes to health insurance, North Carolina has the sixth largest uninsured population in the nation.…
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Cat Museum will promote Jackson County
To the Editor: I am opening The American Museum of the House Cat at a new location in April. I…
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Video series celebrates wetlands
The Dogwood Alliance released a new video series on wetlands for World Wetlands Day, which was Feb. 2.
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Elk fest coming to Maggie: Event will celebrate elk, wildlife and the outdoors
A new extravaganza will prance into the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds this year — the Smoky Mountain Elk Fest, an…
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Pigeon Forge recognized for wildfire risk reduction
The city of Pigeon Forge is gaining national attention for its work to safeguard the community against wildfires, having recently…
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The Naturalist's Corner: How can somethingthat doesn’t exist be declared extinct?
I believe it was around Jan. 22 of this year the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the eastern cougar…
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A worthwhile book on raising children
Much is made these days of “snowflakes,” slang for some of our young people. One online source defines snowflakes as…
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Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet celebrates 25 years
The Sylva-based Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet will present a concert celebrating 25 years of music, travel and fun together on…
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