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View the lunar eclipse
A total eclipse of the moon will occur Sunday, Jan. 20, with multiple opportunities to view this Super Blood Wolf…
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Grandfather Mountain has record wet year
Wet weather was the norm across Western North Carolina last year, and Grandfather Mountain was no exception — a record…
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The Naturalist's Corner: Live and die by Lake J
Jan. 4, 2019 was a dreary day. It was more than that; it was a dreary Balsam Christmas Bird Count…
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Waynesville steps up to address affordable housing crisis
Like the region’s opioid crisis, if Western North Carolina’s affordable housing crisis could have been solved by meetings, panel discussions…
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Pigeon Center seeks donations after fire
A small kitchen fire caused big problems at Waynesville’s Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center Jan. 8, prompting the organization to…
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WCU chancellor interview process begins
In a search that is now entering its second year, Western Carolina University’s Chancellor Search Committee is preparing to interview…
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Park to restore accessibility, visitor services
Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced that recently closed areas of the park were once again accessible to visitors beginning…
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Semi-trucks still a hazard on Highlands Road
More signage and stricter law enforcement could be the solution to keeping tractor trailers off Highlands Road.
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Effort underway to make WNC counties ‘Blue Zone’ certified
On the Greek island of Ikaria, its population of 10,000 people live an average of 10 years longer than Americans,…
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Good Samaritan’s last good deed
For 20 years, Good Samaritan Clinic provided much needed health care services to people of Haywood County. Even though the…
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Scarcity, rising prices drive affordable housing crisis
A booming real estate market brings with it many benefits and is a sign of a thriving economy, but some…
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Town to take action on homeless encampment
A beef between the Town of Waynesville and local property owner Ron Muse over an ersatz dwelling on an otherwise…
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Tribe petitions Meadows to end shutdown
The ongoing federal government shutdown is having a negative effect on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and last week…
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Work begins on alternative N.C. 107 plan
More than 100 people filled the Jackson County Public Library’s Community Room Jan. 14 to help kick off the Asheville…
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Entegra Bank mergers with SmartFinancial
SmartFinancial, Inc., the parent company of SmartBank, and Entegra Financial Corp., the parent company of Entegra Bank, jointly announced Tuesday…
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Combining the culinary arts: Mad Anthony’s pairs craft beer, fine dining
Just off Main Street in Waynesville, tucked down the hill below Bogart’s, and across the street from American Legion Post…
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This must be the place: Ode to my best gal
She’s known as “Wild Kathy.” At least, that’s what she was nicknamed while joyously roaming Bourbon Street in New Orleans…
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WCU’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration
Tying in with Western Carolina University’s 2018-19 campus learning theme “Defining America,” the keynote speaker for this year’s Martin Luther…
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Running toward her goals: Catamount student succeeds with Heart & Sole program
Born with cerebral palsy, Jaylyn Logan’s nana Marvellia Ross knew that her granddaughter’s life would have limitations. However, a new…
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Record turnout for First Day hikes
A record 3,859 people rang in the New Year at North Carolina State Parks by participating in one of the…
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Bear tests positive for rabies
A black bear found dead in Hyde County in Eastern North Carolina has tested positive for rabies, the first known…
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Winter Lights a success
Winter Lights at the N.C. Arboretum had a record-setting season, drawing nearly 40,000 guests over the course of its six-week…
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Sustainable forestry awards announced
The Nature Conservancy’s work to promote sustainable forestry in Western North Carolina has been recognized with the organization receiving one…
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A master in our midst
Michael Revere grew up here in these mountains. He went to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
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Mountain lion lore
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in a March 2006 edition of The Smoky Mountain News. I frequently hear from people…
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We gym rats have our own little cliques
When I was in my teens, I was so skinny that people winced when they saw me. The local druggist…
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Hard-line conservatives own this shutdown
“I think it’s the right thing to do as much as we use the park and as free as this…
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Build the wall at all costs
To the Editor We must save the Trump Presidency. Build the Wall! Never mind that it mortgages our children’s future.…
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Community steps up to care for parks during shutdown
The National Park Service is closed. Sort of. When the clock struck midnight on Dec. 22, 2018, the latest continuing…
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Cruising the Smokies under shutdown
It’s just after 11 a.m. on a weekday, and while a road sign at the Cherokee entrance to the Great…
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The lowdown on the shutdown
There are plenty of misconceptions about the federal government shutdown — what it is, who it affects, how it happens,…
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SBI investigates threats to Swain sheriff, deputies
Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran recently called upon the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation to investigate alleged threats against…
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Clyde trailer park without water for a month
The residents at M&M Trailer Park in Clyde were without water for nearly a month after the Junaluska Sanitary District…
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Haywood swears in first new county attorney since Nixon administration
Not for nearly half a century has anyone been able to say, “Haywood County has a new county attorney,” but…
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Commissioners wrestle with Haywood Schools’ office dilemma
After a minor delay due to the concerns of a newly-elected commissioner, Haywood County has again decided to move forward…
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Financing decisions finalized for SCC health building
Quarter-cent sales tax money in Jackson County will be available sooner and in greater quantities than previously planned due to…
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Tribe considers ginseng regulations
An alarming decrease in the population of ginseng on Cherokee tribal land is prompting the tribe to look at cracking…
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WCU athletics on the upswing
Randy Eaton isn’t a fortune teller, but the Western Carolina University athletic director sees a winning future for WCU teams.
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It’s election season again, already
That’s right. It may seem like election season just ended, but it’s also just beginning, and in less than 300…
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Boojum, Evergreen seek county development incentives
A pair of public hearings for a pair of local businesses — one old, one new, one small and one…
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Harris hospital welcomes first 2019 baby
Harris Regional Hospital is ringing in 2019 with the year’s first bundle of joy. Weighing 8 pounds and measuring 19.5…
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Out in the open: Steep Canyon Rangers to play homecoming show
Adjusting his baseball cap, Graham Sharp leans forward and takes another sip of coffee. It’s late morning at the Tastee…
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This must be the place: That time the trees all came falling down
This week marks just over 20 years since The Great Ice Storm of 1998. In early January of that year,…
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A writer’s retreat: GSMA offers writing residency in the Smokies
Steve Kemp moved to the Great Smoky Mountains in 1987 for what would become a 30-year career with the Great…
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Road closures to begin in Pisgah
Seasonal road closures are underway in the Pisgah National Forest. Certain roads are closed each winter to help protect wildlife…
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Brevard gear manufacturer to expand
SylvanSport is expanding its operations with an upcoming move to a new factory in Transylvania County.
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Waynesville Parks and Rec wants opinions
The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department is looking for feedback on its programs through a survey now online.
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The Naturalist's Corner: Flocking together
Birding buddy and former subcontractor for my Forest Service point-count survey, Kirk Gardner, was in town for the holidays and…
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The unbelievable kindness of Mr. Rogers
My online dictionary defines hagiography as “the writing of the lives of the saints, adulatory writing about another person, or…
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