Paying the price: Will checkered past haunt congressional candidate?
Last week, Phillip Price prevailed in a competitive three-way Democratic primary for the right to challenge incumbent Asheville Republican Congressman Mark Meadows in November.
Tourism now the top industry in the region
By Nick Breedlove • Guest Columnist
On May 6-12 we celebrate National Tourism Week, and this year’s theme from the U.S. Travel Association is “Then and Now.”
In my role as Director of the Jackson County Tourism Development Authority, my goal is to create awareness about what a special place this area is and to inspire others to travel here and spend a night, or two or three.
The forlorn calls of the yellow-billed cuckoo
Editor’s note: This column first appeared in The Smoky Mountain News in May 2008.
O Cuckoo! Shall I call thee Bird,
Or but a wandering Voice?
— William Wordsworth
Walking in someone else’s story: Swain students find common ground with NYC students
On the surface, students in Swain County grow up worlds apart from students in New York City.
#MeToo: Shedding the stigma around sexual assault
Five years ago, Haywood County resident Janelle Smith was working late when a much older male colleague she’d thought of as a friend and mentor cornered her and attempted to sexually assault her. Although she fought him off, the incident left her feeling physically violated, emotionally upset and, she said, ashamed.
Women’s municipal government group reorganizes
Representatives from the revamped North Carolina Women in Municipal Government visited Maggie Valley last weekend to recruit women from the towns of Western North Carolina.
A closer look at festivals in Western North Carolina
The proud communities that make up Western North Carolina were once mountain towns that played host to several successful blue-collar industries. We’re talking about logging, furniture, paper products, auto parts, beverages, textiles, and so on. The country needed things, and needed them fast, and folks here made those products with their bare hands.
These companies found a crucial, much-needed balance alongside the serene beauty and endless natural resources of our forests, rivers and wildlife.
Learn to paddle at NOC youth camp
For 15 years Nantahala Outdoor Center instructors have been teaching kids and teens how to maneuver the waters of Western North Carolina during its summer camp programs.
Summer youth events at Lake Junaluska
Church youth groups of all sizes are invited to Lake Junaluska for five Summer Youth Events June 17 to July 31.
Jackson launches outdoors camp
With a whole world of mountain beauty to explore, summer leaves no time to waste indoors.
