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Sylva finds it easy being green Solar panels and passive heating find their places in new police, fire stations
Published: 2012-03-06 21:42:08The Town of Sylva, in a quiet way, is busy setting a green example for its Western North Carolina neighbors. First the fire department, and now the new police department, incorporate green, environmentally friendly components. Sylva’s police soon will ...
Read MoreFamily welcomes charges in baby’s death
Published: 2012-02-07 20:54:28Caron Swayney knew better than to torture herself, but still she occasionally found herself drawn to the trailer park where the cold, limp body of her 15-month-old niece was discovered dead in the middle of the night last January. “I would go down ther...
Read More2011 In Review
Published: 2011-12-28 13:17:48The Smoky Mountain News takes note this week of some of the newsmakers of 2011 by handing out our annual awards. Back issues of the newspaper never fail to reveal a variety of humdingers: the funny, the astonishing, the interesting, the dismaying. Some w...
Read MoreNew Cherokee Home Center fills a void
Published: 2011-09-27 20:37:17While the rest of the mountains remain mired in a construction slowdown, a new building supply and home improvement store opened in Cherokee last month, filling what seems to be a very real void. A steady stream of construction workers on tribal building...
Read MoreThe best of 2008
Published: 2011-07-28 16:26:59Every year about this time, reporters dig out their old files and back editions and start cruising the headlines for the top stories of the year. Lucky for us, there never seems to be shortage of material for the “Year in Review” issue. A year has ye...
Read MoreThe tragic life of Aubrey Littlejohn: Family members feared for child’s safety
Published: 2011-03-01 20:23:47Relatives say they warned social workers repeatedly over the course of several months that Aubrey Littlejohn was being neglected and abused. Called by her middle name by family, 15-month-old Kina-Marie died on a mattress on the floor of a singlewide trai...
Read MoreA fascinating murder story
Published: 2010-08-24 19:40:04On a hot July night in 1935, a young Wise County, Virginia, school teacher named Edith Maxwell came home late. Her father Trigg, who did not approve of his daughter’s late hours, confronted her and a violent argument (which turned into scuffle) develop...
Read MoreTrying for a lifetime to forgive
Published: 2010-08-17 20:06:36Inside Mary J. Messer’s cozy Bargain Books in Waynesville, hundreds of thousands of books are stacked ceiling high. Messer sits herself close to the door so she can greet customers as soon as they walk in and help them navigate the immense selection. N...
Read MoreMedicaid applicant victim of financial theft by DSS worker
Published: 2010-08-11 14:00:00An elderly man was swindled out of $5,500 by a Department of Social Services employee in Swain County, according to an investigation by the Bryson City police department. As nursing home bills for his wife mounted, the man had sought help from DSS worker...
Read More2009: Looking back at the newsmakers
Published: 2009-12-30 15:54:30The Smoky Mountain News is paying homage this week to some of the newsmakers of 2009 by dishing out our annual awards. Few would chalk up 2009 as a year they want to remember, given the generally gloomy pall cast by the recession over nearly every facet ...
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