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Coronavirus updates from Macon County officials
Published: 2020-03-19 18:22:10Macon County Board of Commissioners held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss how the county is preparing to deal with the Coronavirus locally. . As already reported, a New York resident who tested positive for COVID-19 in Buncombe County is now is...
Read MoreJackson jail death spurs lawsuit
Published: 2020-03-11 13:30:24The family of a Sylva woman who died by suicide in the Jackson County Detention Center last year has filed suit in federal district court against members of the sheriff’s department who handled her incarceration. Filed by Rice’s son Matthew Dillard, ...
Read MoreIt’s me, it’s me, it’s Ernest T.
Published: 2020-01-22 15:08:57As a parent, I’ve tried hard to avoid indoctrinating my children with my political leanings, spiritual beliefs, sports fanaticism, or who is better, the Stones or the Beatles. I wanted them to be free thinkers. And yet, I could find no way to avoid ind...
Read MorePeer support inside jail helps inmates have hope
Published: 2019-11-27 15:23:11CJ Deering sat at her desk inside the Haywood County Detention Center when she got a surprise phone call from a woman who had been sentenced to prison nine months ago. . “That’s wonderful, honey,” Deering says in a loving motherly voice. “I think...
Read MoreRight from the source: Smoky Mountain Folk Festival celebrates 50 years
Published: 2019-08-28 14:02:04Atop a hill on the western edge of downtown Waynesville, just past the invisible line where the delicious smell of down home food stops wafting from nearby Bogart’s Restaurant & Tavern, sits a picturesque century-old home. With a fresh cup of coffee in...
Read MoreForced to Fight: Addicts long for life beyond heroin
Published: 2019-08-14 13:26:42Editor’s note: Names have been changed to protect the identity of those interviewed for this story. Five miles down an Appalachian dirt road 45 minutes from nowhere is where Daphne Laurel was raised, right in the heart of the sparsely populated mountai...
Read MoreHaywood’s ‘hidden history’: Monument to Waynesville lynching victim could prove controversial
Published: 2019-03-27 13:36:21Almost 120 years ago, local newspapers reported two separate instances of attempted rape in Haywood County. Similarities between the two cases are many. Both victims were young girls under the age of 11, both alleged perpetrators were grown men, both kne...
Read MoreFace to face: Local homeless remain elusive
Published: 2019-02-06 14:38:01Huddled together in the dark near an old wood stove beneath an elaborate rigging of tarps and tents on a debris-strewn mucky dirt lot they’d called home for nearly a year, Susan “Sassy” Fulp and her fiancé Ronnie Hicks watched the heavy wet snow f...
Read MoreNever give up: Franklin native survived years of torture in Vietnam POW camp
Published: 2018-11-07 13:47:06Just west of the town of Franklin, along a winding back road heading into the mountains surrounding Wayah Bald, sits a picturesque old farmhouse across the street from a babbling stream. Sitting on the porch of that farmhouse one recent afternoon, gazing...
Read MoreMacon commissioner incumbents run to keep seats
Published: 2018-10-17 14:09:31Two incumbent candidates running for re-election to the Macon County Board of Commissioners say they want to see the current board’s progress continue, but the two challengers — one Republican and one Democrat — say the county is moving in the wron...
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