Readers get creative and submit their own slogans
Thanks to our dear Smoky Mountain News readers, some excellent ideas for slogans poured in through our Facebook site over…
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Registration under way for golf tourney
Registration is under way for the inaugural Bob Buckner Endowment Golf Tournament, an event to help raise financial support for…
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LEGO focus of upcoming workshop
Kids can learn more about LEGO building projects from 9:15-11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 12, at Western Carolina University. The LEGO…
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Women in business luncheon, May 15
A program titled “Two Sides of the Leadership Coin, a Male and Female Perspective” will be held from 11:30 a.m.…
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New regulations send planners back to the drawing board
The Macon County Planning Board has been given one simple task: review the subdivision ordinance with the intention of making…
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Program on Cherokee mounds in Jackson
Ben Steere will discuss Cherokee pre-history and archaeology at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in the community room of the…
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Haywood leads state in electronics recycling
Haywood County leads the state in electronics recycling, based on a new survey released in March by the N.C. Department…
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What’s in a name? Image is everything when it comes to slogans
Tee Coker and his company recently learned firsthand something they probably already suspected about creating brands and taglines for towns.…
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South Main plan dredges up old parking debate
The Waynesville Board of Aldermen approved a revitalization plan for South Main Street last week despite a dispute over one…
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Stewardship of Macon Indian mound questioned
A move by the town of Franklin to spray the ancient Nikwasi Indian Mound with weed killer is not sitting…
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Swain County property values looking up
Tim Cain has a bird’s eye view of Swain County’s real estate market, and from where he sits, the news…
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Sports clinic scheduled at Macon health center
A sports physical clinic for school athletic programs will be held from 4:30-7 p.m. Friday, May 11, at the Macon…
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Franklin public workshop set for truck-turnaround proposal
A public workshop on a proposed truck turn-around and information station on U.S. 64 in Franklin will be held from…
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HCC makes pitch for bigger budget to county commissioners
Haywood Community College officials have requested an additional $380,000 in county funding this year — all of which would help…
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No changes recommended to how Mission does business
The state has not recommended any changes be made to how Mission hospital does business under its Certificate of Public…
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Eastern Band to retrace portion of Trail of Tears
A retracing of the northern route of the Trail of Tears will be held May 18-26 in a collaboration of…
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Jackson doctors fear underdog status in MedWest venture
When a team of moving men showed up in the surgery suite of MedWest-Harris two years ago and rolled a…
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Caught in the crosshairs: Doctors struggle for footing in a shifting health care landscape
MedWest leaders are struggling to hold a fledgling joint hospital venture together in the wake of recent physician turmoil, but…
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Strapped by budget cuts, Haywood schools suffer from building upkeep backlog
When the maintenance director for Haywood County Schools received news that a transformer at Pisgah High School stopped working last…
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Carolinas affiliation catalyst for docs’ departure
When the Med-West venture was coined two years ago, the premise was an easy sell. Together the hospitals would be…
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Doctors take a stand out of fear for MedWest-Harris’ future
When Dr. Bob Adams walked into a hospital-wide meeting of Jackson County doctors in early January, he believed he had…
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Old Edwards Inn CEO bilked upscale resort in fraud, kickback scheme
The former chief executive officer and general manager of the Old Edwards Inn and Spa in Highlands was recently convicted…
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Fundraising unveiled in down-to-the-wire Congressional race
The litany of Republicans from Western North Carolina running for Congress haven’t taken any cues from their counterparts on the…
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Canton urgent care center holds open house May 2
MedWest-Haywood will hold an open house from 4-6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2, at the newly constructed MedWest Urgent Care…
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Selling Haywood a collective effort
Departing from the normal talks of budget cuts and tightening belts, Haywood County commissioners asked a group of tourism and…
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Soup kitchen to serve double role for farmers
The Community Table, Sylva’s nonprofit soup kitchen for the needy, is within weeks of moving its digs from its cramped…
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Property owners keep asking to be booted out of Maggie’s town limits
The Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen’s split decision to de-annex someone who didn’t want to be in the town limits…
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Swain and Graham settle county line dispute with big bucks on the hook
After two years of lawsuits and two mediations, Swain and Graham counties have finally agreed on where to draw the…
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Interchange construction in Haywood could take three years
The Lowe’s interchange in Haywood County will finally get re-structured but not for a couple more years. N.C. Department of…
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Cullowhee community holds second meeting
Residents and business owners of Cullowhee and Jackson County are invited to attend a community meeting from 5:30-7 p.m. on…
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Tuckasegee bridge to be replaced
A $3.4-million contract to replace the T. Walter Middleton Bridge on N.C. 107 over the Tuckasegee River in Jackson County…
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Two signs to Cherokee after all: Tribe rents billboard
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is taking matters into its own hands in the tug-of-war over the best route…
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Specialty plates to stay on North Carolina highways
The iconic black bear, the parkway’s winding scenic road and the Appalachian Trail’s solitary hiker have gotten a reprieve. A…
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Jackson gas stations on Cherokee’s doorstep now in the catbird seat as alcohol vote nears
Large, walk-in beer coolers are ready and waiting to be stocked at Dwight and Jamie Winchester’s Catamount Travel Center, a…
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Tuscola High School counters rumors that advanced courses have been curtailed
Despite rumors that cuts at Tuscola High School in Waynesville could reduce the number of advanced courses, academically gifted students…
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Dissension among the Jackson medical community spells trouble for MedWest
A group of Jackson County doctors say they want out of the two-year-old partnership with the hospital in Haywood County…
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Haywood County commissioners to host work session
The Haywood County Board of Commissioners will hold a work session at 4 p.m., Thursday, April 19, at the Bethea…
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Sylva man gets seven years for 2008 murders
The last of six people accused of playing a role in the murders of two Swain County residents back in…
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Learn how to sell, serve alcohol
The N.C. ABC Commission is holding a series of free Responsible Alcohol Seller/Server Program classes to educate businesses with alcohol…
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Wayesville finalist in favorite Main Street competition
Go online and vote for Waynesville as your favorite Main Street in the contest “Great Places in North Carolina.” A…
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Nursing scholarship available
The Judy Moore Memorial Scholarship Endowment Committee is accepting scholarship applications for 2012. The scholarship program for nurses was established…
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Franklin sprays ancient Indian mound with weed killer
The use of weed killer to temporarily denude an ancient Indian mound in Franklin has some critics accusing the town…
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Forum to focus on Lake Junaluska’s future as a town or not
As Lake Junaluska weighs whether to become part of the town of Waynesville or form its own town, a public…
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Dusting the mothballs off Sylva’s ‘ghostel’
The shell of a vacant four-story hotel sitting partially finished on Sylva’s main drag for three years is finally going…
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Cherokee voters say ‘no’ to alcohol sales
About two dozen people gathered outside the tribal council house broke into song with the words “Praise God, Praise God,…
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Cherokee teens sue in class action for money lost in stock market crash
A class action complaint aims to hold the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians responsible for money lost when the stock…
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Prevent child abuse
For the month of April K.A.R.E in Haywood County, Kids Advocacy Resource Effort, will join thousands of communities throughout North…
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Seniors, start training
Seniors around the county are gearing up for the 2012 Haywood County Senior Games from May 7-22. For just $10,…
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Walk in her shoes
The fourth-annual “Take A Walk In Her Shoes” sexual assault awareness event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30…
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Lawmakers hesitant to meddle in turf war between Mission, smaller hospitals
A movement to rein in the dominance of Mission Hospital in Western North Carolina’s healthcare landscape has hit a critical…
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