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Oh, what a tangled web endorsements weave: Candidates head toward election armed with backings of special interest groups
With hundreds of special interest groups and clubs issuing candidate endorsements each election cycle, it can be difficult to keep…
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Military technology firm takes on national defense from Canton
More than a year after winning $5,000 in the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Start-up Competition, Aermor, an…
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In the news
MedWest Health System’s Urgent Care Centers in Sylva, Canton and Waynesville are now open from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.,…
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Let the fall wildflower fruit displays begin
Most wildflower enthusiasts quite naturally hone in on the showy flowering phase of a plant’s life cycle for observation, identification…
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Rooted in the Mountains symposium comes to WCU
The third annual Rooted in the Mountains symposium at Western Carolina University will be held from 10 a.m. to 6:30…
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Help sought in mapping historic settlements
When the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created in the 1930s and 1940s, hundreds of families were forced to…
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Take a volunteer vacation along the A.T.
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s Rocky Top Trail Crew is looking for volunteers to help reconstruct a remote section of the…
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Haywood Master Gardeners to give grants
The Haywood County Master Gardener Volunteer Association is accepting applications for grants for horticultural projects in Haywood County. The deadline…
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Help bring back the Cullowhee lily by planting bulbs
An effort to re-establish the Cullowhee lily on the Western Carolina University campus gets under way this fall with a…
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First whitewater releases hit the Upper Nantahala
Paddlers hungry to sample the newest whitewater run to hit WNC’s rivers will flock to the upper reaches of the…
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NOC serves up guest appreciation festival
Nantahala Outdoor Center will host its end-of-season Guest Appreciation Festival Sept. 28-30. A cornerstone of the annual event is the…
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Competition and culture at Forest Festival Day
Grab your axes. The 17th Annual John G. Palmer Woodmen’s Meet at The Cradle of Forestry in the Pisgah National…
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Dry Falls reopens after extensive rehab
The U.S. Forest Service reopened Dry Falls in the Nantahala National Forest Saturday, Sept. 22. The site has been closed…
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Introduce kids to the joys of mountain biking
Grab the kids and the bikes and head to the trails of Deep Creek outside Bryson City to celebrate ‘Take…
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Learn how to forage for edibles
Wild foods expert Alan Muskat of Asheville will lead a foraging workshop from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday,…
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Birds of prey to swoop into farmers market
Owls, falcons and other birds of prey will make an appearance at the Haywood Historic Farmers Market in Waynesville from…
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Birds and butterflies and flowers, oh my
I had the pleasure of leading nine women from the Great Smoky Mountains Audubon Chapter on an outing along the…
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Galax takes a beating from blackmarket trade
They operate in groups, or sometimes alone, packing duffle bags of the illicit product by foot through the Western North…
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Marianna Black Library celebrates freedom to read
In honor of National Banned Books Week and to celebrate the freedom to read, the Marianna Black Library in Bryson…
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Tweens and teens to meet at library
The “tween” writing group “Write On!” for 8- to 12-year-olds will meet at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 4 at the Jackson…
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A thoughtful examination of love and parenting
A distracted mother off to the store forgets to shut the door from the kitchen to the garage, puts her…
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Life in the GOP fact-free bubble
To the Editor: I just don’t get it. Many Republicans think that Obama is a Kenyan socialist out to destroy the…
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Conservatives take us down the wrong path
To the Editor: Webster’s dictionary defines the following terms as stated below: • Conservative: “of or relating to a philosophy of…
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Jim Davis living in Alice in Wonderland world?
To the Editor: Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, is apparently living in a world in where up is down, less is…
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Don’t legitimize hate and violence
To the Editor: From U.S. media coverage we get the impression that the Muslim world is burning with anti-Western anger over…
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Thanks to the GOP communications chair
To The Editor: In Carol Adams’ reply to my column (“Proud to be an American … sort of,” SMN Sept.…
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Video archives useful in combatting lies
To the Editor: I noticed that last week some of Mitt Romney’s defenders tried to claim that the video from…
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Women’s rights, the unfinished struggle
To the Editor: Throughout America’s history courageous women have struggled to achieve social and political freedom and equality. They have…
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A different kind of freedom in the Middle East
Could you imagine how different it might feel to be an American today if the ideas of individual freedom and…
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Bear zoo charged with violation of Animal Welfare Act
Federal inspectors have upped the ante for a controversial bear zoo on the Cherokee Reservation, this time opening an official…
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Sylva soon to have a taxi man again
A new taxi service will be coming soon to Sylva. The Sylva town board last week unanimously approved a taxicab…
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Cost savings prompt Swain to outsource inmate health care
Swain County is outsourcing medical care for inmates at the county jail to an independent firm that specializes in the…
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News in brief
Haywood County Chamber of Commerce is launching its 2012 Business Academy from 6-8 p.m. Oct. 4 at The Gateway Club…
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Jackson commissioners at odds with task force on tourism overhaul
A tourism task force in Jackson County has spent several months formulating a major overhaul of the county’s tourism agency,…
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Crafting a new day for Maggie Valley
Maggie Valley has hired an outside consultant to help the once-bustling and now-struggling tourist town overcome an ongoing identity crisis.…
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Maggie debates whether to put its eggs in Ghost Town’s basket
As Maggie Valley business owners and leaders look toward the town’s future, it is unclear how large a role town…
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Ghost Town pledges to reopen rides and attractions
Maggie cheered when Ghost Town in the Sky reopened this summer, but with only a small portion of the rides…
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Community bank expands operations
When Old Town Bank opened in 2007, its founders already had plans for building a dream headquarters, but the grand…
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South Main renaissance may be in Waynesville’s cards yet
When Super Walmart opened in Waynesville in 2008, it was viewed as just the beginning of a business boom that…
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No way: Gaining legal access to landlocked tracts can get murky in Western North Carolina
Alice Parker Watty can’t get to her house. The only driveway to her front door crosses her neighbor’s land, and…
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Where state candidates stand: abortion and women’s health
During the past two years, several keystone issues regarding abortion and women’s reproductive health have been debated at the state…
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Reproductive health, abortion battles loom
State lawmakers during the past two years have passed several pieces of legislation centered around the abortion issue — including…
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WestCare wants out of hospital partnership with Haywood
The hospitals in Jackson and Swain counties formally declared last week that they want out of the partnership forged nearly…
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Call for art/writing submissions
Daydreamz Project is partnering with several local entities to display artistic expressions that promote healing of domestic violence, sexual assault…
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Demonstrations at Dogwood Crafters
Craft demonstrations at Dogwood Crafters in Dillsboro this week include Susie Ray, Susan Lingg, Claudia Lampley and Mary Ethel Prater.…
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Art/craft exhibition opens in Highlands
“American Craft Today” opened on Sept. 22 and will run through Dec. 29 in the Bunzl Gallery at The Bascom…
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Flying Cat Studio celebrates a decade
Professional potters Susan Phillips and Velda Davis will hold a special kiln opening and pottery sale from 10 a.m. to…
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Skate Jam rolls into Cherokee
The inaugural “SK8 Jam” will take place at noon Oct. 6 on the SK8 Park in Cherokee, with registration available…
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Georgia historian to deliver talk at WCU
A historian and author from the University of Georgia who specializes in Native American history will speak at 7 p.m.,…
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Scarecrow festival coming to Bryson City
The scarecrows are coming to Bryson City from Oct. 6 through Oct. 20.
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