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Highlands Cashiers Players hosting auditions
Auditions for “The Fox on the Fairway” by the Highlands Cashiers Players will be held at 3 p.m. on June…
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HART to preview musical for REACH fundraiser
The Haywood Regional Arts Theater will preview its next musical production, The Marvelous Wonderettes, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 24,…
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‘Twelfth Night’ comes to Bryson City
Smoky Mountain Community Theatre in Bryson City is hosting “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare at 7:30 p.m., May 25-28. Tickets…
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Concert to benefit children’s programs
A gala concert will be held to benefit the summer program at Pigeon Community Multi-Cultural Development Center at 7 p.m.…
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Mainstreet co-op adds three new artists
Three new artists — Crystal Allen from Canton, Hank Shuler from Franklin and Janice Swanger from Waynesville — will now exhibit…
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Green Energy Park to offer paperweight-making class
Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro is offering a class that will teach students how to create a glass…
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Stecoah Valley Leftovers to host spring concert
The instructors of Stecoah Junior Appalachian Musicians will host a Spring Bluegrass Celebration at Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center on…
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Sheryl Crow hits the stage at Harrah’s
Sheryl Crow will be performing at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center at 7:30 p.m. June 24. Crow has sold 16 million…
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Shady Ladies Quilt Show to debut in Haywood
The Shady Ladies Quilting Group is selling tickets for a chance to win a unique quilt made by the entire…
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Covered up in quilts: Quilting fanatics eagerly await dazzling array coming to WCU
Noreen Gay doesn’t have a moment to spare these days. She’s busily finishing the final stitches of a quilt she…
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The beetles beneath the ground
“Ere the bat hath flown His cloister’d flight … to black Hecate’s summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums…
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Students help build exhibit on historic Cherokee life
Anthropology students at Western Carolina University are experiencing hands-on learning in Clay County through archaeological digs and participation in the…
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New guidebook promotes “family fun”
A new 196-page guidebook titled Family Fun in the Smokies: A Family-friendly Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains by Katy…
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Cycle and camp on three-day trip
A three-day cycling and camping trip around Bryson City is set for Friday, May 18, through Sunday, May 20, under…
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National “bike to work day” ride set for Friday
The second annual “bike to work day” ride in Haywood County will be held beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday,…
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Fishing guide to lead seminar, casting clinic
Nathan Chapman, guide and flyrod builder, will be the speaker at the 7 p.m. June 5 meeting of the Plateau…
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Running seminar to be held at MedWest in Sylva
A free running seminar will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, at MedWest Rehabilitation Services on…
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Mountain bike group meets weekly
The Nantahala Area Sorba (Southern off-road biking association) has started a weekly mountain bike ride 6:15 p.m. every Thursday at…
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Arboretum to host annual rose exhibition
Visitors to The North Carolina Arboretum will be encouraged to stop and smell the roses when the Asheville Blue Ridge…
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Conservancy group celebrates 50,000 protected acres
The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy is celebrating its protection of more than 50,000 acres across Western North Carolina and East…
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Medicinal botany class offered at HCC
An eight-week medicinal botany class will be held at Haywood Community College beginning May 19 through July 14. The class…
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Go birding on the Bartram Trail
An outing along the Bartram Trail near Jones Gap and the nearby Fishhawk Mountains is set for Saturday, May 19.…
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Night hunting of coyotes and feral swine looked at
Hunters might soon be hunting coyote and wild swine at night with a light on private lands. The new regulations…
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Another deadly exotic
Experiments conducted by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the U.S., Canada and Germany strongly suggest that the fungus, Geomyces…
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Bartram Trail: Mystery tract with no heirs provides critical link for long-distance hiking trail
It took more than a decade, a lot of detective work and a protracted legal case to clear the way…
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UNC Asheville to host writing program in Waynesville
Local writers will have the opportunity to hone their skills with UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program summer workshops in…
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Friends of the Library to host annual meeting
Friends of the Haywood Public Library will hold its annual meeting at 7 p.m. on May 24 at First United…
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George R.R. Martin’s world captures readers
Readers, be forewarned. If you willingly enter the fanciful world of George R. R. Martin’s Songs of Ice and Fire:…
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Letter was wonderful declaration of dedication
To the Editor: I thought that the letter by Dr. Laci Jamison (www.smokymountainnews.com/component/k2/item/6931) in the May 2 edition was a…
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Privatizing marriage would settle issue
To the Editor: Statistics claim that the purpose of licensure laws is to protect people and produce quality results. They…
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Amendment One sends wrong message
To the Editor: The passage of Amendment One by a majority of North Carolinians this week adds fuel to a…
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Shouldn’t tolerance go both ways
To the Editor: If you have listened to TV news or seen the national print media since Tuesday, May 8,…
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We still deliver quality health care west of Asheville
By Gwang S. Han • Guest Columnist Simply put, I question if there is a problem with the current system…
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‘Wild West’ chamber drive saddles up
The Haywood County Chamber of Commerce has launched its 2012 membership campaign, which will run through June 14. The campaign…
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Hospice house now open in Haywood
MedWest Health System opened its new $3.4 million inpatient hospice unit in Haywood County, The Homestead, with an open house…
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BizWorks offers merchandising course
Mountain BizWorks will host Merchandising WOW, a new merchandising course, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for three consecutive Wednesdays…
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SCC Employment lab to coach job seekers
Southwestern Community College is offering a free Employability Lab designed to help unemployed people obtain jobs. It will be held…
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Flourish expo embraces women’s well-being
A wide variety of healthcare speakers are headlining the second annual Flourish Women’s Expo put on by MedWest Health System…
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Start-up business grant winners to be announced this week
The Haywood County Chamber of Commerce will host their annual Business Start-Up Competition Luncheon to honor this year’s recipients of…
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WCU to expand DNA sequencing capabilities
Western Carolina University’s Forensic Science Program has acquired two state-of-the-art pieces of DNA sequencing instruments to help it establish a…
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GroWNC inspires neighboring counties to think like a region
Haywood is banding together with Transylvania, Buncombe, Henderson and Madison counties under a project titled GroWNC, designed to get the…
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Cherokee crafts plans for tree-top canopy walk and family adventure park
The next five years could include the construction of an adventure park, a canopy walk and another casino for the…
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Voices of the Smokies to go live in oral project
Recordings made some seven decades ago of nearly 60 men and women who lived in what became the Great Smoky…
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Low-income housing complex proposed in Franklin
A 60-unit affordable housing complex has been proposed in Franklin, but will depend on securing competitive state tax credits for…
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Franklin balks at apology for killing mound grass
Franklin leaders declined last week to offer a formal apology to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for using weed…
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Queen still the winner after canvas in tight House race
A recount is likely in the race for N.C. House of Representatives between two well-known and prominent Waynesville Democrats, Danny…
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Republicans must face off in second primary
When none of the Republican candidates for Congress garnered 40 percent of the votes during the May 8 primary, the…
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Going once, going twice … office building anyone?
Haywood County is looking to off-load a few of its now vacant office buildings and is searching for help to…
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Some in Cullowhee look to zoning in wake of alcohol vote
The advent of alcohol in Cullowhee is fueling efforts to implement some kind of land-use plan to guide growth in…
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WCU selects Angela Brenton for provost position
Angela Laird Brenton, dean of the College of Professional Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been…
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