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Commission seeking small-game award nominations
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is seeking nominees for its annual Lawrence G. Diedrick Small Game Award, given to an…
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Clyde Elementary students leave legacy of water stewardship
Fifth graders at Clyde Elementary school worked with Haywood Waterways Association to stencil storm drains in their school campus parking…
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WATR meeting offers sneak peak of interpretive creek trail in Dillsboro
The Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River will hold its annual summer meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 27,…
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Birding low and high
Too many birders hang their binoculars up and put their field guides back on the shelf after May, fearing the…
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Help needed to clear trails in Panthertown
Recent storms have left debris on and other damage to trails in Panthertown Valley, a national forest recreation area located…
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Bad air days common so far this summer
Feeling a bit stuffy these days? You’re not alone — stagnating weather patterns and excessive heat, coupled with a heavy…
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Rash finishing new book
Western Carolina University faculty member and writer Ron Rash is putting the final touches on his new novel even as…
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Book signing at the Smoky Mountain Firecracker Fest
Local author Barbara Dumas Ballew will be available to sign copies of her novel, George’s Creek to Georgia, July 1…
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A new take on the Paris of the ‘20s
Paris in the 1920s attracted multitudes of American writers and artists. Drawn to France by a sense of adventure, by…
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Celebrate summer with Red, White and Boom
Maggie Valley will be hosting Red, White, and Boom 2011 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds July 1 through July…
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HART calls for actors
The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will hold auditions for its August production of the Noel Coward comedy hit “Hay Fever”…
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Didgeridoo Down Under brings Australian fun
Didgeridoo Down Under will visit the Marianna Black Library at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28. The show is…
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‘Guys and Dolls’ comes to Franklin
“Guys and Dolls,” the Tony award-winning musical, will be performed by the Overlook Players at 7:30 p.m. June 23, 24,…
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Discounted Penland classes for residents
Penland School of Crafts has open spaces in several classes in the third summer session available at half tuition to…
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Kids can recreate Van Gogh at workshop
The Macon County Art Association’s Uptown Gallery, located on Main Street in Franklin, will host an art workshop from 9:30…
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Local artists sought for exhibit
Local artists in Swain and surrounding counties are invited to submit up to four original works for the annual community…
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Sweet Tater Band visits the library
Local bluegrass group The Sweet Tater Band will perform at the Jackson County Public Library Complex at 7 p.m. on…
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Contra comes to The Gateway Club
This month’s Fourth-Sunday contra dance will run from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 26, at The Gateway Club…
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WCU welcomes artists to summer series
The Summer Concert Series at Western Carolina University will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursdays in June and July and…
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Doc Watson to headline festival
The third annual Cashiers Mountain Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday, July 2-3, will feature folk music legend Doc Watson,…
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Contest seeks youth talent
The Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Talent Contest will be held again during the Franklin Folk Festival beginning at 1:30 p.m.…
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Barn dance at the Bascom
The year’s first Summer Barn Dance will begin at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 25, at the Bascom Center for…
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Bring your moves to Waynesville Rec
The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer the XBox 360 Dance Central contest at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June…
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Sylva offers up a taste of culinary treasures
The Taste of Downtown Sylva walking culinary tour will be from 2 p.m. through 5 p.m. Saturday, June 25. Tickets…
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Music and poetry at the Rickman Store
The Friends of the Rickman Store will be hosting a forum for music and poetry at 7 p.m. on June…
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LIFESPAN opens up the world of art to everyone
When asked to paint a picture of a dream vacation she would like to take, 68-year-old Hazel Wells began conjuring…
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Voter ID bill is needed
“The American people are losing confidence in the system and they want electoral reform ....” What American political leader, a…
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Life lessons from the world of beekeeping
The blossoms on the sourwood trees are opening. This is exciting for mountain beekeepers, though in their enthusiasm for the…
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Haywood needs to hold line on taxes
To the Editor: The past few months have been filled with letters to the editors, editorials and presentations to the…
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Tsunami sweeps over North Carolina
To the Editor: The State of North Carolina has been blessed in many ways. One of her blessings, in spite…
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Summer in the mountains: baptisms and clotheslines
“Sowing in the sunshine, sowing in the shadows, we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheets.” — (slight adaptation from…
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Scholarship winners travel to China
Two $500 scholarships have been awarded to Lella Dougherty of Cherokee County Schools and Sarah Bruegger of Jackson County Schools…
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Space still open in theatre camp
Western Carolina University’s Theatre Summer camp has space remaining for campers ages 7 to 17. Registration will run through July…
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Opportunity to help a community member in need
Money and donations of clothing, furniture and other household items are being accepted at the Swain County Sheriff’s Office to…
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Laity conference begins June 30 at Lake Junaluska
The SEJ Laity Conference, a family experience, will be offered June 30 through July 3 at Lake Junaluska Conference and…
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Macon steep-slope ordinance inches forward
Macon County’s commissioners want their planning board, if possible, to finish up work on a steep-slope ordinance by August. Commissioner…
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Strange at best, tacky at worst — library plaque to bear two boards’ names
Jackson County Commissioner Doug Cody said he was as surprised as anyone to learn that his name would be included…
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Former commissioner now former college trustee, too
William Shelton is off the local community college’s board of trustees after the Jackson County Board of Commissioners, in a…
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Jackson commissioner keeps on DOT warpath
Jack Debnam, chairman of the Jackson County Board of Commissioners, called on Sylva leaders to join him in his bid…
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Back taxes on Ghost Town help fund festivals in Maggie
Maggie Valley gave the thumbs up to a 2011-12 budget, voting 4-1 to approve the spending plan at a town…
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Community funding pool to aid nonprofits
Macon County non-profit organizations have until July 30 to apply for grants through the Macon County Community Funding Pool. Organizations…
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Rolling center offers bone testing
MedWest Health System’s osteoporosis bus provides bone density testing each week to women throughout rural Western North Carolina. Osteoporosis causes…
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Sales keep pace with county’s new values
Property in Haywood County is selling 4 percent higher than the new values on the county’s tax books, refuting criticism…
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How right is the reval?
There’s only one way to tell how right — or wrong — Haywood County’s recent property revaluation is. Appraisers attempt…
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Row over property values in Haywood still raging unabated
Haywood County commissioners continue to be dogged by outcries over new property values. Critics are openly deriding commissioners at every…
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New town of Fontana Dam springs up in the middle of nowhere
It doesn’t take long to survey North Carolina’s newest town; perhaps five minutes, tops. There’s the swanky Fontana Village Resort,…
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Developer loses landmark lawsuit over shoddy roads
By most accounts, calling Art Williams a hands-on developer would be a pretty fair description. For decades, Williams was in…
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HAM radio holds on in a high tech world
The term HAM radio doesn’t usually conjure visions of a chic hi-tech world, but usually something closer to, as Al…
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Building districts by the numbers
This year, the math of moving districts will give virtually every western block a shift. Sen. Jim Davis’s, R-Franklin, Senate…
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Redistricting to grow mountain districts
In legislatures around the nation, it’s that time of decade again — time to break out the old redistricting maps…
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