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Cherokee enrollment quandary leads to talk of DNA testing
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is talking about moving to DNA testing as a way of verifying the blood…
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Haywood commissioners take heat for planned overhaul of trash and recycling
Haywood County commissioners are fighting opposition on all fronts after a county task force recently recommended major changes to trash…
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Proposed road calls for bridge over N.C. 107 in Jackson
A new road that would traverse the campus of Southwestern Community College and provide a new link between two of…
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The EBCI enrollment audit at a glance
What is the enrollment audit? A review of the nearly 14,000 people on the tribe’s roll to determine whether they…
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New owners take long view on Balsam Mountain Preserve
As one development after another began to bite the dust two years ago, lenders who had bankrolled the mountain building…
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Cataloochee Ranch plants seed for mighty tree to thrive once more
A collaborative effort between The American Chestnut Foundation and the Coker family has put Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley on…
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Grant propels Waynesville skate park, but the price tag is still daunting
Ten-year-old Waynesville resident Zeb Powell has exclusive, 24-7 access to a skate park in town — it’s in his driveway.…
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Jackson County rides out budget storm unscathed
Jackson County Manager Ken Westmoreland said he would deliver a balanced budget with no cuts to services or staff and…
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Plans in hand, but money isn’t for Haywood park
$6,342,044. That’s approximately how much money needs to be raised before Haywood County residents can expect to see a recreation…
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America’s Favorite Journey
The Blue Ridge Parkway unravels gracefully across the landscape, at times suspended from high cliffs and etched into rocky crags,…
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The tannery and the Green Fly
During my first year at Western Carolina Teachers College (now Western Carolina University) in 1953, I managed to offend my…
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Graham to vacate spot on Sylva board, but not until casting vote for next year’s budget
Sylva Commissioner Sarah Graham will step down from the town board at the end of June because her family has…
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Friends of Jackson library finish fundraising miracle with help from federal stimulus money
The Friends of the Jackson County Main Library have completed their remarkable effort to raise $1.6 million to outfit the…
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Downtown Waynesville entertainment venture wins state grant
A downtown Waynesville project that would put a live entertainment venue, a microbrewery and a pizza restaurant together in the…
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Stand up paddling takes off
Okay, so we didn’t cross the Kauai Channel, but last Friday Mark Singleton, executive director of Sylva-based American Whitewater, took…
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Artists join forces through co-op to gain visibility
Steve Lampl paints with acrylics and loves to golf. But last year when he had shoulder surgery, he had to…
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Patchwork Folk & Fabric Festival celebrates Appalachian crafts
The traditions of spinning, weaving, quilting, caning, blacksmithing, sewing, hand stitchery, and other folk arts have survived in the Appalachian…
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The tribe’s audit is bound to cause bitterness
How do you kick out a member of a Native American tribe? The Eastern Band of Cherokee is about to…
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Engineers still honing plan to stabilize remnants of Maggie landslide
Once repair work is complete, a precarious Maggie Valley mountainside destabilized by a major mudslide will be returned to its…
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Angel Medical, Mission consider partnership
Angel Medical Center in Franklin may soon come under the wing of Mission Hospital in Asheville. Smaller, rural hospitals are…
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Weekend fish kill on Jonathan Creek a mystery
The cause of a fish kill on an isolated stretch of Jonathan Creek in Maggie Valley last Saturday is eluding…
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The Naturalist's Corner
Bird Lag Last weekend (5/21-5/23) was a blur of birds, bears and blooms — a combination of work, friends, fellowship…
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Reading Nina Simone’s tragic life
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone, by Nadine Cohodas. Pantheon Books, 2010. 449 pages. The first time I…
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Sylva parking shortage in the eye of the beholder
A parking study of downtown Sylva conducted by a Western Carolina University graduate student has gotten local merchants talking and…
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A place called home
One doesn’t tire of certain places. Even though they inevitably change through the years, they become more than friends. The…
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County cuts to recreation saddle towns with added costs
In the eyes of Canton’s town leaders, the status quo in recreation funding just isn’t cutting it. For years, the…
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A coyote in the yard
Monday morning … 9:15 or so … suddenly the coyote was there … as if from out of nowhere ……
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Screening to feature extreme outdoor footage
Catch the steepest and deepest in high-adrenaline outdoor sport films when Radical Reels Tour comes to Asheville on Monday, Sept.…
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Plant conference brings out all things botanical
Landscape design, botany, horticulture and gardening will be the highlight of “Landscaping and Gardening With Native Plants” conference held in…
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5K set among the fairways of Highlands course
A 5K race will traverse the front nine holes of the Old Edwards Club in Highlands on Saturday, Sept. 11,…
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Rules for guns and game on the Blue Ridge Parkway
With guns now allowed in national parks, red tape faced by hunters crossing the Blue Ridge Parkway en route to…
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HCC Low-Impact Development fast track
A Low Impact Development FastTrack Certification will be held at Haywood Community College on Wednesday, Sept. 15 through Friday, Sept.…
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Program aims to get local produce into Jackson cafeterias
A workshop on bringing local farm produce into the schools will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday,…
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Fox sightings up
Fox sightings in town are on the rise, including residential suburban neighborhoods and they have even been reported on busy…
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WNC birders jolted from summer doldrums
Birders are a restless, impatient lot. From the end of June till the end of August they walk around in…
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Cataloochee Elk deemed a success
Fans of the elk herd in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park would be surprised to learn that until now,…
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WCU Authors Hal Herzog and Anna Fariello at City Lights
Western Carolina University psychology professor Hal Herzog will celebrate his new book, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We…
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Decoration Day authors offer presentation
Alan Jabbour and Karen Singer Jabbour, authors of Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern…
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Choice of victims makes this a disturbing read
Stephen Hunter’s I, Sniper (ISBN 978-1-4165-6515-4, $26) brings to readers once again that intrepid sniper, now old and aching from…
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Kick Off Labor Day weekend with the Porch Music Club
Start your Labor Day weekend with free live music at the Concerts on the Creek series in downtown Sylva. The…
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FPAC anniversary gala features music, drama
Western Carolina University will mark five years of art and entertainment at the Fine and Performing Arts Center with a…
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Grammy-winning artist Brett James to perform benefit concert in Haywood
Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and producer Brett James, along with Ginny McAfee, will perform on Saturday, Sept. 18, at the Haywood…
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WCU presents 2010-11 arts and events series
A string band, an all-male chorus, irreverent sketch comedy and an environmental writer with a question fill the bill for…
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Country singer Corey Smith plays WCU Sept. 9
Modern country artist Corey Smith will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, at Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Regional Activity…
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One-man-band Wild Bill Turner plays free concert Sept. 19
Wild Bill Turner will play the Sunday Series at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19, at the Haywood County Public Library…
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P.A.W.S holds wine tasting, silent auction
The Seventh Annual P.A.W.S. Wine Tasting and Silent Auction — benefitting the only animal welfare organization in Swain County — will…
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood character visits Haywood
David Newell, also known as speedy deliveryman Mr. McFeely from public television’s “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” will appear at the Canton…
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Learn how to knit for free at library
The Smoky Mountain Knitting Guild is offering free “Learn to Knit” classes — for both adults and children — on…
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Fun evening planned for Sylva After Dark
The next Sylva After Dark — held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 3, in downtown Sylva — offers…
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Beach music lined up for Canton’s Labor Day festivities
Canton’s 104th Labor Day Celebration will run from Thursday, Sept. 2, to Monday, Sept. 6, at the Recreation Park. The Band…
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