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New Sylva town manager brings planning background to the table
The Sylva Town Board on Friday voted 3-2 to hire a new town manager with a background in planning. The…
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Heritage you can taste: Cherokee savor apples of their ancestors
Preserving Cherokee heritage goes beyond baskets, blow guns and pow-wows to the very foods and crops once grown and savored…
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Making friends with an injured crow
According to the current Ornithological Union listing, the appropriate non-scientific name for a crow is “common crow.” How apt! Like…
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Recipes, 3/25/09
Cabbage Rolls Stuffed with Corned Beef with Spicy Creole Sauce • 1 large head green cabbage • 1 small onion,…
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Macon eyes steep slope ordinance
The Macon County Planning Board is in the beginning stages of developing an ordinance that would regulate development on steep…
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Precarious boulder prompts creative action by DOT
There’s a big problem looming over a rural Swain County road — literally — and exactly how to solve it…
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Peace Jam provides unique opportunity for students
By Linda McFarland • Guest Columnist Imagine you are an eighth-grade student intent on learning all you can about social…
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Around here, March madness is a religion
March Madness is upon us, and if you or anyone in your house has ever played basketball or perhaps even…
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Water task force gives a glimpse of the future
Sometimes what at first seems utterly ridiculous turns out to be a foreshadowing. It’s happening with water use in this…
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Frank is always provocative and thought-provoking
Criminal Justice in America by Marshall Frank. AuthorHouse, 2008. 276 pages. In Criminal Injustice in America: Essays by a Career…
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Macon runway likely to clear hurdle of cash shortfall
It appears an $853,000 shortfall facing the Macon County airport runway extension may be covered with additional state and federal…
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Landslide highlights, once again, need for new laws
Another landslide occurred a little over a week ago, this one leaving a home teetering on the edge of a…
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Recapturing the magic of Disney‘s “Beauty and the Beast”
By Christi Marsico • Staff Writer Dressed in flip flops and shorts with an aroma of teen spirit in the…
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A complex legacy
William Dudley Pelley by Scott Beckman. Syracuse University Press. 269 pages. The first time I heard the name William Dudley…
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Hiking every last trail in the Smokies, and then some
By Danny Bernstein For the past year, I’ve kept a trail map of the Smokies and the trusted manual Hiking…
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Airport officials hold private meeting about runway
Local, state and federal officials involved in the controversial Macon County Airport runway extension held a private meeting last week.…
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Basil: king of herbs
By Jim Janke Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum) is an incredible herb. Essential for tomato sauces, basil has plenty of other…
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Duke Energy, Jackson argue cases in court
Duke Energy and Jackson County appeared in court Monday (March 16) to argue over permits related to the removal of…
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The Naturalist's Corner: Cornell knows birds – and I don’t
The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is a citizen-science venture conducted under the auspices of Cornell Lab of Ornithology and…
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WCU announces faculty layoffs
Under a budget cut scenario announced last Friday (March 13), 31.75 employees will be laid off from Western Carolina University…
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Uplifted by the flight of birds
Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about birds. I guess I have them on my mind, in part, because the…
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Agencies, departments reeling from county budget cuts
Non-profit agencies and county departments in Haywood County are still reeling from massive budget cuts announced by commissioners last week.…
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Troubled park hopes to get back on feet
The dire state of finances at Maggie Valley Ghost Town in the Sky led the amusement park to file for…
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Jackson ponders solutions to dry wells
A Jackson County task force appointed last fall to develop solutions to water shortages caused by the drought presented its…
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Runway extension faces funding shortfall
The Macon County Airport Authority is short about $853,000 of what it needs to pay for a controversial runway extension,…
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Moonshiner dead in apparent suicide
Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton, 62, was found dead of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in a car near his Parrotsville, Tenn., residence,…
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A tax break for one business is not a plan
Before Haywood County commissioners approve a request to cut property taxes on a business that plans to build an $8…
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Digging up John Williams
Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams. New York Review of Books, 1960 reissued 2007. 274 pages. For those of us who…
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Environmental groups poised to win long battle
Following a prolonged debate, the national forest service wants to close a system of four-wheel drive trails in the Tellico…
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Balsam Range’s mountain mantra
By Christi Marsico • Staff Writer Little girls clacked their clogging shoes while families ate hushpuppies and barbecue in anticipation…
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Another landslide jeopardizes Maggie Valley home
A Maggie Valley man alerted Haywood County officials this week of a landslide posing a risk to his home in…
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What is the Evergreen Foundation?
The Evergreen Foundation was formed by the Smoky Mountain Center for Mental Health in 1977. At that time, state mental…
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Task force aims to fix future traffic snarls
A Jackson County task force has entered the nitty-gritty stage in its quest to fix traffic congestion on N.C. 107…
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The Naturalist's Corner: Bat–tling for survival
A mysterious malady is decimating bat populations across the Northeast and spreading south. The malady, called white-nose syndrome (WNS) because…
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A community can provide real help to those in need
By Marsha Crites • Guest Columnist It occurred to me as I was hiking up my mountain today that one…
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Missed deadline costs HRMC potential revenue
Haywood Regional Medical Center could miss out on as much as $750,000 in revenue over the course of a year…
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First things first: How many cars too many?
The Jackson County transportation task force has spent the past several months signing off on a projected traffic count for…
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Artifacts endangered by airport project
When Neal Hoppe dies he wants his body cremated and his ashes spread over the Macon County Airport. “When I…
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Mr. February, me and my wife make happy
I love dogs. Except during that period in my life when I lived in a seemingly endless series of shoebox…
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The curious habits of birds
The curious lifestyles and distinctive habits one can observe in the bird world are continually fascinating. Some things you can…
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Swain leaders divided on contentious fire station plan
By Julia Merchant • Staff Writer Two Swain County commissioners are having second thoughts about a move to end contracted…
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Board members confused about McDevitt contract
Questions continue to follow former Smoky Mountain Center for Mental Health director Tom McDevitt — who resigned amid scrutiny last…
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Dillsboro ups the ante as a green town
Two electric vehicles will soon be tooling around the town of Dillsboro thanks to a state grant aimed at reducing…
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Celebrating Southern filmmakers: Flicks for thought
By Christi Marsico • Staff Writer Spotlighting filmmakers from Georgia, Louisiana and Florida, Haywood County Arts Council presents the 2nd…
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State could pull contribution to Duke for dam removal
The $400,000 that Duke Energy was expecting to get from the state to help tear down the Dillsboro dam may…
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Give your vegetable garden a head start
By Jim Janke The last frost date is many weeks away, but everyone is anxious to get vegetable seeds and…
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Climbers asked to relinquish cliffs for peregrine falcons
Wildlife biologists are asking rock climbers to avoid known nesting habitats of the peregrine falcon as breeding and nesting season…
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Conservatism with a small “c”
Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Ant-Imperialism by Bill Kauffman. Metropolitan Books, 2008. 304…
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Popeyed pleasures
Many people who spend some time walking the woodland stream banks and other wet areas here in the Smokies region…
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Swain pushes Bryson fire department aside in turf war
Prominently displayed in the window of the Bryson City Fire Department last week were several signs with the same defiant…
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