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Local officials feel good about Pactiv mill parcel sale in Canton

Apprehension over the fate of a huge industrial parcel in the heart of Canton is now transitioning to cautious optimism.

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Canton mill sold

A press release just issued by the St. Louis-based developer who’s been pursuing the site of the shuttered Pactiv Evergreen paper mill in Canton since last May says he’s successfully acquired the site.

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The essence of power is a towel

Editor’s note: This story originally ran in The Smoky Mountain News in November 2018 following Politics Editor Cory Vaillancourt’s trip to Georgia to meet President Jimmy Carter. The former president died Dec. 29, 2024. There, in Sumter County, Georgia, not far from the Alabama line lies the tiny town of Plains (pop. 784), a most unremarkable place home to a most remarkable man.

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From low to high: Georgia musicians promote hurricane relief in WNC

Sunny sea-level Savannah, Georgia, is known for a lot of things — historic colonial beauty, low country cuisine and a wide-open bar culture that benefits from/endures one of the nation’s few open container laws — but it also has a rich musical legacy that locals are now using to help victims of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina.

Buck the system: Macon recommends changes to Fontana Regional Library agreement

With the 10-year Fontana Regional Library agreement up for review, commissions in all three counties are considering changes to the document.

The unfailing connection of a classic novel

I have always been a fan of old books. There’s a comfort I find in between the pages of a story written long ago, a sort of escape from my modern-day life.

This must be the place: ‘The universe begins immediately to your left’

It was an otherwise quiet Tuesday evening when my girlfriend started in on me once again that it was high time to get rid of the old couch in our apartment in downtown Waynesville. By last count, it was probably the fifth or sixth time she’d said that this year.

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Outdoors

Word from the Smokies: Volunteer roles critical to park operations

After years of vacationing in the Smokies, Scott and Jayne Young had no trouble deciding where they wanted to retire. In 2016, they sold their lakeside home in Ohio and moved to Gatlinburg. Read More

Planning board opposes flood plain ordinance chang...

In a turn of events for the volunteers and members...

Dozens of flood reduction projects to launch in 20...

With about 280 projects approved across the state,...

Lake Junaluska pickleball courts completed...

The pickleball courts renovations at Lake Junalusk...

Hike Panthertown with Jackson County Rec...

The Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department...

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