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Lungwort used for making beer, bread
Lungwort is the leaf-like lichen common on tree trunks several feet or more above ground level. It resembles liverwort but…
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Rule will allow tribal members to gather plants on park land
Native Americans will soon be allowed to gather plants on national park land for traditional purposes following the National Park…
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Ginseng lottery open
The lottery is open for permits to harvest one of Western North Carolina’s most valuable plants.
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LEGO masterpieces celebrate the natural world
Nature-inspired LEGO creations will add an extra incentive to hit up the N.C. Arboretum the next few months, with the…
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Sylva teen to compete in national angling competition
A Sylva teen is preparing to prove himself on the national stage of fly-fishing after qualifying for the U.S. Youth…
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Voting contest yields funds for Smokies tower restoration
Clingmans Dome Observation Tower will get a makeover thanks to a $250,000 grant that supporters of the Great Smoky Mountains…
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Tackling the Beast: Prepping for a 60-mile mountain bike challenge isn’t easy
By Jamie Arnold • Contributing writer It’s a 95-degree Sunday afternoon. Most folks are at the lake, or lounging on the…
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The glitterati’s influence not always what it seems
In her novel Under The Influence (William Morrow, 2016, 321 pages, $25.99), Joyce Maynard makes her title do double duty…
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Dogwood Crafters celebrates 40 years
The Dogwood Crafters Cooperative will be celebrating 40 years of creating space for local crafters at 1 p.m. Saturday, July…
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This must be the place
It’s when you know you’re home. Those places and faces, those sights and lights that truly signal the arrival back…
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Between the fingers lies the soul
They all do something with their hands. Meandering around Western North Carolina and greater Southern Appalachia, one thing becomes apparent…
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Tourism entities have same goal, different focus
If a rising tide lifts all boats, it only makes sense for organizations with common goals to work together, but…
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Opportunity for change: Three seats open on Maggie Chamber board
As three members of the Maggie Valley Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors rotate off the board next month,…
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The value of a Maggie chamber membership
Businesses in the valley have varying views on whether being a member of the Maggie Valley Area Chamber of Commerce…
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Tribal Council favors amending deceased man’s will
Cherokee Tribal Council is closer to finalizing a decision to revoke part of a former vice chief’s will, following its…
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Food truck ordinance passed in Cashiers
Cashiers recently completed its own effort to address food trucks with an ordinance approved by the Jackson County Commissioners last…
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Sylva to revisit food truck rules
After seeing the showdown over food truck rules playing out in Waynesville, Sylva is gearing up to take a look…
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Waynesville enters agreement to expand broadband
The lack of high-speed internet in Western North Carolina has been more than just an annoyance to Netflix binge-watchers —…
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Former elections director sentenced for embezzlement
Kimberly Michelle Bishop, the former director of Macon County’s Board of Elections, was recently sentenced to six months in prison…
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After pedestrian fatality, county scrambles for funding
After a June 9 accident that left a man dead and a community grieving, the effort to address a road…
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Maggie distillery gets help from town, sanitary district
On July 11, Dave Angel’s plan to operate a 10,000 square-foot whiskey distillery on 1.7 acres at 3732 Soco Road in…
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Giving up the Ghost: Last respects at Ghost Town in the Sky
Mike Withers loved Ghost Town in the Sky so much that in Spring 2015 at the age of 72, he…
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Vexed by bad luck, sawmill’s would-be savior burned again in lawsuit verdict
A lawsuit over the historic sawmill that burned down at Haywood Community College nearly four years ago was settled last…
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Haywood Halt: NCDOT set to improve interchange
Drivers who use a section of U.S. 74 in Haywood County will be taking a slightly different route starting on…
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Battling the twin evils of gerrymandering and money
By Martin Dyckman • Guest Columnist Most of Europe’s aristocracy didn’t think the infant United States would last a decade, and…
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Doing business with your neighbors
In not every town do the children of doctors and lawyers go to the same schools as the children of…
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We are going to have to all help push the wagons
To the Editor: I recall some 65 years ago when citizens were often complaining about their governments, primarily about their…
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Combination science lab and amusement park
Weightless for two seconds is not a moonwalk but at the top of the Space Shot at Huntsville, Alabama’s (Rocket…
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Remembering the removal: Wayside markers trace the Trail of Tears in WNC
A growing collection of roadside signs has been popping up along rural drives and main thoroughfares in Western North Carolina…
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Falling into the rabbit hole of fiction
For reasons unfathomable to me, I have spent the last two weeks on a fiction-reading jag. Until I was about…
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Discovering the world within yourself
It’s about what you see in mirror, and what you’re willing to acknowledge within the reflection staring right back at…
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Tourism increases in Jackson County
Visitation to Jackson County for the 2015-2016 fiscal year was the highest recorded in the four-year history of the Jackson…
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WCU voices support for tuition reduction plan
Ever since a controversial bill proposing to slash tuition rates at selected University of North Carolina schools popped up in…
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Tuition ‘buy down’ promises future entanglements
As the 2016-17 North Carolina budget came together, a significant part of it — touted by both Democrats and Republicans…
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Couple works to open wedding venue at family farm
Nearly five years ago, Taylor and Preston Gregg stood on top of Chestnut Ridge and recited their wedding vows.
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Food Fight: Anthony’s mad at Waynesville
The Mad Anthony’s food truck debate culminated last week in what will go down in the annals of Waynesville lore…
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Macon applies for mental health assistance grant
Macon County Emergency Management Services hopes to expand an existing health care model to better serve mental health patients in…
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TekTone Sound to expand operations in Macon
With the help of matching grants funds from Macon County, TekTone Sound & Signal Manufacturing Inc. will expand operations at…
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Macon wraps up fiscal year
Macon County commissioners had some last-minute spending decisions to make before heading into the new fiscal year that started July…
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Potential free clinic partnership sparks both enthusiasm and concern
A partnership that could quadruple patient volume and expand medical staffing for the uninsured of Jackson County has been the…
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Current, former Lake Junaluska Singers allege drug abuse, favoritism
The resignation of Lake Junaluska Singers Director Dr. Melodie Galloway comes after one member of the well-known choral group made…
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New rules could change the face of downtown Waynesville
By a 4-1 vote on June 28, the Town of Waynesville finally got around to complying with an Oct. 1,…
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Candidate for Jackson commission alleges wrongdoing
Mickey Luker has been working on a remodel of Caney Fork General Store ever since he purchased the property in…
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Lake Junaluska Singers suspend season, director resigns
Visitors to the Lake Junaluska Singers web page over the past day or so were shocked to see that the…
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Food Fight: Waynesville denies Mad Anthony's request to keep food truck
Revolutionary War hero General “Mad” Anthony Wayne once told George Washington, “Issue the order, Sir, and I will storm the…
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A look at how local governments utilize the web
Having a website used to be an added bonus for local governments, but now it has become a necessity and…
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Governments get graded
Journalists responsible for news gathering in a rugged and mountainous four-county (Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Swain), 2,111-square-mile swath of Western…
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Maggie Valley website biggest bang for the buck
Years ago, the Town of Maggie Valley used to be known as a place where governance didn’t always take place…
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Canton plans to beef up town website
The Town of Canton’s website was the subject of discussion during recent budget hearings, as some questioned the need for…
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