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Hurray for a Day of Clay: Dillsboro hosts inaugural Western North Carolina Pottery Festival Nov. 5
By Michael Beadle • Staff Writer As the retail industry gears up for another busy holiday season of sales, some…
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Art for fun and profit: Study finds cultural travelers spend more
A study released earlier this month by the North Carolina Arts Council shows that cultural travelers to the state spend…
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Wild animal sightings I was driving in Francis Cove near Waynesville before sunrise one day last week.
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Planning, affordable housing are issues in Highlands
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Mayor, pick one
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Harvey turns a supernatural eye to modern technology
Something is out of joint in the little fishing village of Bareneed on the coast of Newfoundland. The rules that…
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Smart growth, Main Street are hot issues in Franklin
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Mayor, pick one
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Crowded Dillsboro race includes write-in campaigns
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Mayor, pick one
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Challengers say changes are needed
Mayor running unopposed • Jerry Walker, 69, retired from Blue Ridge Paper Products engineering and maintenance. Part-time security at Blue…
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Sylva to get newcomers on board
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Some might call Sylva’s upcoming town board and mayoral races an election of attrition.
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More than armchair historians
Every regular reader of this column has an interest in this region’s history. But most of us are, more or…
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We are amusing ourselves to death
When I am at home, the TV is usually on. I like the company, and since I am almost deaf,…
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Every effort should be taken to help elk project succeed
The experimental elk reintroduction into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park should be given every chance to succeed. If that…
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To elk or not to elk
By the time this column hits the streets (11/2), the results from two public meetings regarding the Great Smoky Mountains…
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A view from above
Editor’s note: The Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project, a regional environmental group, took the Smoky Mountain News on an aerial tour…
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School systems work on changing the mentality of food intake
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Lunchtime at Smoky Mountain High School is like a swarm of orderly locusts, as…
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Public weighs in on methane project
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Planning for Jackson CountyÕs landfill gas recovery project continued last week with a series…
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Poetic license never hurts a good tale
Accounts of events always vary, especially when one is supposedly factual and one is admittedly fictional. Here's an instance.
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Press, newsgatherers get special powers in U.S.
I'm sure my paranoia was partly flamed by the buzz about the case of the CIA operative whose name was…
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Summer's gone, but not forgotten
By John Beckman • Columnist The summer now seems long gone and autumn is headed in the same direction as…
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The Naturalist's Corner
Endangered Species Act Threatened A California cowboy is trying to hobble the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Congressman Richard Pombo (R-Calif.),…
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All in the Family: Haywood County Arts Council presents Sanders Family Christmas at HCC
By Michael Beadle Journey back to Christmas Eve, December 1941. The United States has just entered World War II after…
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Park or promoter? Parkway looks for high ground in new role of peddling tourism
The Blue Ridge Parkway plans to build a visitor center outside Asheville in coming years that will provide information on…
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Bound Away - a great piece of work
By Chris Cooper Eric Brace writes damn fine songs. His band Last Train Home plays these songs pretty damn well,…
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Schoolhouse Rock Growing up on mindless hours of Saturday morning cartoons, I never knew how much fun parts of speech…
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Christmas reading: Some holiday ideas ranging from Christmas to religion in America
This week letÕs peruse three unrelated books whose only commonality lies in the fact that they were either written by…
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To Russia, with love: HART concludes season with Chekhov's The Three Sisters
By Michael Beadle By the end of the 19th Century, the once powerful Russian aristocracy was crumbling, and playwright Anton…
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Zoro's Field wins state non-fiction prize
Author Thomas Rain Crowe has been selected to receive the 2005 Ragan Old North State Award for his naturalist-based work…
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Cell tower proposal splits White Oak neighbors
Two Cingular cell towers proposed for the White Oak and Panther Creek communities - a rugged and rural part of…
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Community activist faces embezzlement charges
A well-known Waynesville community leader has been charged with embezzling a $15,000 donation made to the Pigeon Community Development Club…
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County declines to consider limits on construction noise
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Jackson County residents will continue to suffer the bang and the clatter of a…
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Dealing with strays a hit or miss affair in Swain
Every Monday morning, Justin Mack roles through the Swain County dispatch office to pick up a list of the week's…
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Exhibit by artist Jesse Wills to benefit home for autistic individuals
Jesse Wills, a local artist who has autism, will present his paintings at an art show at Hardwood Gallery at…
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The Language of Glass: World famous glass artist Joel Philip Myers brings impressive exhibit to WCU Fine Arts Museum
By Michael Beadle On pedestals they stand. Whimsical arrangements of colored glass bottles, leaning, bending to resemble animated statues caught…
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CYHSY makes their own way
By Joe Hooten Popular music is made trendy by sweaty handshakes, neon dollar signs, shady deals, and artificial relationships that…
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Jack Russells I was surprised to discover that Jack Russell terriers bear the name of a 19th century English clergyman…
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Superb acting highlights HART’s ‘Three Sisters’
In The Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov tells audiences that suffering, education and work will lay the foundation for a new…
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Triumph from tragedy: Franklin film student premiers ‘Tragedy of Glady’ to rave reviews nationwide
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer The crowd held its breath, barely shifting in creaky metal chairs as a stunned,…
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Lessons of war: Learning from the Spanish Civil War – the only time in history when Anarchists came to power
By Michael Beadle It’s no secret the “War in Iraq” is not going well. Even the most optimistic reports show…
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Finding wetlands in the most unlikely places
As Mickey Henson waded into a brambly thicket bordering a town park in Sylva, he stopped a few steps in,…
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In Forest Hills, the flip of a coin decides mayoral race
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer The Forest Hills mayoral election came down to the flip of a coin Tuesday…
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Haywood, Maggie Valley chambers reach out to each other
The boards of the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce and Maggie Valley Visitor Center and Convention Bureau met last week…
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Seeing nature through new eyes
When Mickey Henson looks at a creek, he sees a physics equation.
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Macon residents worried about devlopment
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer A long-range study that analyzed perceptions about the mountain landscape among Macon County residents…
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HCC has new president
Dr. Rose Harrell Johnson, currently working for the Virginia Community College system, has been appointed president of Haywood Community College.
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Requiem for a heavyweight
The eastern hemlock has long been one of my favorite trees. Like many people reading this column, my wife, Elizabeth,…
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Contemplating the end of Eden
“At times I think there are no words But these to tell what’s true And there are no truths outside…
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The job’s done, now it’s time to leave
By Lee Shelton • Guest Columnist The U.S. recently incurred — and then quickly exceeded — the 2,000th casualty in…
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Who’s dying in Iraq?
Seventy-five percent of the deaths were active duty and 24.8 percent were National Guard or Reserves. Of these, 67.9 percent…
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