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Dayco developers want rules relaxed
Developers of a strip shopping complex at the site of the old Dayco factory in Waynesville are asking for several…
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Franklin’s new urban neighborhood plan complete
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Preliminary master plans and architectural designs for Franklin’s new mixed-use, smart growth style development…
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Growth worries prompt Swain to create planning board
Swain County commissioners informally agreed to consider mountainside development regulations at a meeting last Tuesday (July 11) during what amounted…
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Research probes tourists’ interests, spending patterns
Men between the ages of 45 and 65 who visit the 25-county Blue Ridge National Heritage Area are most interested…
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Trash statistics skewed by second-home residents
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Macon County’s trash is a growing problem, says Chris Stahl, director of the Macon…
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Statement from the Concerned Citizens for Responsible Development made at the Swain County commissioners meetings on Tuesday, July 11
The concern of our group is that Swain County appears to have no control of development to inside and outside…
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Catching the Folkmoot Bug: 2006 host band, performers dissolve cultural barriers with song
Ted White, a bass player with Whitewater Bluegrass Company, was warming up backstage at a Folkmoot performance last year when…
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A Celtic slice of France
One of this year’s Folkmoot groups, Bleuniadur, hails from northern France in the region known as Brittany. SMN’s Michael Beadle…
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Gala Preview has a new home
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Folkmoot USA’s Gala Preview will celebrate its first year in its new home at…
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The groups of Folkmoot 2006
Canada – Zephyr Zephyr, a French Canadian dance company from Edmonton, Alberta, in Western Canada was founded in 2002 through…
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The mountains tumultuous past
To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of…
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Oh, the irony of it all
“Sausage is good!?” My 7-year-old son was looking out the window of the van when he blurted the words out…
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Congressmen should weigh in on relicensing
When a room full of elected officials pleaded with a U.S. senator and a congressman last week to step into…
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Groups take stand against logging
The Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project and WNC Alliance are opposing a logging proposal in the vicinity of Looking Glass Rock,…
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Meet the stars
About a million years ago, through a wormhole, while I was still in college and Grumman aluminum was state of…
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Water, water... everywhere?
A rafting and tubing outfitter on the upper Tuckasegee River in Jackson County claims he is being slighted in a…
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Giving art to a community: Elementary, college students collaborate to create a mural for the Webster Family Resource Center
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer A warm mid-morning sun beats down on the back parking lot of the Family…
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Canvas stretchers
Yes, this is another of those pesky “music you may want to check out” articles. The “canvas stretcher” opening refers…
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Hope in a rude world
In the last 40 years, the living waters of American law and politics have flattened into a bog of faction…
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Land-use plan on the rocks: Big box stores angle for immunity
Developers of a proposed big box complex in Waynesville are seeking several exemptions from the town’s land-use plan. Waynesville has…
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How to get a ‘better-than-average’ Wal-Mart
Cedarwood Development is no stranger to big box developments like the one the company is proposing in Waynesville. The company…
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Recommended diversions
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever, by Will Blythe For those who enjoy reading about the rise…
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Franklin voters cast ballots for on-premise alcohol sales
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Franklin voters cast their ballots Tuesday on a referendum on whether to allow malt…
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FERC ruling favors Duke’s proposals
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s final decision on Duke Power’s relicensing applications for its…
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EDC director confident project is of ‘high quality’
A proposed big box development featuring a Home Depot and Super Wal-Mart as anchor stores would bring a $45 million…
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Sylva proposal includes performance area, market space
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer In an effort to heal wounded relationships in the downtown Sylva community, local residents…
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Tuckasegee residents join forces against proposed quarry
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer A group of Jackson County residents has banded together in protest of a proposed…
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Behind the scenes: The logistics of running an international folk festival
By Marian Larson • Contributing Writer So you’ve been to several of the performances, shopped for souvenirs, even hung out…
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Cooper wraps up first year as Folkmoot director
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer The 2006 Folkmoot USA international dance festival marks an important first for new executive…
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Dance festival has gathered a crowd of supporters over the years
By Marian Larson • Contributing Writer Not even a broken limb could keep one die-hard fan from missing a Folkmoot…
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Leading the way: Folkmoot guides are instrumental in making sure group’s visits run smoothly
By Marian Larson • Contributing Writer They are part camp counselor, part dorm parent, and part U.N. ambassador. As Folkmoot…
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A perfect time for a visit in the park
Now is the perfect time to plan a mountain getaway excursion in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. One of…
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I hear the mountains calling
Even though she’s an Indiana girl who had only seen the ocean once before we met, there is something about…
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Lottery’s proceeds unfairly flowing east
The effort to change the lottery funding formula so that counties in Western North Carolina get their fair share of…
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Franklin athlete chosen for US Team
Dave Linn, a triathlete from Franklin, has been chosen for the United States triathlon team going to the World Championships…
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The specter of litigation
A federal judge in Arkansas halted on Thursday, July 20, an ambitious Army Corps of Engineers plan to pump water…
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Watching for what’s in the water
By Michael Beadle It’s mid-morning at Cartoogechaye Creek just below the Macon County Recreation Park’s tennis courts in Franklin. Bill…
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Hot summer songsters
No, it’s not another reality TV series, and there’s no need to call in and vote for your favorite. But…
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My Chattooga?
Controversy over a paddling ban on the upper Chattooga River attracted more than 125 people to a public meeting in…
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USDA rabies vaccination targets raccoons
Tasty, fish flavored morsels will be dropped from overhead aircraft along the North Carolina-Tennessee line in Haywood and Swain counties…
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Canton’s historic Colonial Theatre opens once again
By Michael Beadle Phil Smathers still vividly recalls those Saturdays as a kid when 25 cents bought a hot dog,…
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A stripped-down, heartfelt message from Kate Campbell
By Chris Cooper Kate Campbell’s roots in southern storytelling and musical tradition run deep. Her earlier albums, specifically Songs From…
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Recommended diversions
Books by Larry Brown It’s probably a prejudice on my part, but it seems to me there are more good…
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150 show up to oppose Tuckasegee quarry
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Opposition to a proposed rock quarry near the intersection of N.C. 107 and N.C.…
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The birth of a Haywood County institution: Negotiations for the Champion Fibre Mill and Peter G. Thomson’s Labor Day Legacy
By Patrick Willis • Guest Writer Just more than 100 years ago, Canton welcomed a man from Ohio who would…
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Canton celebrates 100 years as a town that works
Labor Day festivities start early this year in Canton. In commemoration of its 100th Labor Day celebration — believed to…
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Election official concerned about voters being unduly influenced
The Swain County Board of Commissioners heard concerns from a county election board member last week over the adequacy of…
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Franklin OK’s alcohol sales
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer The Franklin Board of Elections went to work Tuesday morning (Aug. 1) to certify…
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