Need some farm equipment? Here’s your chance
 

Need some farm equipment? Here’s your chance

A farm equipment auction will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds on…
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Recycle that old bike for a good cause
 

Recycle that old bike for a good cause

Bryson City Bicycles is in search of gently used bikes to be tuned and donated to kids in need. The…
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HCC takes first at Woodsmen’s meet
 

HCC takes first at Woodsmen’s meet

The Haywood Community College Timbersports Team finished in first place in the John G. Palmer Intercollegiate Woodsmen’s Meet and Forest…
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See historic farmhouse and silo on guided hike
 

See historic farmhouse and silo on guided hike

A nature walk by The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee will be held Friday, Oct. 21, at Tessentee Bottomland…
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Final lecture in Rickman Store series
 

Final lecture in Rickman Store series

The Wilderness Society’s Brent Martin will lead the final presentation in the “Gardening for Wildlife” series of lectures at 7…
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Take a hike in the Waynesville Watershed
 

Take a hike in the Waynesville Watershed

Come hike the 8,600-acre Waynesville Watershed property at the head of Allens Creek in Haywood County, which is normally off-limits…
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Cooking with wild game at the Pisgah Center
 

Cooking with wild game at the Pisgah Center

Learn how to cook wild game outdoors in a class from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Oct. 22 at…
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Kids hike the Appalachian Trail as part of school work
 

Kids hike the Appalachian Trail as part of school work

Earlier this month the fourth-grade classes from Cartoogechaye Elementary School hiked 4 miles on the Appalachian Trail from Wayah Crest…
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Close encounters of the bear kind
 

Close encounters of the bear kind

The battle has been an epic one, but Wolfgang Restaurant in Highlands might have finally gotten the best of a…
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WCU group completes fundraising relay run in record time
 

WCU group completes fundraising relay run in record time

Western Carolina University faculty and students from the athletic training program finished the fourth annual Mountain Jug Run for Research…
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Homage to Mariah
 

Homage to Mariah

“Mariah blows the stars around And sends the clouds a’flyin’ Mariah makes the mountains sound Like folks were up there…
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Forget the birdfeeders and dog bowls, this bear went straight for the kitchen cupboard
 

Forget the birdfeeders and dog bowls, this bear went straight for the kitchen cupboard

Steve Hewitt of the Villages of Plott Creek in Haywood County already has a pretty good idea about the concept…
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Fishers to converge on reservation for prizes
 

Fishers to converge on reservation for prizes

Time to get those lines wet, via the Rumble in the Rhododendron in Cherokee coming up Oct. 21-23. The cost…
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Learn fly-fishing basics from an expert
 

Learn fly-fishing basics from an expert

Fly fishermen are passing on their craft with a series of how-to classes in Sylva. Members of the Tuckaseigee Chapter…
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Introduce kids to fly-fishing in Pisgah
 

Introduce kids to fly-fishing in Pisgah

 Kids ages 12 and older can take a free fly-fishing class Oct. 15 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education.…
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Fall color web site
 

Fall color web site

Want to find the best fall color? The U.S. Forest Service of North Carolina has posted a new leaf viewing…
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Goats prove usefulness to Catamounts
 

Goats prove usefulness to Catamounts

An environmentally friendly weed-eradication strategy that has been gaining popularity across the nation made its way to Western Carolina University…
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Where’s the beef?
 

Where’s the beef?

Learn all about beef cattle in two upcoming workshops scheduled for Macon County. The first is designed to teach the…
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Franklin 5K coming to the greenway
 

Franklin 5K coming to the greenway

The Franklin Cross Country team will hold the Grayson Hall Memorial 5K race on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 9 a.m. at…
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Cataloochee scores new school director
 

Cataloochee scores new school director

Cataloochee is welcoming new Ski and Snowboard School Director Mark Rozof, who was a member of the Cataloochee school last…
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Mega trail work party at Tsali this weekend
 

Mega trail work party at Tsali this weekend

Get out your work gloves and head over to Tsali Recreation Area this month (Oct. 15-16) to help work on…
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Taking flight with birds of prey
 

Taking flight with birds of prey

The “Eagle Lady” will be doing a free program with her live birds of prey at the Great Smoky Mountains…
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‘Roosevelt’ headlining in Highlands, Cashiers
 

‘Roosevelt’ headlining in Highlands, Cashiers

A one-man show will portray the life of Theodore Roosevelt, the Conservation President, in two upcoming performances on Friday, Oct.…
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New Wildlife Commission website
 

New Wildlife Commission website

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has launched a new, interactive website at www.ncwildlife.org that features reorganized content, streamlined navigation and…
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Leaf-lookers’ primer
 

Leaf-lookers’ primer

How did it get to be October already? Oh well, it’s here and the deep red sourwoods shinning from the…
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Mud, Cowbells, and Beer: The Cyclocross Passions
 

Mud, Cowbells, and Beer: The Cyclocross Passions

For a good part of the past decade I have spent a lot of time riding and racing my bike.…
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Providing shelter for hikers
 

Providing shelter for hikers

The Nantahala Hiking Club, the Franklin-based Appalachian Trail maintaining club, is building a new Appalachian Trail shelter about half way…
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Enjoy an ancient form of flower arranging
 

Enjoy an ancient form of flower arranging

The unique flower and decorative plant arrangements of Ikebana International will be on display during a special exhibit, part of…
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Lace your shoes for the Bethel half marathon
 

Lace your shoes for the Bethel half marathon

The popular Bethel half marathon and 5K race is set for Saturday, Oct. 8, the 18th version of this event.…
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Founder of WNC Alliance Esther Cunningham dies at 93
 

Founder of WNC Alliance Esther Cunningham dies at 93

The Western North Carolina environmental community recently lost one of its most credible and visible faces with the death of…
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Fall color forecaster tells all
 

Fall color forecaster tells all

Hear this fall’s official leaf forecast, including the why and how of leaf color production, at the Jackson-Swain Master Gardeners’…
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Valentine to sign books
 

Valentine to sign books

A book signing with nature photographer James Valentine, a well-known naturalist, photographer and filmmaker, is set for 5 p.m. to…
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Hiking to celebrate
 

Hiking to celebrate

The Nantahala Hiking Club offered three hikes (Ranger Falls, Appalachian Trail north of Winding Stair Gap, and Bartram Trail) this…
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See John Muir “live” in Waynesville
 

See John Muir “live” in Waynesville

Pull a chair up to the fire and enjoy listening to America’s famed wilderness adventurer, John Muir, a critical player…
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Bear group to talk about camping, hiking in bear country
 

Bear group to talk about camping, hiking in bear country

Learn about hiking and camping in a year when the bear activity is particularly high, forcing the closures of many…
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Photography exhibit open in Asheville
 

Photography exhibit open in Asheville

A juried exhibit of the Carolinas’ Nature Photographers Association “Autumn in the Southern Appalachians” is ongoing through Oct. 24 at…
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Workshops dig in to points of vermicomposting
 

Workshops dig in to points of vermicomposting

Learn all about keeping worms for making compost at two upcoming workshops. The N.C. Cooperative Extension Service and the Jackson/Macon…
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Western icon with ties to Western NC
 

Western icon with ties to Western NC

Acclaimed storyteller and actor Lee Stetson will bring his one-man show on John Muir to Western North Carolina in October.…
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Tour de Franklin to showcase fall’s best
 

Tour de Franklin to showcase fall’s best

Bicyclists from near and far will take to the road for the eighth-annual Tour de Franklin “Halloween Hunard” charity bicycle…
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Hike, bike, paddle, fish, climb: OutdoorAthlon coming to Franklin has it all
 

Hike, bike, paddle, fish, climb: OutdoorAthlon coming to Franklin has it all

Joe and Dawn Johnson of Atlanta might be making another trip to the mountains next weekend after learning about the…
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Grass as a water filter: HCC students research best kinds to use in water gardens
 

Grass as a water filter: HCC students research best kinds to use in water gardens

Haywood Community College students are learning best management practices to reduce stormwater runoff by using the campus itself as laboratory,…
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Paddling Club to hold organizational meeting
 

Paddling Club to hold organizational meeting

A meeting to organize the Smoky Mountain Paddling Club will be held at the meeting room in United Community Bank…
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Celebrate mountain heritage at the ‘Cradle’
 

Celebrate mountain heritage at the ‘Cradle’

Celebrate the heritage of Western North Carolina during the annual Forest Festival Day on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 9 a.m.…
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Testing the waters
 

Testing the waters

The Summit Charter School’s eighth-grade class tested seven water sources commonly used by hikers along the Appalachian Trail in Macon…
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Certain trout waters open next month, under specific rules
 

Certain trout waters open next month, under specific rules

Delayed-harvest trout water rules on 15 Western North Carolina counties start Oct. 1, replacing a different set of regulations on…
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Seed swap taking place in Sylva
 

Seed swap taking place in Sylva

Time to swap those seeds, plants and bulbs at the annual Jackson County Farmers Market exchange scheduled for 9 a.m.…
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Hone those birding skills
 

Hone those birding skills

A guided bird walk sponsored by the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee is set for Friday, Sept. 30, near…
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Monarchs to be monitored by students
 

Monarchs to be monitored by students

For the second year in a row, sixth-grade students from Macon County will find themselves galloping through goldenrod to catch,…
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“Two Special Rocks” program at the Pisgah Center
 

“Two Special Rocks” program at the Pisgah Center

“Two Special Rocks,” a program on how Looking Glass and John Rock were formed, will be held on Oct. 1…
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Hope is a thing with wheels
 

Hope is a thing with wheels

Avid birder and burgeoning cyclist Lena Gallitano has come up with an ambitious plan to combine two of her passions.…
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