• A Goat Field Day was held at the Macon County Fairgrounds, where visitors were taught milking and essential goat care while enjoying the animals and attractions. • The Kudzu Players, a theater group ...

On Aug. 3, in cooperation with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the North Shore Cemetery Association will host a decoration for the Cable Branch Cemetery. The first boat shuttle ...

Connie Molland, Rotary District 7670 Governor for WNC; local metal artist David Burress; blacksmith Brock Martin; and Nancy McConnell, Immediate Past Secretary of the Rotary Club of Sylva, ...

THE 49TH HASKETT REUNION will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 19 at the Webster Baptist Church Fellowship Room, with a pot luck lunch at noon. Hasketts are descendants ...

Today, we will be discussing a somewhat sticky subject – thistles. Thistles have been largely relegated into the noxious weed ...

The Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation has announced the start of its 2025 LIFT Grant cycle. The Health Foundation’s LIFT Grants will support and fund programs focusing on one or more ...

Elders was a three-term county commissioner, serving from 1994 to 1998 and again from 2010 to 2018.

Hunter Lee Ensley, 20, of Morganton, North Carolina was a student at Duke University. He was born in Albany, New York and grew up in Morganton.

Then as now, I’d have been shocked to see a letter from congressional representative to constituent that was anything other than respectful, helpful, even cloying. But 250 years ago this week, North ...

Billy Ray enjoyed bowling, fishing, drag racing, hunting ginseng and spending time with his family and friends. He is preceded in death by his beloved wife of 60 years, Patricia Ann Lewis Jones; and ...

Turtles and tortoises represent some of the last survivors of the world’s long past. These are some of the most ancient living creatures on earth and have remained relatively unchanged by evolution ...

As the days get longer and the weather warms, Jackson County’s residents are looking forward to spending more time outside – whether it’s at a picnic, a ball game or a leisurely stroll through the ...