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Home prices leave
 many hopeless Wednesday, June 09, 2021 To the Editor: I am 60 years old, legally blind and homeless for 11 months now in Haywood County. I am not a drug addict nor someone with a criminal record. I have lived here for many years and love it. I sold my home last year, put my money in the bank and started looking for a smaller house for me and my dog. My search was looking positive until I applied for a loan and was denied due to my monthly income of s...

Black Balsam Knob in the Pisgah National Forest is one of seven spots nationwide that Sierra Designs ambassadors have chosen to celebrate National Tra...

Wednesday, June 09, 2021 Every month, the Tribal Council agenda starts the same way. The chairman calls the meeting to order, and then there’s a prayer, a roll call, a call for requested changes to the agenda and a unanimous vote to deem the ever-present list of new proposed ordinances read and tabled. That’s not how the June 1 meeting went.  “Mr. Chairman, I know it’s out of the ordinary, but I’d like to deem items two through nine read and tabled,” said Vice Chairman...

Don’t trust 
the oligarchs Wednesday, June 09, 2021 To the Editor: According to my eighth-grade American history teacher, Jan McCracken (RIP), one-third of the American colonists fought for the revolution, one-third fought against it, and one-third sat it out. History is a useful lens to understand what is going on in our country and the world today.  The billionaires and those doing OK in our economic system don’t want change. The survival of the fittest mentalit...

Friends of the Smokies will host the third annual Smokies Cup Tournament at the Biltmore Sporting Clays Club Sept. 16-17 this year.  Registration...

To the Editor: As an occasional writer of letters to the editor I sometimes receive feedback, mostly positive but sometimes negative or dismissive. Mo...

The pool at Lake Junaluska is now open for the season, and 2021 passes offering pool admission and special discounts at Lake Junaluska though Labor Da...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash was named the winner of the 2021 Agency Leadership Award from the Public Lands Allianc...

The most recent round of Pigeon River Fund Grant Awards distributed through the Community Foundation for Western North Carolina will provide $236,250...

The Folk Art Center in Asheville has opened its Main Gallery exhibition showcasing the Graduating Class of 2021 of Haywood Community College’s Profess...