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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...

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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...

TX San Angelo TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Date Time Progress on New Speedway Racing Ahead Construction on the new Sydney International Speedway has passed the half way point and is on track to be operational by the start of the 2021 racing season. Minister for Sport Natalie Ward and Minister for Transport Andrew Constance today inspected construction at the Eastern Creek site. “This is an exciting and revolutionary addition to motorsport in Sydney which will bring in interstate and overseas competitors, crews and spectators, deliveri...

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...