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They say hindsight is 2020 and that is definitely true as we’re all eager to put this disaster of a year in the dumpster and light it on fire.  While many of us remember way back in January feeling like 2020 would be our year — we just couldn’t predict it would be our year of high unemployment, isolation, fear, sickness and uncertainties.  All we can hope for now is that 2021 will bring an end to this pandemic and that we’ve all learned some hard lessons we can take along with us in this uncertain future.  But before we move on, The Smoky Mountain News once again takes a look back...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: North Carolina is just beginning to see the impact the Thanksgiving holiday may have had on the state's coronavirus numbers. In a press conference Tuesday, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen said that she believes the numbers the state has seen thus far are just the beginning. It is likely the increase in COVID-19 cases reported over the last week reflect those that went to Thanksgiving gatherings already sick. Throughout the next week, the state's numbers will start to reflect those tha...

It took just one round of voting for the Haywood County Republican Party to select Jennifer Best as the next county commissioner. The Canton cattle producer and Farm Bureau insurance salesperson came in a close third in the 2020 GOP commissioner primary, and handily distinguished herself in a field of seven candidates vying to replace outgoing Commissioner Mark Pless. “It’s been 15 long months,” Best said, noting even after she failed to become the GOP nominee this spring, individuals on a regular basis would ask if she would run again and expressed support. “I felt I had ...