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 SMHS senior is state champ in 100 butterfly - Smoky Mountain's Allie Lewis won the 100-yard butterfly state championship and set a State 3-A Swim Meet record Saturday at N.C. State's Casey Natatorium. Her time of 57.55 earned her not only All-State but also All-American status. "It felt really great,” Lewis said. "All my hard work finally paid....
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 Alan Thornburg appointed to N.C. Court of Appeals - A Jackson County native and Sylva-Webster High School graduate has been appointed to the N.C. Court of Appeals. Gov. Mike Easley last week announced the appointment of Asheville attorney Alan Thornburg to the state appellate court. Thornburg will be sworn in at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, in the fifth-floor courtroom of the Buncombe County Courthouse in Asheville by his father, U.S. District Court Judge Lacy Thornburg....
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 State Supreme Court denies Taylor's appeal - The state's highest court has denied a petition for review brought by U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor, which should end the Eleventh District congressman's effort to recover some $18,000 from Jackson County.With their Feb. 5 refusal to hear Taylor's appeal, N.C. Supreme Court justices upheld a Nov. 4 ruling of the N.C. Court of Appeals....
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 Burr launches Senate campaign - Congressman Richard Burr swung through Dillsboro last Friday (Feb. 13) on the first day of a 38-town, eight-day campaign tour to announce his bid for the U.S. Senate. After representing North Carolina's Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives for the past 10 years, the Republican is running for the Senate seat that will soon be vacated by Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards."This is the first day of a very public campaign,” Burr told a crowd of Republican supporters at the Jarrett House Friday afternoon....
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Area residents speak their mind about removal of Dillsboro Dam - Both opponents and supporters of removing the Dillsboro Dam took advantage of a meeting called last week to share their views with federal power regulators. The meeting was called to consider relicensing the 90-year-old hydroelectric facility. Representatives of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission were at the Justice Center Feb. 10 to take comment on....
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 Sand painting - Tibetan monks will visit Western Carolina University Monday through Thursday, Feb. 23 to 26, to create a mandala sand painting and perform sacred Tibetan music and dance traditions. The mandala, shown above, is an ancient spiritual art form designed to purify and heal the environment and its inhabitants....
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