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 Celebrating Dr. Seuss - Cat in the Hat and Sam I Am entertain Cullowhee Valley kindergarten students Adolfo Colex, left, and Emma Luginbuhl during the Dr. Seuss birthday celebration Tuesday, March 2, at the Family Resource Center. In addition to the popular book characters, volunteers like retired English teacher Nancy Coward....
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Meth is 'alarming problem,' in WNC law officers say - It came here from the West Coast – from truckers trying to stay awake on long hauls and from motorcycle gangs. Now crystal methamphetamine is an alarming problem in Western North Carolina, according to law enforcement officers. "We know it's an increasing concern on our campus....
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 Photos wanted for annual contest - Delicate flowers, budding trees, children and pets in the yard for the first time in months... The Sylva Herald wants to see your vision of spring. Readers are invited to submit photos in the paper's seventh annual "Mountain Spring" photography contest. Some of the best photos – including those chosen first-, second- and third-place winners – will be displayed during Sylva's "Greening Up....
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Jones loses law license in wake of conviction, charges - A veteran Sylva attorney has lost his license to practice law in North Carolina. Tom Jones, 60, a former attorney for Jackson County, former member of the county Board of Elections and former president of the Jackson County Bar Association, was disbarred last month by the Disciplinary Hearing Committee of the North Carolina State Bar. The committee's order was based on Jones' April 2003 conviction on federal bank fraud charges and additional October federal and state charges of money laundering and....
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 Snow closes schools, offices - For the second time this winter, a major storm that dumped snow on North Carolina's Piedmont left Jackson County relatively unaffected. Snowfall last Thursday (Feb. 26) ranged from 1-2 inches in Sylva to about 4 inches in Cashiers, Balsam and Soco, said N.C. Department of Transportation engineer Jonathan Woodard. Snow blanketed daffodils on South River Road near Webster (left), while children in Sylva scraped up barely enough....
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Sylva Herald announces affiliation with Newspapers in Education - The legendary Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, once said that a newspaper should be "the schoolmaster of the people." With that in mind, The Sylva Herald management decided to stand behind that commitment by linking the newspaper to the national Newspapers in Education program, and timed the affiliation to coincide with Newspapers in Education....
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 Fernandez is finalist for 'Principal of Year' - It's awfully hard to get Principal Wanda Fernandez to stop talking about Scotts Creek Elementary School. When giving a tour of the building, she can always find another hallway to show off, another teacher to praise, or another art project to admire. "If our students and staff didn't do all the wonderful things they do, I wouldn't have anything to show you," she explained. "Everything wonderful you see is really because of them." Fernandez uses that same rationale to explain her recent showing as finalist in the N.C. Western Region Principal of the Year competition. After being selected....
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