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Breaking News: As The Herald went to press at 11:30 a.m. May 12, word came from Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe that Jane Charlotte Jones had filed criminal charges of indecent exposure against dismissed jailer Jeff Burnette. For complete details, see next week's (May 20) edition of The Sylva Herald.
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Charges not filed against accused jailer - No criminal charges will be filed at this time against Jackson County jailer Jeff Burnette, who was dismissed March 26 following indecent exposure allegations. “The women, or at least one of them, who made the allegations would have to testify for there to be a case,” said Jackson County...see note above
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Jackson County inmate dies following head injuries - An inmate who collapsed at the Jackson County Detention Center Sunday (May 9) died the next day at Mission Hospitals in Asheville. Bobby Eugene Wallen Jr., 48, of Coachman Lane, Tuckasegee, died one day after being admitted to the hospital’s neuro-trauma center. According to Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe, Wallen had been in the detention center....
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 Field of dreams - Jackson County officials survey a 10,000-square-foot plot at Mark Watson Park currently under consideration for location of a new county library. The site visit was part of a bus tour county leaders took April 27. County commissioners got a firsthand look at ongoing construction projects at....
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Intruders assault Ensley Street couple - The Sylva Police Department is investigating the assault of two people during a home invasion on Ensley Street last Thursday morning, May 6. Injured in the incident were Jonathan Wilson, a 22-year-old Western Carolina University student, and his girlfriend, Julie Mann, also 22. Wilson was admitted to Mission....
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County files suit over Cashiers library site - In an effort to move ahead with construction of a library addition in Cashiers, county officials last week (May 3) filed suit against a Cashiers couple. At issue is a sales contract signed in November by which Jim Nichols and his wife, Kimberly Diane Nichols, agreed to sell Jackson County 3.5 acres in Cashiers for $1.5 million. The Nichols tract adjoins the library and Southwestern Community College’s Cashiers campus....
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Western’s main campus entrance off N.C. 107 to be closed for five weeks - Western Carolina University’s main entrance at the intersection of N.C. 107 and Centennial Drive will be closed to all traffic for five weeks beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, May 14, as the university begins the road construction phase of its current building boom. The entrance is being closed to allow contractors to relocate a portion of Centennial Drive around Robinson Administration Building. Barricades will be erected on Centennial Drive at its intersection with the access road....
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Six candidates file for seats on school board - Six candidates will be on the ballot for two seats on the Jackson County Board of Education in the July 20 election. When the deadline came Friday, candidates who had filed for the District 1 seat were Mark Brooks, Jarrett Crowe, Jim Hartbarger and Barbara Jones. District 3 candidates are Jay Coward and Thurza McNair. Incumbents Mary Jane Dillard and James Roper are not seeking re-election....
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 Cute kid - Brandy McCardle of Sylva is the first-place winner for the “Cute Kids” category in The Sylva Herald’s annual Mountain Spring photo contest. Judged by Herald Advertising Manager Margo Gray and coordinated by Herald graphic designer Nick Breedlove, this year’s competition generated a record-setting 106 entries. Other category winners are Linda Vinson of Honea Path, S.C., second; and Kayla Sloan of Sylva, third. Additional contest winners are Tracey Grant of Cullowhee....
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Georgia trucker dies in Saturday accident - The driver of a tractor-trailer died as the result of an accident late Saturday morning east of Sylva. Trooper S.K. Bowers of the N.C. Highway Patrol identified the victim as 29-year-old Chadwick Heath Milam of Gillsville, Ga. Milam was traveling west on U.S. 23-74 around 11:45 a.m. when the accident occurred near Crawford Cemetery Road, according to Bowers. The vehicle ran off the right side of the road, struck a guardrail and then slid into an embankment before coming to rest on its top, the trooper said....
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