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Mark Brooks, Thurza McNair win school board seats - Businessman Mark Brooks and retired educator Thurza McNair were elected to the Jackson County Board of Education Tuesday. While the election was a primary for most races, the non-partisan voting for school board candidates was final....
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Task force OKs Jackson Plaza as new library site - Jackson Plaza shopping center should be the site of the new county library, a unanimous task force decided last Thursday (July 8). Task force chairman and county Commissioner Joe Cowan, county Commissioners’ Chairman Stacy Buchanan, county Manager Ken Westmoreland....
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 Making a splash - Three and four-year-olds at Webster Child Development Center discover there’s nothing better on a hot July afternoon than a cool romp in the water. Instructors, from left, Heather Taylor and Lynda Messier hooked up a hose and let the children splash around and fill their plastic buckets full of water as a way to beat the summer heat. Local temperatures reached 90 degrees last week. – Herald photo by Rose Hooper
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Local schools make grade on NCLB - “It’s time to celebrate.” With those words Superintendent Sue Nations Monday (July 19) announced that all but one of Jackson County’s seven schools recorded adequate yearly progress according to guidelines set by the federal legislation termed “No Child Left Behind.” Making the grade are....
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 Woodworking manufacturing plant opens in Sylva - With so many manufacturing jobs leaving the country, two young businessmen in Jackson County have joined forces to help reverse that trend. Randy Painter of Locust Creek Woodwork and Charles Stanton of Stanton Architectural Woodwork have opened Skyland Architectural Woodwork Co. on Skyland Drive. The company produces custom wood products, including doors, mantels, stairs, shutters, windows, cabinet doors and molding.
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