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SMHS graduate named senior advisor to Tom Ridge - Though it’s been more than 14 years since Dan Ostergaard sat in a Jackson County classroom, he’s still a standout in the memories of his former teachers and classmates. Ostergaard, a 1990 graduate of Smoky Mountain High who attended elementary school at Qualla and Smokey Mountain, was named to a top-level position in the Department of Homeland Security two weeks ago. His success surprises no one who knew him in school....
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 Talking Trees Trout Derby - Sponsored by Cherokee Tribal Marketing and Promotions, the Talking Trees Trout Derby on the Oconaluftee Island Park Saturday (Aug. 7) drew more than 2,000 kids, age 11 and under. All children received free T-shirts, hats, fishing poles and meals and many were lucky enough to also....
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Sylva leaders OK fire training facility - The Fisher Creek watershed was a hot topic during Sylva’s Aug. 5 town board meeting. After a Western Carolina University graduate student petitioned town leaders to lease the former water treatment plant on the property so he can set up a bottled water business, board members gave the fire department the go-ahead to build a training facility above the site’s upper storage pond....
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Runoff is Tuesday for state superintendent - North Carolina Democrats will go to the polls Tuesday to choose a nominee for state superintendent of public instruction. The race is the only statewide election on the ballot for the runoff, and election officials are....
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 Cemetery cleanup - An inmate from the Haywood County Department of Corrections works Monday (Aug. 9) clearing brush at the old Jackson County Home Cemetery. Abandoned for years, the cemetery has been in the news lately as Alvin Frady spearheads an effort to preserve and protect the site. When Frady asked commissioners Tuesday (Aug. 10) to sell the site to him and others who would maintain it as a historical site, Commissioners’ Chairman Stacy Buchanan told him that commissioners had previously....
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Junkyard ordinance remains unchanged - By a 3-2 vote, county leaders decided Tuesday ( Aug. 10) that they will not revisit the provisions of a 2002 ordinance that regulates junkyards and other industries like asphalt plants. The question has been a topic of discussion since Jackson County commissioners learned that Cullowhee businessman Leo Webb intended....
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 Rotary to dedicate courtyard - Smoky Mountain High history teachers Jake Buchanan, left, and Larry Crawford walk through the school’s new courtyard during lunch period on the first day of school. The attractive outdoor space, constructed as part of the new cafeteria project completed last year, was landscaped by the Sylva Rotary Club with help from former horticulture teacher Nikki Toedtman and students in her classes last year....
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