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	Feb. 10, 2005 Edition Sylva, NC Volume 79, No. 46

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	Jackson, Macon reach settlement on landfill contract - After months of negotiations, Jackson and Macon county officials this week separately approved a settlement concerning the landfill the two counties agreed in 1995 to share. The agreement, approved Monday night (Feb. 7) by....

	Sylva leaders again reject annexation - After a third failed annexation attempt, Sylva leaders need to sit down and talk. That was the word from town Manager Richard McHargue after Sylva board members last week (Feb. 3) voted against annexing 31 acres along N.C. 116. "After this vote, we need to regroup as to what our objectives are," said....

	Auditor: Some EDC transactions at odds with approvals noted in minutes - Auditor Mitch Crisp of Dixon Hughes told Jackson County leaders Tuesday (Feb. 8) that his firm's audit had uncovered two Economic Development Commission transactions for which documentation was not available and three instances in which transactions....

	Students raise money for tsunami relief - Students at two Jackson County schools have been working to help those affected by the recent tidal waves in the Indian Ocean. Alex Briggs, 12, and Alee Shurina, 11, both sixth-graders at Cullowhee Valley School, launched a schoolwide effort to....



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Sylva's officials to meet twice monthly - Sylva residents can now mark their calendars for not one, but two, town meetings a month. Town leaders voted last week (Feb. 3) to add a morning meeting to their regular schedule. That means they'll gather at Town Hall not only at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month, but also at 10 a.m. on third Thursdays. "It will keep all of us better in tune," said Mayor Brenda Oliver, noting the need for elected leaders to have more time to....


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