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McMahan to be next commissioners’ chairman - The only announced candidate for Jackson County commissioners’ chairman was the only nominee and was elected to the post Tuesday (March 22) by acclamation. Brian McMahan, who until minutes after his election was commissioner from District 2, was scheduled to be sworn in during a....
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 Construction closes Main Street - N.C. DOT personnel continue work on Main Street early Wednesday morning to replace a drainage culvert in front of The Sylva Herald office. The construction closed Sylva’s principal traffic artery at 6 p.m. March 22 and it remained closed at press time....
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County officials table range moratorium - As tempers flared over a proposal to build a shooting range on Tilley Creek, county commissioners voted Monday (March 21) to put the issue off at least one more week. The Tilley Creek matter was first raised at the commissioners’ March 7 meeting by Tilley Creek resident Perry Eury. Eury asked commissioners to consider placing a one-year moratorium on all....
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Herald offices to observe Good Friday holiday - The Sylva Herald newspaper and printing plant offices will be closed on Good Friday, March 25. Deadlines for the Thursday, March 31, edition will remain Monday, March 28, at noon for all news submissions except society, and Tuesday, March 29, at noon for both display and classified advertising. The March 31society news deadline is today (Thursday) at noon.
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County’s churches announce Easter services - Churches throughout Jackson County have announced special Easter services. Those received by press time include: Thursday, March 24 Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church will hold a Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m. Participants will remember events that preceded Christ’s crucifixion. Scotts Creek Baptist Church will hold a Maundy Thursday communion service at 7 p.m. to commemorate Jesus’ Last Supper. Friday, March 25....
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 Hands of time get new spin - Restoration work continues on the old Jackson County Courthouse. Most recently the clock on the cupola has been restored to working order. Soon-to-be-completed upgrades includes fixing exterior lighting and adding the word “Jackson” before “County Court House” on the front of the building, said county Manager Ken Westmoreland. The letters should be completed soon, Westmoreland said. – Herald photo by Derek Hodges
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DSS worker jailed, charged with molesting two children - A county social worker remains behind bars on multiple counts of sex offenses against children. Brian Keith Linkous, 38, of Sylva, who is originally from Georgia, was arrested Friday (March 18) and accused of molesting two children, a 9-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, said Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe. The young victims are not children Linkous encountered in the course of his job as a Department of....
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Autopsy reveals heart attack killed inmate - An inmate held at the Jackson County Detention Center died Monday night (March 21) as the result of a heart attack, Sheriff Jimmy Ashe said Tuesday. Richard Dale Wood, 39, of Dillsboro, was pronounced dead at Harris Regional Hospital around 10:30 p.m., Ashe said. Wood, who was jailed March 1 for failure to pay child support, was on work release and had worked all day Monday, Ashe said. He returned to the....
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