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 A building to burn - Sylva Fire Chief Mike Beck, right, and retired firefighter Harold Norman survey the fire department’s recently-completed training facility on Fisher Creek. The two-story modular steel building will allow Sylva’s all-volunteer force to simulate conditions of actual crisis situations, then put out practice fires with water from one of the reservoirs from....
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Alcohol sales may be on Dillsboro’s November ballot - For the first time since early 1998, Dillsboro residents may get the opportunity to decide whether beer and wine will be sold at restaurants in town. The town board voted unanimously at an emergency meeting Monday (April 11) to send a letter to Rep. Phil Haire requesting that the measure be put on the ballot. The letter is required by state law because Dillsboro has fewer....
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 River cleanup - Participants in a previous Tuckaseigee River Cleanup pick up debris along the banks of the river. The daylong event will be Saturday, April 16. Registration forms are available on-line at www.wcu.edu/univcenter/outdoors and can be submitted via fax at 227-7250 or dropped off in person on the first floor of Western’s Hinds University Center. On-site registration will be at 11 a.m. the day....
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Sylva ranks 16th statewide in car crashes - Sylva didn’t quite make the N.C. Department of Transportation’s car-crash top 10, but it came close. The town ranked 16th in the state among towns with populations of 10,000 and under for its number of auto accidents in 2003. The data was collected by N.C. DOT’s Traffic Safety Systems Management Unit, with results reported at the April 7 town board meeting by Police....
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Judge delays ruling on airport lawsuit - The controversy that began with Tom McClure’s Jan. 12 removal from Jackson County’s Airport Authority remains unresolved after a Superior Court Judge last week did not issue a final ruling. Judge Ronald Payne listened and asked questions April 6 as lawyers for both sides argued the merits of their respective positions, but he decided after an hour that he needed more information. Telling both sides to round up all the documents they could to bolster their case, Judge Payne said he would accept the information April 11 during a court session....
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 ‘Tree City’ ceremony to be during festival - This year’s Saturday, April 30, downtown Greening Up the Mountains festival will be the occasion when Sylva officially becomes a “Tree City USA.” The ceremony will be during the busiest part of the all-day event, noon, at the Sylva Partners in Renewal booth on Main Street, according to town Manager Richard McHargue. Mayor Brenda Oliver will accept the certification from the....
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