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 Sylva to celebrate spring with Saturday’s festival - Part hoedown, part crafts fair, part games and contests, Sylva’s annual spring celebration is a day of fun waiting to be enjoyed by residents and visitors alike. The festival, in its eighth year, is dubbed Greening Up the Mountains for the way spring arrives in the Western North Carolina....
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 Pretty in pink - Color from this ornamental cherry spills onto the sidewalk below, infusing Jackson Street with the colors of spring. More seasonal scenes will be visible this weekend in The Sylva Herald’s front windows when entries in the newspaper’s eighth-annual “Mountain Spring” photo contest will be on display in conjunction with Saturday’s day-long downtown Sylva....
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Airport hangar, terminal project to proceed, Authority chairman says - Though a lack of a quorum prevented Jackson County’s recently-restored Airport Authority officers from conducting business Tuesday (April 26), it didn’t stop them from announcing the status of their expansion plans: full speed ahead. Chairman Tom McClure, missing from the Authority since January and restored to his seat April 13 by....
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Developers’ requests for sewer service may tax TWSA capacity - Should requests for sewer service from two Cashiers-area developers be granted, nearly two-thirds of the community’s planned sewer expansion would be spoken for. Blue Ridge Estates LLC has requested a flow of 25,185 gallons per day for a planned development on 13 acres near Hardee’s Restaurant. Roland Pugh of Cashiers Investment Land LLC....
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Webster Baptist Church to celebrate 150 years Sunday - In 1854, 29 people, mostly members of what is now known as Old Savannah Baptist Church, met in the then-newly-constructed courthouse in Webster to form what would become Webster Baptist Church. Unlike so many church splits, these separatists didn’t leave their first church because of a disagreement. “They wanted a church that was closer to the community,” said Jim Cowan, chairman of the Webster church’s....
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Western to present honorary doctorates - Western Carolina University will bestow honorary doctorates on two St. Louis residents and present a major alumni award as the university holds spring commencement exercises Saturday, May 7. Commencement will begin at 2 p.m. in WCU’s Ramsey Center. The ceremony is open to everyone and no tickets are required for admission. Approximately 840 students are candidates for undergraduate and graduate degrees, pending final examinations and review. The recipients of honorary doctorates of humane letters, Blanton....
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 Hall of Fame inductees - Inducted into the Jackson County Athletic Hall of Fame during Sunday’s banquet at The Jarrett House were, from left: April Palmer, Craig Brooks and Doug Brooks. See story on page 1B. – Herald photo by Nick Breedlove
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