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Independence Day fireworks to light up Sylva’s sky - Downtown Sylva’s 23rd annual Fourth of July fireworks display will light up the sky Monday night. Sylva police will begin blocking off Main Street around 6 p.m. or when all the parking spaces are filled, said Jeff Carpenter, director of the county’s Recreation and Parks Department, which organizes the event. Food and other vendors will set up shop in parking lots along....
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 Riverbend residents blame Duke Power for recent flooding - A group of local residents, upset by recent flooding that threatened their homes, is pinning the blame for the high water on Duke Power. The utility “mismanages” hydroelectric reservoirs upstream from Cullowhee and Sylva by not drawing lake levels down sufficiently to....
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Herald offices to close for Fourth of July - The Sylva Herald offices and printing plant will be closed on Monday, July 4, in observance of the Independence Day holiday. All news deadlines for the July 7 edition will be noon on Friday, July 1. Display advertising deadline will remain noon on Tuesday, July 5. Classified and real estate ads, normally due at noon....
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County’s ‘preferred’ relicensing plan filed with federal officials - Local officials June 16 filed a document that local leaders say will more adequately compensate Jackson County for Duke Power’s use of public waterways to generate electricity. The proposal is also backed by Macon County’s commissioners and town officials in Webster and Franklin. Both Webster and Macon County held special meetings in May to act....
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 Reviving ancient methods - Several Cherokee potters, including gallery owner Joel Queen, are resurrecting a style of pottery last used more than 250 years ago. Such pots, which are coil-built, shell-tempered and burnished, were used for cooking, serving food and holding water. Some are large enough to hold 20 gallons, and all are modeled after ones used mainly in the Cherokee Overhill towns of East Tennessee. The modern replicas will be part of a traveling show sponsored by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and the Cherokee Preservation Foundation and funded through a grant from the “We the People” project with the National Endowment for the Humanities. The exhibit, titled “Emissaries of....
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Municipal elections filing to begin Friday - Filing for non-partisan municipal general elections will begin Friday, July 1, at noon and will run through Friday, Aug. 5, at the Jackson County Board of Elections. The election will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Residents who are already registered do not need to re-register but those not registered to vote must register or update information by Oct. 14, to be eligible to vote. Registered voters within the towns of Forest Hills, Dillsboro, Sylva and....
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EDC elects officers, proposes bylaw change - Two mayors are the new co-leaders of Jackson County’s Economic Development Commission. Sylva Mayor Brenda Oliver and Dillsboro Mayor Jean Hartbarger will co-chair the multi-government agency charged with promoting economic development for the county. Rounding out the slate of new EDC officers are outgoing Chairman Tom McClure as vice chairman, former Forest Hills Mayor Irene Hooper as secretary and Sylva attorney Jay Coward, treasurer. McClure had asked that he not be considered for the post of chairman....
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