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BREAKING NEWS! Delay in flu shot shipment forces health officials to postpone clinic
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 Finally fall - Fall color arrived in Jackson County this week, wrapping the hillsides in red, orange and gold. This sugar maple by Carl Queen’s house on Skyland Drive sported exceptionally brilliant foliage Tuesday (Nov. 1), and nice color has also been reported along North and South River roads. This year’s fall show was predicted to be....
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Municipal elections set for Tuesday in Jackson County - Voters in Jackson County’s four municipalities will go to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 8, to elect mayors and town board members. Dillsboro voters will also cast ballots on referendums allowing the on-premises sale of malt beverages and unfortified wine. Polls will be open from....
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 Methodist mission - Sylva First United Methodist Church Pastor Paul Christy, right, helps Samir Salihovic, top left, raise the frame of a barn for Salihovic’s family during a mission trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina. The mission team, which included Methodists from Sylva and Cullowhee, spent 16 days in the country, where they built barns and donated cows to....
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Plans for landfill gas recovery project are discussed - Dillsboro officials, community members, and project leaders in the county’s landfill gas recovery project held a series of meeting this week to begin planning the new facilities. “This is a real huge opportunity for us,” project coordinator Timm Muth said. “The sky’s sort of the limit at this point.” The project involves drilling wells, not to find water, but to capture methane....
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 Saturday’s ‘Bingo for Babies’ is March of Dimes fund-raiser - For Cindy Shuler, helping premature babies is more than a worthy cause; it’s personal. She knows firsthand how March of Dimes money helps babies. Shuler is the mother of a premature child, but it was not until she participated in WalkAmerica in 2000 that she made the connection. “When I heard Joe Smith talk that day, I told my niece who was walking with me ‘They helped Hope, and I didn’t know....
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Newspaper announces Christmas photo contest - Get out your cameras and scrapbooks – the next Sylva Herald photo contest is all about children and Christmas. “A Child’s Christmas,” the newspaper’s inaugural Christmas photo contest, is open to anyone with a connection to Jackson County and photographs from any year. Submitted pictures can be of any size, and may be either black-and-white or color, and they can be either film....
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