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 Thrift store is taking shape - Construction continues on the new Harris Regional Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Store site off of Mitchell Road. WestCare Health System officials and volunteers broke ground on the site in September of last year. When finished, the new site will be home to....
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Transportation study group holds first meeting since 2004 - With Jackson County’s Land Development Plan in place, members of the county’s Transportation Task Force are ready to move forward to improve local roads. The group, which is charged with developing a transportation plan for the county, met March 14, for its first meeting since....
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WATR describes pollution in Scotts Creek - That’s the message county commissioners got during their March 20 meeting from Watershed Association of the Tuckaseigee River President Roger Clapp. Clapp, at the meeting to give WATR’s quarterly report, brought good and bad news. While some local waterways are plagued by fecal coliform and sediment, for the most part they are clean, he said. “We’ve got water in this county....
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 There’s still time ... - ... to enter The Sylva Herald’s ninth annual “Mountain Spring” photo contest. Area photographers are invited to enter two of their favorite spring images, like these magnolia buds by award-winning Herald photographer Nick Breedlove. Entries are due by 5 p.m. Thursday, April 13, and will be displayed at The Herald office during May and June. Winners will be announced during the Saturday, April 29, downtown Sylva Greening Up the Mountains festival. For entry blanks and contest rules....
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Sylva OKs plan to tax tracts proportionally - Sylva officials unanimously approved a plan to tax land partially in town limits last during their regular meeting Thursday (March 16). Under the new taxation plan, residents who have portions of their land in town limits will be taxed according to the percentage of property within the borders. For example, for a plot of land of which 12 percent lies in Sylva’s limits, 12 percent of....
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SPD fire truck pull to aid Special Olympics - Sylva police officials are gearing up for its first Fire Truck Pull, a fund-raiser for the North Carolina Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics. The event will take place this Saturday, March 25, in the parking lot of Ryan’s Steakhouse starting at 11 a.m. with team registration and lunch. The goal is to raise $6,000 for Special Olympics programs both locally and statewide. For the year, law enforcement officials are hoping to take in....
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Tuckasegee man dies in Friday night wreck - One person was killed and another remains in critical condition at an Asheville hospital as a result of a two-car accident Friday night on N.C. 107 south of Cullowhee Valley School. Manuel Martinez Morales, 29, of Fred Smith Road, Tuckasegee, died at the scene of the wreck, according to Trooper Brian Parker of the N.C....
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 Energy to burn - Officials have awarded the first contracts for space at the Jackson County Green Energy Park. Commissioners March 9 selected blacksmith Matthew Shirey of Sylva and biodiesel producers Smoky Mountain Biofuels as the first tenants for a planned complex at the site of the former county landfill in Dillsboro. Methane gas is being collected from wells sunk into the old dump and collected in preparation for powering....
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