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Dillsboro festival slated for Saturday - This year’s Dillsboro Arts and Heritage Festival, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 10, promises to be bigger than ever. A stage on Church Street will host local performers and 55 artisans and crafters will display wares on Front Street. “The festival’s popularity has increased in recent years thanks....
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 Street’s new look to yield cleaner water - Concrete workers fill in the new “rain garden” near the intersection of Mill and Spring streets last Friday (June 2) as part of a Mill Street renovation project. Set to end this week, the construction also included new sidewalks, curbs and guttering aimed at making the thoroughfare that parallels Main Street more attractive....
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 Patchwork premiere - Particpants in period dress – including Carolyn Wiggins, above, admiring Etheree Chancellor’s “Southern Belle” quilt – added to the charm of Catch the Spirit of Appalachia’s inaugural Patchwork Fabric Festival Saturday at the Jackson County Recreation Complex in Cullowhee. The event had constant foot traffic most of the day, according to coordinator Amy Garza. “The Rec Center gym was....
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High schools schedule commencements - Three local high schools have 182 candidates for graduation during commencement exercises scheduled this week. School principals, Superintendent Sue Nations and Assistant Superintendent Steve Jones will award diplomas to graduates, and three teachers will give commencement addresses. Seniors will walk....
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Annexation on hold as Gillis, Webster continue legal battle - Though Webster officials finalized annexation of Rivercrest subdivision last summer, a February court ruling has placed that action in limbo. Whether Rivercrest will become part of Webster won’t be known until the October outcome of a court case contesting the town’s annexation of about 43....
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Tonight’s session likely to be replay of 2004 FERC hearings - When federal power officials listen to local comments on the recent Draft Environmental Assessment for Duke Energy’s relicensing applications tonight (Thursday), it may seem like “deja vu all over again.” That’s because positions don’t seem to have changed much during the 18 months since....
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Western Builders wins contracts for Rec project, old jail demolition - Sylva’s Western Builders was the low-bidder on two upcoming county projects, earning them a pair of new contracts. Contracts for expansion at the Jackson County Recreation Center in Cullowhee and demolition of the old jail were awarded during county commissioners’ June 5 meeting. The project at the Recreation Center is slated to include doubling the fitness area, as well as the construction....
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 Honorable mention - Margaret Bulloch of Webster took honorable mention in The Sylva Herald’s annual photo contest for this image she captured last year and named “Yellow Ladyslipper.” Newspaper staff members judged this year’s 110-plus entries, and Herald graphic designer Nick Breedlove was contest coordinator. Other winners include Christy Bryson of Fisher Creek, grand prize; Christy Taylor of Whittier, first place; Becky and Eric Hester of Sylva, second; Shannon Slater of Hendersonville, third....
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