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 Good citizen - Sylva’s Phyllis Foxx, second from left, is the recipient of this year’s Duke Energy Citizenship and Service Award. Foxx, co-owner of Sylva Insurance, and a past president of Sylva Partners in Renewal (now Downtown Sylva Association), was nominated by WestCare CEO Mark Leonard, left, and grant-writer Art Ellick, second from right....
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 Haggard named top teacher - Jackson County’s top teacher is a high school music instructor who says she believes in an inclusive classroom where students of all ability levels can feel successful. Smoky Mountain High School music teacher Linda Haggard, this year’s county Teacher of the Year, accepted her award during a recent banquet honoring the seven local school winners. SunTrust Bank sponsors the annual award. Haggard was....
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 Lowe’s opens in Sylva - Lowe’s opened its Sylva store Monday (Aug. 28) with a board-cutting ceremony attended by town and county elected officials. Development of the store’s site, near the intersection of N.C. 107 and N.C. 116, began last September, and construction of the 94,000-square-foot building was completed in July. Participants included, from left....
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Officials ask WCU to restore ‘Camp’ to former school’s name - If county elected officials have their way, Western Carolina University leaders will put the “Camp” back into the name of a former campus building. Commissioners voted unanimously Aug. 17 to send a resolution to the WCU Board of Trustees asking that the former Camp Laboratory School, which is now officially known as the University Outreach Center, once again bear the name of Cordelia....
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Tuckasegee residents unite to fight quarry - When state officials came to Jackson County last week (Aug. 22) to take comment on a proposed Tuckasegee rock quarry, they only heard one side of the story. That’s because every one of the two dozen or so speakers made it clear to the representatives of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources that they did not want a mining operation in their community. State officials, who said at the outset there would be no decision made....
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 Lake levels to be lowered - Wolf Creek Lake, left, and Tanassee Creek Lake, right, will be lowered to 60 feet below full by Oct. 2 to allow major maintenance to be completed at their shared powerhouse. The two small Duke Energy hydroelectric reservoirs are joined by an underground tunnel; water from both lakes travels though a 1.4-mile....
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Herald offices to close for Labor Day - The Sylva Herald offices and printing plant will be closed on Monday, Sept. 4, for Labor Day. Display advertising deadline will remain noon on Tuesday, Sept. 5. Classified and real estate ads, normally due at noon Monday, will need to be received by noon on Friday, Sept. 1. Deadline for society news for the Sept. 7....
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