November 16, 2006
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Sylva, NC
Volume 81, No. 34

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Tribe, SCC join forces to create Indian arts institute - The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Monday (Nov. 13) created a new school – the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts, which will offer an Associate in Fine Arts program through an agreement with Southwestern Community College. Plans for the new....

SMHS variety show - Adrienne Graves, left, and Ashton Forrest practice a dance number for next week’s Smoky Mountain High School choral department variety show as Lee Culler watches. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 21, at the Southwestern Community College auditorium. Cost is $5 for students, children and adults, with tickets available at the door beginning at 6:30 p.m. The program will include singing, dancing and comedy acts along with performances by the SMHS Show Choir....

Book fair to raise funds for new library - Local book lovers are set for an early Christmas gift when the third-annual Great Smoky Mountain Book Fair comes to Sylva United Methodist Church’s Christian Life Center this Saturday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A joint project of the Friends of the Jackson County Main Library, Western Carolina University’s Honors College and City Lights Bookstore, the fair is a fund-raiser for the new Jackson County Public Library. Though the more than 50 authors in....

Honoring veterans - Throughout Jackson County, residents took time to honor veterans for Veterans Day. Scotts Creek Elementary eighth-graders Charles Brooks, Hope Shuler, Robert Williams and Hunter Owen hung the names of the more than 1,000 Jackson County veterans in a display outside the school (below). The names were on display through Friday afternoon (Nov. 10). Sylva Vice Mayor Maurice Moody....

Idea of moving library to SCC surfaces again - An idea thought dead since 2003 surfaced again Monday (Nov. 13) during a meeting of the Jackson County Library Board. Officials discussed the possibility that incoming county commissioners, who will be sworn in Monday, Dec. 4, might resurrect a plan to move the Jackson County Public Library to the campus of Southwestern Community College. There it would act as....

Herald to close for holiday; early deadlines in effect - The Sylva Herald will publish a day early next week due to the Nov. 23 Thanksgiving holiday. Special newspaper publishing deadlines will be in effect. Holiday deadlines will be: Society news – Noon today (Thursday, Nov. 16). All other news – Noon Friday, Nov. 17. Classified, real estate and legal advertising – Noon Friday, Nov. 17. Display advertising – Noon Monday, Nov. 20....

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