November 23, 2006
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Sylva, NC
Volume 81, No. 35

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Lt. Gov. Perdue visits SCC, WCU - N.C. Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue (above) speaks during last week’s energy summit at Western Carolina University, where she told those attending that it’s time to put aside partisan differences and focus on energy independence. “We hear too much talk these days about red states and blue states,” Perdue said. “I want to hear more....

Pee Wee champions to lead Tuesday’s Christmas parade - With the holidays right around the corner, it’s once again time for Sylva’s annual Christmas parade. Organized by the Downtown Sylva Association, this year’s parade is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28. The theme will be “The Music and Magic of Christmas.” As in years past, the parade will begin at the Community Service Center and make its way down Skyland Drive. Once the parade reaches the Business 23 intersection at McDonald’s, marchers and floats will turn right and continue to the....

Unsafe trailer park could be condemned - A local mobile home park may soon be torn down unless it is upgraded to meet Sylva’s minimum housing standards. Planning Director Jim Aust, told Sylva town board members at their regular meeting last Thursday (Nov. 16) that Kirby Ensley’s Virna Lisa Mobile Home Park off Hospital Road near the Community Service Center may have to be demolished due to its poor condition. Tenants at the park complained to Aust about the condition of the park on Nov. 6. Those concerns prompted a preliminary investigation....

Western student dies in one-vehicle wreck - A Western Carolina University student was killed in a one-vehicle accident around 12:15 a.m. Sunday (Nov. 19). Kyle Taylor Cashwell, a 19-year-old High Point sophomore majoring in political science, died after his 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee ran off Ledbetter Road and landed in the Tuckaseiege River. Cashwell was traveling south on Ledbetter near Park Place Trailer Park when his SUV went off the left side of the road, overturned down....

Waterrock snowfall - The clouds that dumped up to 2.5 inches of rain on Jackson County last Wednesday night also produced winter landscapes. Area photographer Dave Redman captured this image Thursday morning atop Waterrock Knob, the highest point along the Blue Ridge Parkway between Balsam Gap and its southern terminus near Cherokee.

Newspaper announces Christmas photo gallery - Get out your cameras and scrapbooks – The Sylva Herald plans to feature both nostalgic and current Christmas photos in the newspaper’s annual holiday special section, which will be published Thursday, Dec. 21. “Christmas Old and New,” this year’s readers’ Christmas photo gallery, is open to anyone...

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