March 15, 2007
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Sylva, NC
Volume 81, No. 51

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Lady Mustangs win school’s first state basketball title - The journey is complete. The dream is fulfilled. Smoky Mountain’s quest to become women’s state 2-A basketball champions turned into reality at 1:30 p.m. Saturday when the final second ticked off the clock in Chapel Hill’s Dean Smith Center with the scoreboard reading Smoky Mountain 85....

Commissoners OK moratorium on new subdivisions - After weeks of controversy, which was reflected by full-page ads, letters to the editor and an overflow crowd at a Feb. 27 public hearing, local officials last week (March 8) enacted legislation aimed at slowing the pace of development in Jackson County. Prior to the 4-1 vote that put a five-month moratorium on new subdivisions in place, commissioners heard....

Victim’s daughter files suit against REACH - More than six months after the murder of Bonnie Woodring brought national attention to Jackson County, representatives of her estate have filed a wrongful death suit against REACH.Papers on file with the Jackson County Clerk of Court indicate Charlotte attorney Brett Dessler, acting on behalf of Woodring’s daughter Michelle Stojanik, has alleged that negligence on the part of REACH caused Woodring’s death. The suit seeks damages in excess of $75,000 to cover expenses for care, funeral costs, “pain and suffering” and Woodring’s net income. According to the complaint, Dessler claims....

East Fork man dies in Friday motorcycle crash - An East Fork man died Friday from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident south of Sylva. Travis Ashely Deitz, 22, was traveling north (toward Sylva) on U.S. 23/441 on a 2007 Yamaha motorcycle owned by James Ashe of Pumpkintown, according to Sgt. Matt Wike of the N.C. Highway Patrol. The motorcycle went off the roadway on the right side and down an embankment, struck a right of way fence and overturned, throwing Deitz from the motorcycle, Wike said. The accident occurred around....

New category added to Herald’s contest - Painted trillium, delicate apple blossoms, budding trees, children and pets in the yard for the first time in months ... The Sylva Herald wants to see your vision of spring. Readers are invited to submit photos in the paper’s 10th annual “Mountain Spring” photography contest. The best photos – including first-, second- and third-place winners – will be displayed at....

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