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	August 2, 2007 Edition Sylva, NC Volume 82, No. 19

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	Budget includes $46.2 million for WCU Millennial Initiative - Gov. Mike Easley signed a $20.7 billion budget bill Tuesday (July 31) that includes $46.2 million in funding for a new health and gerontological sciences building at Western Carolina University. The 145,000-square-foot facility that will house WCU’s educational and outreach programs in the College of Health and Human Sciences will be the first...

	Schoolwide reunion - Some 600 people gathered Saturday (July 28) at Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Center for the first-ever schoolwide reunion for former students of Sylva Central High, which graduated its last class in 1960. Rose Garrett Hair of Sylva, left, who represented the SCHS Class of 1927, received a floral arrangement from reunion treasurer Joyce Fisher Clayton Lovin (top photo). Hair, the only surviving member...

	Thursday’s heavy rains trigger flooding along Cripple Creek - A heavy rain last Thursday (July 26) caused some flooding along Cripple Creek. According to Emergency Management Coordinator Todd Dillard, dispatchers received calls about the rising waters around 6:30 p.m. “A citizen called our dispatchers because they were afraid another dam had busted up at Balsam Mountain Preserve,” Dillard said. “It was just heavy...

	‘Art After Dark’ - A photo exhibit titled “Exploring Jackson County,” by Sylva Herald photographers Nick Breedlove and Scott Hotaling that includes “Salamander Silhouette,” above and features images from the newspaper’s award-winning magazine “Across the Mountains,” opens Friday, Aug. 3, at the Jackson County Chamber of...

	‘Tax holiday’ on tap for this weekend - With August comes the annual chore of back-to-school shopping, but the General Assembly aims to make it a little easier on family finances with the state’s sixth-annual “tax holiday” this weekend, Friday-Sunday, Aug. 3 through 5. During the tax-free three days, clothing, shoes and school supplies costing less than $100 per item are exempt from sales tax. State approved school supplies include things like binders, bookbags, notebooks, pens, pencils and....



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Shuler backs transfer of Job Corps center to Forest Service - Officials in Washington, D.C., and with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are backing a transfer of the Oconaluftee Job Corps Center to the U.S. Forest Service. The center, which was closed in March, is one of three Job Corps facilities managed by the National Park Service. It is funded by the Department of Labor. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-Waynesville) recently engaged in a conversation on the floor of the House of Representatives....


			Herald editor wins statewide award - One of three statewide awards for reporting on legal issues has been won by this newspaper. Herald Editor Lynn Hotaling won the Media and the Law Award in the non-daily division. The competition was open to all community newspapers in North Carolina. Hotaling’s winning entry is from the Feb. 16, 2006, edition and is titled “Judge Rules for Airport Authority in Suit Against County.” “The article and sidebar provided excellent insight into...



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