Breaking News: N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources denies mining permit for proposed Tuckasegee quarry site. Complete information will be available in next week's Herald.

Moody, Graham win; Allen, Lewis tied in third Sylva race - Voters in Sylva elected an incumbent and a political newcomer to town board seats Tuesday (Nov. 6) while two incumbents are tied for the third open seat, according to complete but unofficial results. Meanwhile, Forest Hills voters decisively came out in favor of the incumbent to settle a rematch of a race that ended tied two years ago. In the race for Sylva town board, preliminary returns have incumbent board member Maurice Moody as...

Changes to N.C. 116 intersection - Work continued this week on the reconfigured N.C. 116/Mockingbird Lane intersection near U.S. 23/441. According to N.C. Department of Transportation District Engineer Jonathan Woodard, the intersection has been altered so to give traffic on N.C. 116 the right of way while Mockiingbird Lane travellers will have a stop sign. DOT officials closed that segment of N.C. 116 last...

Complaint filed against local funeral director - Three months after paying for a headstone that has not been erected at her father’s gravesite, a Whittier woman has accused the former owner of Moody Funeral Home of taking her family’s money. Sheila Tolley last week filed a criminal complaint with the Sylva Police Department against Reg Moody Jr. Tolley alleges her family paid Moody’s in August for a headstone for her father, Henry Ashe, who died in July. Ashe is buried at Fairview...

Southern Lumber to close after six decades - A store that’s been a Sylva mainstay for more than 60 years will close its doors for good in the coming months. Founded in 1945 by Phil Stovall, Southern Lumber has been run by three generations of family members. Phil Stovall’s grandson, Tom Stovall, now operates the business. “My grandfather brought a sawmill and planer back from Georgia after World War II,” Stovall said. “He started sawing and planing for some customers here and then started...

Library fund-raiser - Friends of the Library volunteer Ed Hamlet, left, and artist Frank Brannon hold up one of the limited-edition posters for this year’s Great Smoky Mountain Book Fair that will be for sale during the Saturday, Nov. 10, event and the pre-fair Friday, Nov. 9, 6 p.m. reception and 7 p.m. performance of “On Agate Hill.” Both the fair and the play will be at Sylva First United Methodist Church, and both will raise money for the...

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