Today, we will be discussing a somewhat sticky subject – thistles. Thistles have been largely relegated into the noxious weed ...

The Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation has announced the start of its 2025 LIFT Grant cycle. The Health Foundation’s LIFT Grants will support and fund programs focusing on one or more ...

THE 49TH HASKETT REUNION will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 19 at the Webster Baptist Church Fellowship Room, with a pot luck lunch at noon. Hasketts are descendants ...

• Jerry Gaines achieved the unbelievable feat of making All-American in three different sports when he was named to the ...

Sylva Rotarians will celebrate 80 years of service to their community next week with a barbecue and covered-dish picnic.

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This picture of local Boy Scouts is believed to have been taken shortly after the organization's 35th anniversary celebration in 1945 in front of the old Sylva School, next to ...

Scotts Creek produced more water than the Tuckaseigee could add to its already full load and backed up into Back Street in Dillsboro. Monday morning saw a flock of business owners and town leaders ...

The man generally considered the greatest athlete ever produced in Jackson County has died. Jimmy Streater, 46, passed away Friday at Blue Ridge Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Asheville.

Cecil Groves, president of Southwestern Community College since 1997, has announced he plans to retire at the end of this academic year - June 30.

Steve Shurina has been removed as men s basketball coach at Western Carolina and reassigned to a teaching position at the school.

Fifty-two years, nine guns and three retirements later, Sylva Police Officer J.P. Gallardo is ready to catch some bass and trout.