News Staff As the Halloween holiday approaches, many are looking ahead to Christmas. Volunteers are preparing to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts for the Samaritan’s Purse project during National Collection Week, Nov. 15-22. The project partners with local churches to deliver the shoebox gifts – filled with school supplies, hygiene items and fun toys. Individuals, families … Read more
The city of Sylva is hoping to partner with Jackson County to address housing needs in the community. Representatives from the two governments plan to meet soon to diciss the housing shortage, including potentially using property within city limits to develop affordable housing. There’s no specific proposal at this point, but officials said they will … Read more
SYLVA, N.C. (WLOS) – The N.C. 107 expansion project in Sylva is moving forward and some area businesses are having to move out. Five buildings around the N.C. 107/U.S. 23 intersection must be removed. Eight businesses will have to relocate. Impacted property owners have been contacted and the right-of-way acquisition process is underway, officials said. … Read more
Calls for Congressman Cawthorn to resign are getting louder amid growing concern he helped organize the Jan.6 pro Trump insurrection at the U.S. capitol. The pushback stems from an investigation that, according to media reports, shows the Hendersonville Republican, and 8th generation resident of North Carolina’s 11th Congressional district, along with six other GOP Representatives, … Read more
Churches around Haywood County will be hosting a safe, fun alternative to door to door trick or treating this Halloween. Trunk or treat events will allow kids to trick-or-treat from the trunks of cars and enjoy fellowship with other community members. -0-
Renovations at Waynesville’s oldest country club could help boost the local economy. JD Trueblood, the membership director at Waynesville Inn & Golf Club, said work to transform and modernize the 1955 golf course and iconic inn is well underway, and a hallmark of the Raines Company, which is investing $28 million into the upgrade, is … Read more
About 100 party loyalists gathered at Lake Junaluska’s Nanci Weldon gym Saturday for the fall Democratic rally. Speakers included former U.S. Congressman Heath Shuler and Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers, who talked of how Haywood has set the stage for showing others how people can work together for the common good as they are in the … Read more
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. COVID-19 booster shots are getting the go-ahead in the mountains. The Haywood County Health Department in Waynesville is offering booster shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. The goal, Health Director Sarah Henderson said, is to try to get out a relatively large quantity in a … Read more
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. COVID-19 booster shots are getting the go-ahead in the mountains. The Haywood County Health Department in Waynesville is offering booster shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. The goal, Health Director Sarah Henderson said, is to try to get out a relatively large quantity in a … Read more
A joint opeation by the CIPD and Tribal ALE resulted in the arrests of two men on drug trafficking charges. Stephen Andrew Shiebler, Jr., 53, and Randall Trent Russell, 32, were both charged in Swain County in connection with this incident in which police confiscated pproximately 238 grams of suspected Methamphetamine, 111 grams of suspected … Read more