David Moore and Darren Whatley place a lot of value on public education, having both attended public universities. Moore is ...

I would like to thank the local author David Joy for speaking out about the removal of the plaque from the Confederate statue ...

The “Mother’s Day Gemboree” will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 9-10 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 11 at the Macon County ...

Appalachian True Heritage Festival will be held May 2-3 on Main Street in Waynesville. Dubbed “An Evening Under the Arch,” ...

Dear Rep. Chuck Edwards. It's been a little while, and your defense of the tariffs still has no legs. But that's not why I'm ...

Acknowledging the fact that, yes, all Americans have a right to have and express an opinion, and that the press has a ...

I am 91 years old. For close to 50 of those years we lived at 116 Cowan Street in Sylva. We were active members at First ...

The National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with Friends of the Smokies, is beginning a multi-year rehabilitation of the ...

The Town of Canton is currently wrestling with one of the ugliest budget conundrums in decades due to a combination of ...

Whole Bloomin’ Thing Festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the Historic Frog Level District of Waynesville. Children’s activities, local growers and artisans/crafters, ...

The Jackson County Board of Education this month took an in-depth look at per pupil spending across the school system, ...

As a practitioner and student of poetry all my life, I’ve noticed that while there is a lot of poetry written well and with talented reach, at the same time, there is little current poetry that I’ve ...