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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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