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WEBSmoky Mountain News. Macon County officials held a press conference last week to address illegal political signs and get ahead of some misinformation that has been circulating about absentee voting in the county. He fought to get on the ballot, and then fought to get off the ballot. Now, after a favorable ruling from North Carolina’s highly ...
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WEBSep 18, 2024 · General Assembly approve private school vouchers. Last week the North Carolina General Assembly passed a conference report, also referred to as a mini budget that includes $463 million to clear the waitlist of families that have applied for the Opportunity Scholarship Grant Program and provide voucher money for those attending private schools.
Opinion - Smoky Mountain News
WEBWritten by Scott McLeod. Wednesday, September 11, 2024. The looming 1980 presidential election was all over the news, the unpopular incumbent Jimmy Carter facing the charismatic former actor and California Gov. Ronald Reagan. A college junior in Boone walked into the Watauga County Board of Elections sometime in September and registered to …
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WEBSep 4, 2024 · Drought expands in WNC. Written by Admin. Wednesday, September 18, 2024. Over the last couple of weeks, the drought has expanded in Western North Carolina, and it now covers all of Haywood, Swain, Jackson and Macon counties. There was widespread rain over the last week, but it remains to be seen whether that precipitation cut into the drought.
Believing Bigfoot: Locals log Sasquatch evidence in North …
WEBMay 22, 2019 · Army of believers. Macon County has one of the highest number of Bigfoot sightings in North Carolina, as reported by the BFRO — five incidents are logged on the site. Montgomery County has far-and-away the most reports, with 13, followed by Onslow and Cleveland counties with six.
Best of the burden: Smokies mules make backcountry operations …
WEBMay 16, 2018 · Smokies Life, a nonprofit partner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is now…. Each mule weighs about 1,200 pounds and is capable of walking for miles with 250 pounds on its back — for a team of six mules, that’s 1,500 pounds per trip, carried over some of the most difficult terrain in the park. Today’s goal, Rainbow Falls, will ...
EBCI to sell recreational cannabis to enrolled members
WEBJul 3, 2024 · The cannabis control board accepts applications from North Carolina residents over the age of 21. The cost for issuance to residents is $100 and $50 for enrolled EBCI members. There are several approved conditions, including anxiety disorder, eating disorders and cancer. Applications can be submitted at ebci-ccb.org.
Ghost Dance has a long history in Cherokee - Smoky Mountain News
WEBFeb 2, 2011 · Few know there was a Ghost Dance movement among the Cherokees almost 80 years before the infamous epoch in the American west that culminated in the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee. Flash back to January 1889 … a Paiute Indian named Wavoka (aka Jack Wilson), while suffering from high fever, had a vision during a total eclipse of the sun.
Planted in the mountains: WNC botanist reflects on a lifetime of …
WEBWednesday, November 28, 2018. Dan Pittillo instructs a friend’s young children in the ways of botany. Stan Hammer photo. Dan Pittillo has made his name as a botanist, but he could easily have ended up a dairy farmer instead. Born in Henderson County the oldest of five, Pittillo entered the world in 1938, when the Great Depression was in full ...
As long as water runs downhill: The story of Popcorn Sutton
WEBApr 21, 2021 · P eople have been making moonshine almost since the day water started running downhill, and it seems like people have been talking about enigmatic Appalachian moonshiner Popcorn Sutton for just as long. But now, for the very first time, a full-length biography attempts to explore the conflicted life and legacy of …
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