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WEBAt our inception 20 years ago, we chose to be different. Unlike other news organizations, we made the decision to provide in-depth, regional reporting free to anyone who wanted access to it. We don’t plan to change that model.
Perkins brothers turn custom home building business into …
WEBNov 17, 2021 · The sun was shining overhead and the autumn colors were at their peak as the builders finished up work on another custom built house that will soon be a three-story, 2,000-square-foot mountain getaway for a couple in Atlanta.
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WEB5 days ago · On the weekend of Sept. 20-21, I went to the Grindstone 100-Mile Ultramarathon at Natural Chimneys Park in Virginia, where my oldest son was a participant. 294 runners took part in this grueling ordeal.
What’s left behind: Canton mill closure leaves complex …
WEBJun 28, 2023 · The paper mill has been closed for years now, but the cleanup is ongoing. Shortly before the plant shut down, a group of fishermen found a dark substance seeping out of the riverbanks. It was black liquor, a caustic byproduct of papermaking that is extremely toxic to both humans and aquatic life. Th...
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WEB2 days ago · AGAIN. For the second time in three years, Haywood County, the highest east of the Mississippi River, experienced devastating flooding from a tropical weather system that reached mountainous Southern Appalachia’s narrow, rocky canyons and broad, lush river valleys — wiping out whole towns, inundating normally impregnable areas and crippling the communications and transportation ...
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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WEBFrom the Tennessee state line to about mile marker 4 of Interstate 40, the two eastbound lanes are either gone or partially gone. In addition, there are about three other damaged locations in an 11-mile stretch leading to Fines Creek Road (Exit 15).
Panther sightings persist in the Smokies - Smoky Mountain News
WEBApr 15, 2020 · Mountain lions were common enough well into the 19th century throughout North Carolina. According to Donald W. Linzey’s notes in Mammals of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (1995), the last mountain lion killed in the Great Smokies was back in the early winter of 1920: “Tom Sparks was said to have been attacked by a panther while herding sheep on Spence Field.
Maggie Valley Arts & Crafts Show - Smoky Mountain News
WEBThe annual Maggie Valley Arts & Crafts Show will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 31-Sept. 1 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds.
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