• Jerry Gaines achieved the unbelievable feat of making All-American in three different sports when he was named to the ...

On Sunday, July 6, in cooperation with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the North Shore Cemetery Association will host decorations on the North Shore of Fontana Lake at Proctor ...

Friday night accident claims life of Sylva man By Carey Phillips A Sylva man died in a one-vehicle accident around 11 p.m. Friday on Fisher Creek Road. Trooper Denny Wood of the N.C. Highway Patrol ...

The 31-year-old Pry, who listed an address of Red Barn Lane, Sylva, is charged with driving while impaired and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, according to Capt. R.S. Sutton of ...

A March 29, 1928, article in The Jackson County Journal covers much of the same information, but adds that the new library will open “Monday.” Since the JCJ was a Thursday publication, that means ...

• Were shown copies of information that will be sent home with every high school student on the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Common Core is a set of standards that establishes goals at ...

Meanwhile, the plaintiff has amended her original suit to include an allegation that Jackson County Sheriff Jim Cruzan knew the deputy assigned to serve as school resource officer at Blue Ridge had ...

Thornburg was previously appointed to a seat on the N.C. Court of Appeals, but lost a 2004 bid for election to the post. Prior to that he was a member of the law firm of Patla, Straus, Robinson & ...

On February 8, 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was founded. This week February 8th through 14th is the 35th anniversary of Scouting.Sylva Boy Scouts are celebrating the event in numerous ways. They ...

“Everything is so much quicker and computerized,” he said. “You can pull somebody over now and anywhere they’re wanted in the United States you’re going to know it in minutes. We used to have a ticket ...

Whoever Smith sets as his target, he may have a hard time luring him to Cullowhee. Being men s basketball coach at Western Carolina has been akin to a career-killing job. Since the legendary Jim ...

Duke has been ordered by federal regulators to remove the dam and powerhouse as mediation for the relicensing of its larger hydroelectric plants. Jackson County commissioners opposed that plan and ...