Today, we will be discussing a somewhat sticky subject – thistles. Thistles have been largely relegated into the noxious weed ...

The Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation has announced the start of its 2025 LIFT Grant cycle. The Health Foundation’s LIFT Grants will support and fund programs focusing on one or more ...

THE 49TH HASKETT REUNION will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 19 at the Webster Baptist Church Fellowship Room, with a pot luck lunch at noon. Hasketts are descendants ...

This week in local history: ...

- Herald photo by Lisa Majors-DuffRebecca Dutsch of Andrews, whose mother, Kathy Dutsch, did not receive a paycheck for three weeks in December from her employer, Immediate Med Services, began ...

The North Carolina Community Action Association last week announced proud Senator Kevin Corbin as its 2025 Legislator of the Year, honoring his exceptional commitment to public service, advocacy for ...

Walter Mucklow Burnett was born in Schenectady, New York on Nov. 8, 1937. He grew up in Niskayuna, N.Y. and spent many of the summers of his youth at Camp Chingachgook on Lake George as a camper, ...

Melba Jean Richards, 92, of Cullowhee, went home to be with the Lord on June 5, 2025. Born in Nashville, Tennessee on Feb. 19, 1933, she later attended Ward-Belmont Preparatory School.

In the quiet hours of May 30, 2025, David Lee Matheson, age 83, passed away in Sylva, North Carolina, concluding a decade-long battle with dementia – a journey his family ...

As the days get longer and the weather warms, Jackson County’s residents are looking forward to spending more time outside – whether it’s at a picnic, a ball game or a leisurely stroll through the ...

Turtles and tortoises represent some of the last survivors of the world’s long past. These are some of the most ancient living creatures on earth and have remained relatively unchanged by evolution ...

Then as now, I’d have been shocked to see a letter from congressional representative to constituent that was anything other than respectful, helpful, even cloying. But 250 years ago this week, North ...