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

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

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 ...

- 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 ...

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 ...

We write as a non-partisan group of Jackson County residents who have organized to support the Fontana Regional Library (FRL), the Jackson County Public Libraries and their leadership. We are ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mau urged the board to do three things: place the revenue neutral rate on the proposed budget so that property owners could see how the projected tax rate might impact them, provide a breakdown of ...

Western Carolina University’s College of Engineering and Technology will offer two free America’s Cutting Edge Machining Bootcamps this summer open to students and community members high school age ...

Constance “Connie” Stiles, 69, of Franklin, North Carolina, passed away peacefully in her home, Tuesday, June 10, 2025.