Appalachian True Heritage Festival will be held May 2-3 on Main Street in Waynesville. Dubbed “An Evening Under the Arch,” ...

As a practitioner and student of poetry all my life, I’ve noticed that while there is a lot of poetry written well and with talented reach, at the same time, there is little current poetry that I’ve ...

Whole Bloomin’ Thing Festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the Historic Frog Level District of Waynesville. Children’s activities, local growers and artisans/crafters, ...

Dear Rep. Chuck Edwards. It's been a little while, and your defense of the tariffs still has no legs. But that's not why I'm ...

Acknowledging the fact that, yes, all Americans have a right to have and express an opinion, and that the press has a ...

The garden gnomes stared at me from our cluttered carport, dirty and bored, no blooming flowers to observe or tomato vines to tickle their bellies. I was holding on to them well past their desire.  ...

I would like to thank the local author David Joy for speaking out about the removal of the plaque from the Confederate statue ...

I am 91 years old. For close to 50 of those years we lived at 116 Cowan Street in Sylva. We were active members at First ...

On Saturday, April 26, a group of protesters took to the Little Tennessee River to call attention to what they see as ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life — ...

Recovery from Hurricane Helene hasn’t been a partisan affair — on the ground, at least — but North Carolina’s 11th ...

The National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with Friends of the Smokies, is beginning a multi-year rehabilitation of the ...