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Evergreen Community Charter School teacher Stuart Miles reminded his students all morning Wednesday they would need to be quiet during the upcoming assembly on fire safety.

Financial mismanagement, personnel issues may be probed By Lee Raynor/Carolina Journal News Service KENANSVILLE - Relocation expenses paid to a Duplin County Schools employee who then failed to move is believed to have triggered an impending State Bureau of Investigation probe of the school district.

More than 100 people filled the school's auditorium to voice their opinion about the permit.

People for and against Evergreen Packaging's proposed wastewater discharge permit may agree on one thing: They don't want anyone at the paper mill in Canton to lose their job.

Environmental groups at a hearing tonight will push for stronger standards for wastewater discharged into the Pigeon River from a Canton paper mill.

The process of renewing a discharge permit for Evergreen Packaging is in the final stretch, with the public hearing portion scheduled for tonight and tomorrow night.

The paper mill sucks roughly 29 million gallons a day out of the river and uses it in myriad aspects of the paper making process - from cooling coal-fired boilers to flushing chemicals through wood pulp - and then dumps it back in the river again.

While unemployment in Haywood County remains slightly below the state average, the rate recently climbed a marginal .6 percent.

Gabrielle Schroeder, a senior at Carolina Day School, has been honored as one of only five students in North Carolina to receive the 2009 National Council of Teachers of English certificate as a superior writer.

With the help of the town of Waynesville, HVO received a grant for $240,000 from the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center.

The Mountaineer reports: A discharge permit required for Blue Ridge Paper Products, doing business as Evergreen Packing, Inc.

A discharge permit required for Blue Ridge Paper Products, doing business as Evergreen Packing, Inc.

A Tennessee attorney who has spent years suing the paper mill in Haywood County has asked a federal court to allow a class-action case worth at least $5 million against the company.

Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont has named Lynn Boggs as the Chief Executive Officer of the newly realigned organization, which combines four Girl Scout councils into one, high-capacity council.

The following column is part of a series by the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce everGREEN Committee, which, according to organizers is tasked with the mission: 'To promote the adoption and practice of sustainable development principles which foster economic prosperity while preserving the environment for future generations.' Many communities in ...

The following column is part of a series by the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce everGREEN Committee, which, according to organizers is tasked with the mission: 'To promote the adoption and practice of sustainable development principles which foster economic prosperity while preserving the environment for future generations.' Many communities in ...

A fender-bender Saturday afternoon turned into a 30-minute, two-county "follow" that ended with a second wreck, a 15-minute manhunt and a Clarkton man charged with six traffic violations.

Submitted by Jolene Reilly on 24 July 2009 - 12:11pm. Fugitive Files Mugshot Text Detectives in Columbus County are asking for the public's help in locating four men.