Robbinsville News

The snow amounts are staggering this Saturday morning and the storm is still cranking.

The Supreme Court heard arguments recently in a 15-year-old whistle-blower case that had its headwaters in Robbinsville.

Fifty-three acts performed during Catch the Spirit of Appalachia's recent Heritage Alive Mountain Youth Talent Contest on stage at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts.

Robbinsville , Mountain Heritage , Tuscola and Reynolds . Western North Carolina will be represented in those classifications in the NCHSAA Western Regional football finals next week.

Ronnie Milsap was one of the major figures of country music in the 1970s, developing a hybrid of country and pop that brought him a large audience.

Dr. Graeme Potter has received a Patients' Choice award that is posted in her online profile on Vitals.com, a Web site providing physician ratings.

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced up to $30.6 million in Recovery Act funding for selection of seven hydropower projects that modernize hydropower infrastructure by increasing efficiency and reducing environmental impacts at existing facilities.

Voith Hydro in West Manchester Township is expected to benefit from a round of federal funding announced Wednesday morning at the plant by U.S. Undersecretary of Energy Kristina Johnson.

An overwhelming majority of citizens who showed up at a public hearing in Robbinsville spoke out against the Corridor K road project last Thursday .

Interstate 40 could be closed for more than three months between Exit 20 in North Carolina and Exit 451 in Tennessee because of a rockslide that occurred last Sunday, October 25.

Animals , Classifieds , Lost & Found - By admin on October 23, 2009 at 10:08 am Missing: 2 English Mastiffs off of Yellow Creek Road in Robbinsville.

The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold three open houses and a public hearing on the proposed relocation of U.S. 74 from U.S. 129 in Robbinsville to N.C. 28 in Stecoah.

"Stark Love," a silent film filmed in 1926 in the remote mountains of Robbinsville, N.C., depicts a rare view of primitive and harsh Appalachian life.

By the end of the year, McDowell County should have a new free medical clinic, one that will provide care to the hundreds of people without health insurance and in need of a doctor's attention.

A road project known as Corridor K will boast the longest tunnel in the state of North Carolina if built as planned: a 2,807-foot passage through the side of a mountain in the Stecoah area of Graham County.

Motorcyclists in western North Carolina should take note. Beginning next year, emergency help on the Swain County route known as the "Tail of the Dragon" will take longer to arrive.

Motorcyclists in western North Carolina should take note. Beginning next year, emergency help on the Swain County route known as the "Tail of the Dragon" will take longer to arrive.

Few roads wind through the mountains in Graham County, making it easily overlooked in the state's rush to spend millions in federal highway stimulus dollars.

In connection with its revamped youth program, Stanley Furniture says it is taking efforts to protect the environment.

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