Swain County News

Marsha Crites, of Sylva, will lead a demonstration/presentation on 'Using Principles of Composition in Watercolor Landscape Design' for the Art League of the Smokies at 6:15 p.m. Jan.

A cash settlement with the federal government in lieu of the long-promised North Shore Road will reap annual dividends for Swain County for years to come.

Claude Douthit has spent half his life fighting the federal government over the North Shore Road.

During most of the 1920s, while fighting to secure the founding of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Horace Kephart labored mightily over a novel titled "Smoky Mountain Magic." Through the years, plot and characters varied from each draft.

When store owners pack up their holiday decorations next month, there's one thing Karen Wilmot hopes they will leave up - a sign that reminds residents to shop local.

Dec. 16. The funds for the initial North Shore Road payment was passed as a provision attached to a spending bill.

Swain County commissioners have settled a ten-month long lawsuit with Buckeye Construction for $30,000, far less than the $127,000 originally demanded.

A Swain County pub owner faces a criminal citation and could have his liquor license suspended after investigators said he served mixed drinks to a 20-year-old patron who later died in an alcohol-related car accident.

A number of counties in Western North Carolina are reporting downed trees and flooding along with some power outages after a night of heavy rain and wind.

SouthernHighlandReader reports a SmokyMountainNews story: Smoky Mountain News outdoor writer Don Hendershot wrote last week that the 2010 omnibus spending bill, due to be signed in a couple of weeks, might include the long-awaited cash settlement that would lay to rest Swain County's North Shore Road controversy.

Reliable, undisclosed anonymous sources tell this reporter that the Fiscal year 2010 Omnibus Bill expected to be signed in a couple of weeks will seal the deal on the North Shore Road to Nowhere.

While the addition of alcohol sales at Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel will undoubtedly be lucrative for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, they won't be alone in reaping a windfall.

Headlines Fall is a great time for trail running, but be aware Fall is a beautiful time in our mountains.

Players at Harrah's Cherokee Casino can now have a stiff drink between games. And under an arrangement approved last week by state officials, their purchase will benefit both Swain and Jackson counties.

The fourth annual Bryson City Holiday 5K race will start at 10 a.m. Dec. 5 at the Swain County Administration Building on Mitchell Street downtown.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recently got a big push forward in building its own jail after receiving an $18 million grant from the Department of Justice.

Knowledge of Mandarin language will grow in importance What a pleasant surprise to read the article, "Teacher speaks, students learn," , describing a high school in Swain County which is presently the only school in the state of North Carolina to have a native teacher of Chinese brought to the school from China under the State Department's ...

Singer songwriter Dusk Weaver will perform a free Story Song Americana concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Swain County Center for the Arts.

Winston-Salem police are searching for a man who robbed the Piedmont Advantage Credit Union yesterday at 676 Hanes Mall Blvd.

The body of a Swain County murder suspect was found hanging in a Haywood County Jail cell Wednesday.