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ASHEVILLE The auditorium of Vance Elementary has been transformed into a 'planetorium.' Now hanging from the ceiling are scale replicas of the nine planets in the solar system.

Unfinished business [ Urp. ] 'Scuse me. I trust you had a nice Thanksgiving, and that you won all the political arguments you either started or got pulled into.

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CULLOWHEE Western Carolina University's Institute for the Economy and the Future is launching WNC Pulse, a new Web-based initiative, to help solve regional problems by identifying Western North Carolina's major ...

Swain County recently unveiled its master recreation plan, a 10-year roadmap of how the county hopes to expand and improve its recreation offerings.

Native Americans in North Carolina never lived in teepees. They wear regalia, not costumes, for their traditional dance.

Lloyd Arneach will be telling stories at the American Indian Heritage Celebration at the N.C. Museum of History at 5 Edenton St.

Carrie Grayson is a living example of Cherokee tradition. Grayson, a member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, learned to weave baskets as a child and is passing along those skills to her ...

SCOTT WALLACE/Cherokee Scout A group of recently unemployed workers watch a video presentation in the N.C. Employment Security Commission office in Murphy on Monday.

If you like native plants that are variable and adaptive, have interesting natural histories with abundant associations in both Cherokee and early white settler folklore, add immeasurably to the fall landscape ...

A group in Cherokee is circulating a petition calling for a referendum to decide whether voters want alcohol sales at Harrah's Casino.

Josh Boatwright * JBoatwright@CITIZEN-TIMES.com * published November 12, 2008 12:15 am CHEROKEE Federal investigators believe three people charged in the beating and stabbing death of a Cherokee man were acting ...

ASHEVILLE Robert Morgan, author of 'Boone: A Biography,' the 2008 Together We Read pick, will explore Appalachian identity in Karpen Hall's Laurel Forum, UNC Asheville, at 3:30 p.m. Nov.

Point Lookout reborn: Once upon a time, motorists crossing the mountain ridge between Marion and Asheville stopped at Point Lookout to take their picture with Sally the brown bear, grab a hot dog at the ...

A Gary Carden story bubbles up from a 'quare gene,' as mountain folk like to say, outfits itself with a Sylva childhood and marries itself to a mix of old radio and movie serials, Cherokee lore and world ...

CHEROKEE The first river cane basket to be finished at Cherokee High School since the 1960s was recently completed by Hannah Youngdeer.

Elizabeth and I often drive through portions of eastern and middle Tennessee. As soon we pass out of Western North Carolina into the limestone regions of that state, the dominant tree along roadsides becomes ...

Times Staff Although many voters have cast their ballots early, the majority will have their say on Election Day Tuesday.

Some of the pictures included:A Blue Ridge Parkway, outside of Cherokee NC, Fields of the Wood , Mists over Mountain of Soco Gap, NC, Oconoluflee River, Overlook at Big Witch Gap , Pigeon River, TN, Rafters on ...

During the dark and windy nights to come a ' especially the night of Oct. 31 a ' you might be looking for a story to chill your spine and raise a few hairs.