For nearly 100 years, the Fontana Regional Library System has reflected the traditional mountain values of literacy, truth and community responsibility. These values guided our grandparents who built ...

Growing up in Swain County, Nathan Dee Greene ate a lot of apples. The family had several trees of their own, but every fall, they bought bushels from the nearby orchard on Laurel Branch, across the ...

Law enforcement leaders and elected officials from across Western North Carolina gathered the day before Thanksgiving to ...

Haywood Community College continues to expand university transfer agreements with North Carolina universities. HCC offers ...

At any given moment, Perry Matthews — caterer, culinary instructor, homeschool curriculum-builder and veteran chef of upscale restaurants — was juggling enough responsibilities to fill an entire ...

At age 66, legendary singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott is having a career rebirth of sorts.  Though he’s always been known as a prolific and productive artist — whether in ...

Georgia poet and author Rupert Fike and I lived in the San Francisco Bay area during the 1970s in a time of social ...

Regional Americana act Somebody’s Child will perform at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, at Mountain Layers Brewing Company in Bryson City. For more than a decade, Ashley Claxton and Cola Williamson have been ...

Jam-rock ensemble Prophets of Time will hit the stage at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, at Lazy Hiker Brewing in Sylva. A multi-genre blending rock band hailing from the mountains of Western North Carolina, ...

It was a Friday afternoon a few weeks ago, and I was chafing. Perhaps you saw me. I was that 65-ish guy with sunglasses and a ...

What’s the point of human existence if we’re not part of something bigger than ourselves?  Our need for connection is rooted deep within our biology — as important as food, water and shelter. In fact, ...

The Fontana Regional Library Board of Trustees is again struggling to implement changes as it trudges forward without legal ...