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	<title>The Southern Highland Reader&#187; OPINION: NC 107 connector &#8220;just a bad idea&#8221;</title>
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		<title>OPINION: NC 107 connector &#8220;just a bad idea&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CULLOWHEE&#8211;In a letter published in this week&#8217;s Smoky Mountain News, Jeannette Evans, owner of Cullowhee&#8217;s Mad Batter and principal in the area transportation advocacy group Smart Roads, has a look at where the &#8220;southern loop&#8221; issue stands.
A clip:
A new bypass has enormous potential to drastically change our community’s traffic patterns, economy and landscape. Conversely, all [...]


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		<title>OPINION: Cullowhee outfitter Kornegay says why Dillsboro dam should go</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CULLOWHEE&#8211;When outfitter Burt Kornegay, owner of Slickrock Expeditions, got an email from a friend inviting him to a save-the-Dillsboro-Dam shindig, he fired off a pithy response. Naturally, it was immediately shared all around the interwebs, where by complete happenstance it filtered all the way down to me.
Here it is, with his permission:
First, the note from [...]


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		<title>UPDATED: Sylva Town Board appoints fifth member</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SYLVA&#8211;Sylva town leaders, in a unanimous vote, have named former Economic Development Commission board member Chris Matheson to fill an empty seat on their board.
The vote at Thursday&#8217;s meeting filled the seat vacated by newly-elected mayor Maurice Moody.
The naming of Moody&#8217;s replacement had been the focus of speculation, because on the frequently ideologically divided board [...]


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		<title>Smoky Mtn. News: Spending bill could include Swain road settlement</title>
		<link>http://www.thesouthernhighlandreader.com/smoky-mtn-news-sources-say-spending-bill-includes-swain-road-settlement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GSMNP&#8211;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 (in theory) lay to rest Swain County&#8217;s North Shore Road controversy.
Hendershot quotes anonymous sources, and hints that the dollar amount could be [...]


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		<title>WCU refines marketing efforts, sees applications soar</title>
		<link>http://www.thesouthernhighlandreader.com/wcu-refines-marketing-efforts-sees-applications-soar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western Carolina University's soaring pool of applicants is described as a "success story in outreach and marketing" by Smoky Mountain News reporter Giles Morris in this piece for the November 18 issue. News editor Becky Johnson adds, in a sidebar, that the quality of students could rise with the number of applications, and that the university's student retention rate -- often a problem in Cullowhee -- has risen past the national average.


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		<title>Smoky Mtn. News: State hands child support enforcement to counties</title>
		<link>http://www.thesouthernhighlandreader.com/smoky-mtn-news-state-hands-child-support-enforcement-to-counties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[REGIONAL&#8211;The Smoky Mountain News&#8217;s Bibeka Shrestha reports that four far west counties and the Qualla Boundary are moving quickly to organize enforcement of child support laws after the state announced it would no longer handle the chore.
An excerpt:

The state will save about $4 million each year by cutting the program, which now serves 28 out [...]


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		<title>Balsam Preserve in receivership</title>
		<link>http://www.thesouthernhighlandreader.com/balsam-preserve-in-receivership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BALSAM&#8211;The Balsam Mountain Preserve, a large gated community and significant employer in northern Jackson County, has been placed into receivership, according to a story in the Smoky Mountain News.
This means that a third party has been appointed by the court to manage the property pending the outcome of ongoing foreclosure proceedings.
Read the News story here.


Related [...]


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		<title>Citizen Times on the politics of road-building</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[REGIONAL&#8211;It&#8217;s no secret that in North Carolina, with its appointed and influential Department of Transportation Board, road construction is heavily politicized. That&#8217;s a foregone conclusion in the &#8220;good roads state&#8220;.
And one of the crown jewels of politicized road-building is I-40 west, which, just under half a century ago, was routed through particularly inhospitable country at [...]


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		<title>The Cliffs of Balsam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SYLVA&#8211;The forecast remains cloudy for Balsam Mountain Preserve, a 4,400-acre gated community near Sylva, after a foreclosure hearing for the property was continued for a month last Friday.
Jackson County Clerk of Court Ann Melton continued the hearing until November 30 at the request of Balsam Mountain Preserve attorney Jay Coward, and over the protests of [...]


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		<title>Sylva hotel to remain unfinished</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SYLVA&#8211;An imposing hotel construction project, dormant since early 2009, will remain unfinished for the foreseeable future according to the Smoky Mountain News.

Construction of the Clarion Inn on NC 107 N, near Walmart, ceased in January of 2009. In February, developers told the Sylva Herald that construction would resume in May. Construction did not resume and [...]


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