The story was written by Carey Phillips and published in The Sylva Herald edition on June 25 Madison Cawthorn rolled to victory Tuesday in the runoff primary to determine the Republican nominee for the 11th Congressional District seat. Cawthorn, a Henderson County resident who owns a real estate investment company, received 30,444 votes, or 65.8 […]
Archives for June 2020
Monumental issue: Debate over statue draws varied perspectives
June 25, 2020 by
Originally published in The Sylva Herald on June 25, 2020. As signatures increase on dueling change.org petitions – one to remove Sylva’s Confederate monument and one to leave it alone – and the number of marchers grows, government officials and others have responded to the issue. Sylva has seen a vigil and two marches supporting […]
Elections 2020: Republican runoff for NC 11 is today
June 22, 2020 by
The second primary in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District is on June 23. The two candidates in the Republican block, Madison Cawthorn and Lynda Bennett, face each other again when neither got the 30 % threshold in the primaries in March. The significance of this primary goes beyond which Republican candidate will face Moe Davis, who won […]
Governor signs legislative ‘mini-budget’ providing final $16.5 million for WCU steam plant project
June 22, 2020 by
Gov. Roy Cooper sign on a legislative “mini-budget” providing the final $16.5 million appropriation to fund replacement of Western Carolina University’s decades-old steam plant. University officials say that late Chancellor David O. Belcher must be smiling down from above. The “mini budget” was signed on Friday, June 19. Belcher, who died in June 2018 after […]
Community again debates monument
June 19, 2020 by
Originally published in The Sylva Herald on June 18, 2020. He stands sentinel over Sylva as silent as a tomb, but the Confederate soldier statue on the Courthouse steps has set tongues to wagging and fingers to typing. Dueling petitions about the monument have sprung up on change.org, a website used to draw support […]
Coronavirus cases mount in Jackson County
June 19, 2020 by
Originally published in The Sylva Herald on June 18, 2020. Jackson County COVID-19 cases have more than doubled in the last month. On Tuesday, May 19, health officials reported 25 cases. As of Tuesday of this week (June 16), 61 cases were reported. That includes six more cases of COVID-19 in full-time residents of Jackson […]
