Archives for March 9, 2023

Greening Up set to kick off festival season

Story originally published in The Sylva Herald, March 9 edition. The first leaves to fall are on the top of the mountain. There is no festival.But when the first green at the bottom of the mountainsides starts working its way up it is time to wear bright clothes, get out into fresh spring air and […]

Webster board begins short-term rental conversation

Originally published in The Sylva Herald, March 9 edition. Short-term rentals, an issue discussed in municipal boardrooms across the region, were on the minds of the Webster Town Council at their March 1 meeting. The board discussed at length how to deal with rental organizations who, can “drive up the housing costs for people who […]

WCU vs. mold … and the mold is winning

Mold is a problem at Western Carolina University. After our story about it in the Hunter Library that took 10 months to clean, we are finding some more buildings with similar issues that have been growing mold for longer than two years. The TV and recording studios are on the first level of the Center […]