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Documents indicate shuttered Canton paper mill will soon be sold
Sep 14, 2024 · Since the execution of a 1964 contract, the mill’s various owners have treated the town’s wastewater at almost no cost. When Pactiv announced it would close the 115-year-old mill in March 2023, the future of the town’s wastewater treatment became a grave concern.. North Carolina Secretary of State records show that TBD Utilities was incorporated on Sept. 9 and shares the same business ...
Former public servants send a strong message
Mar 27, 2024 · We folks over 70 often make mistakes — forgetting and confusing names, places, dates. So when Joe Biden mistook President Sisi of Egypt as the president of Mexico I didn’t worry too much about it. Woops! And recently, when Donald Trump praised Victor Orban as the president of Turkey, I figured...
The making of a Muckraker: David Wheeler turns his attention …
Apr 12, 2023 · As the man behind the controversial North Carolina-based American Muckrakers PAC, David Wheeler’s had an outsized impact on at least one recent congressional campaign, but in 2024, he’s looking to have that same impact on a race of his own. CRY MORE, LIB Wheeler isn’t very well known to peopl...
One life lost in Macon flooding - smokymountainnews.com
Oct 2, 2024 · While Macon County may have been spared the catastrophic flooding experienced by so many of its Western North Carolina neighbors following Hurricane Helene, it was not spared the most serious and devastating effects of the storm — loss of life. On Sunday, Sept. 29, the Macon County Sherif...
General Assembly’s Helene relief bill ‘a first step’
Oct 15, 2024 · After a series of emotional speeches by western legislators during an Oct. 9 press conference and assurances from Senate President Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) that the measure was only a “first step,” North Carolina’s General Assembly unanimously passed, and Gov. Roy Cooper signed a wide-ranging $273 million storm relief act on Oct. 10 that will fund recovery spending by state agencies ...
AGAIN: Horrific storm damage will remake Western North Carolina
Oct 1, 2024 · AGAIN. For the second time in three years, Haywood County, the highest east of the Mississippi River, experienced devastating flooding from a tropical weather system that reached mountainous Southern Appalachia’s narrow, rocky canyons and broad, lush river valleys — wiping out whole towns, inundating normally impregnable areas and crippling the communications and transportation ...
Tropical Storm Helene hits Western North Carolina
Sep 26, 2024 · 11:48 a.m., Sept. 27 — Kyle Perrotti. Gov. Roy Cooper offered a brief address and answered a few questions at 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 27. Cooper began the press conference with some information everyone in Western North Carolina already knows.
Long road to recovery ahead for Waynesville’s post-Helene …
Oct 10, 2024 · “’Hey visitors, thank you for caring about us. We'd love for you to come, but we want you to know the facts before you come.’ And let me tell you, knowing the facts is huge, because we are doing a disservice to our emergency workers, to our neighbors who have experienced devastation, including right down the hill in Frog Level, and to our visitors when we say, ‘It's fine, just come ...
Despite flooding, Jackson escapes worst of Hurricane Helene impact
Oct 2, 2024 · Emergency services had already begun to see power outages across Jackson County shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday morning. By 5 p.m. that same day, the county had opened two emergency shelters at the Cashiers Recreation Center and the Department on Aging Center.
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