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WEBSales began last Saturday morning, Sept. 7, at 10 a.m. at the old bingo hall on the western end of the Qualla Boundary. The dispensary is owned by the Great Smoky Cannabis Co., operated by Qualla Enterprises, LLC, an Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians-owned company that also operates a 22.5-acre cannabis farm. A bipartisan panel of election law ...
Staying true to your roots: Lazy Hiker Brewing celebrates …
WEBNov 24, 2020 · Timothy Sark (left) and Graham Norris. Coming into 2020, Lazy Hiker was gearing up to celebrate its fifth anniversary in operation. It’s was, and remains, a milestone for the brewery, even more in the face of eventual shutdowns and restrictions in the current era of the coronavirus. “Five years is a benchmark for any business, especially in ...
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WEBSep 18, 2024 · General Assembly approve private school vouchers. Last week the North Carolina General Assembly passed a conference report, also referred to as a mini budget that includes $463 million to clear the waitlist of families that have applied for the Opportunity Scholarship Grant Program and provide voucher money for those attending private schools.
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WEBWritten by Scott McLeod. Wednesday, September 11, 2024. The looming 1980 presidential election was all over the news, the unpopular incumbent Jimmy Carter facing the charismatic former actor and California Gov. Ronald Reagan. A college junior in Boone walked into the Watauga County Board of Elections sometime in September and registered to …
‘We never gave up hope’: After 11 days missing, Tennessee teen …
WEBAug 30, 2017 · Austin Bohanan, 18, had been lost in the wilderness for 11 days when he woke up the morning of Aug. 22 to see boats floating on the water below the ridge where he’d slept. Those boats were his ticket out of the nightmare that began Aug. 11 when he’d gotten separated from his stepfather Hubert Dyer, Jr., during an off-trail excursion in the ...
What’s left behind: Canton mill closure leaves complex …
WEBJun 28, 2023 · Like the mill in Maryland, the Canton mill has left behind some messes. Currently, there are two active cleanups onsite resulting from issues with above-ground storage tanks. The first , discovered in February 2021, was a release of gasoline from an underground pump supply line from a tank. A 1-foot-thick layer was …
Uncovering the past before it’s too late: Old Smokies’ homesites …
WEBOct 10, 2012 · Casada is an artifact and home site hunter, who scours forgotten trails of Smokies with a GPS system in search of artifacts and physical clues of the inhabitants who lived on the land before it became part of the park and they were forced to leave.
CIPD officers shoot Murphy man in SWAT response
WEBFeb 8, 2023 · CIPD officers shoot Murphy man in SWAT response. Jason Harley Kloepfer stands at the door with his hands up one second before officers fired. Photo from Kloepfer security video. When officers shot Murphy resident Jason Harley Kloepfer, 41, while responding to a disturbance call Monday, Dec. 12, a press release from the Cherokee County Sheriff ...
Man arrested for child sex crimes in Haywood - Smoky Mountain …
WEBDec 6, 2023 · Man arrested for child sex crimes in Haywood. On Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, Haywood County Sheriff’s deputies from the Criminal Suppression Unit located and arrested Tyler James Ponder, 35, of Canton, North Carolina on four counts each of statutory sex offense with a child by an adult and four counts of taking indecent liberties with a child ...
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