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FOOTBALL: Three Cherokee players selected for Native All-American Game
CHEROKEE, N.C. – Three members of the Tsalagi Anitsvyasdi (Cherokee Braves) have been named to the 5th Annual Native All-American Football Game which will be held on Jan. 2, 2027 at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minn. The players, all three seniors at Cherokee High School and members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, include Kingston Welch, Zaynon Taylor, and Drallen Ledford.
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Snow in WNC: School closing, mountain snowfall expected
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Snow showers were showing up on radar across the mountains early Friday, with some of the highest peaks along the Tennessee border potentially picking up several inches before the weekend is over. And while most of the accumulation is expected to stay in the higher...
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Medicaid Work Rules Don’t Apply to Native Americans. They Could Still Lose Coverage.
CHEROKEE, N.C. — Two months before the deadline to implement new Medicaid work requirements, states had yet to receive detailed guidance from federal health officials on how to exclude Native Americans from those rules, leading to a patchwork of eligibility checks that pose challenges for qualified enrollees trying to keep their health insurance.
Asheville Citizen-Times
Canton lost its mill. Now the clock is ticking on its future
CANTON - First came the flood. Then the mill went silent. Then another flood. In August 2021, Tropical Storm Fred devastated Canton, swamping homes, businesses and municipal buildings. In June 2023, the paper mill that had sustained the Haywood County town for 115 years closed. Tropical Storm Helene brought another round of destructive flooding in September 2024. Now, after three devastating blows in four years, Canton is trying to do something more ambitious than recover. It is trying to decide what it wants to become. A sweeping new comprehensive plan puts the former mill property at the center of that transformation, envisioning a district of manufacturing, housing, commerce and recreation connected to downtown and the Pigeon River . But with a moratorium on data centers expiring in February and new development regulations on the horizon, the town faces growing pressure to turn its aspirations into policy before others decide the property's future. “This isn’t our plan,” Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers said during a Nov. 10 meeting. “It's the citizens’.” The 95-page Canton 2050 Comprehensive Plan, dated Oct. 20 and labeled a final draft, is the product of months of public workshops, surveys and conversations about what should replace the industrial
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Gordon Ramsay Serves His Famous Beef Wellington 12 Floors Up In The North Carolina Mountains
Gordon Ramsay is famous for yelling at cooks on TV, but in the far western tip of North Carolina, his name is attached to something much calmer: a dining room perched high above the Smoky Mountains. Far from the big-city restaurant crowd, the small mountain town of Murphy holds a restaurant where his most famous dish, Beef Wellington, lands on tables with a sunset view as a bonus.
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Alcoa commissioners talk landfill, other infrastructure projects
Alcoa commissioners advanced several landfill expansion projects Tuesday aimed at improving efficiency and easing the strain on the more than 50-year-old facility. The Alcoa/Maryville/Blount County Landfill, located off Long Powers Road in Friendsville, accepts household garbage as well as bulkier waste, including old furniture and construction debris. Household garbage must be disposed of in more tightly regulated Class I cells designed to prevent groundwater contamination. Bulkier waste can be placed in less restrictive Class III and IV cells. Plans to expand the Class III and IV cells were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, forcing Alcoa Public Works Department officials to use more expensive Class I space for bulky waste. Permits also began to expire or were voided because of changing conditions at the site, prompting the city to pursue multiple expansion projects simultaneously. “One of the issues we had with one of the original plans was that there have been some changes to (the site) that have forced us to go back through some very, very challenging regulatory work,” City Manager Bruce Applegate said. “That’s why, rather than starting over from scratch each time, we’re trying to get all these other pieces going at the same time so