The Mountaineer

Graeme Hart, the New Zealand businessman who owns the Canton mill, may sell his international packaging holdings for $8 billion, according to Australian and New Zealand media. 

County commissioners learned last Monday the Haywood County Fairgrounds will be unable to make scheduled loan payments of nearly $40,000 this year without help from the county.

Earmarked budget appropriations of more than $26 million in the past two years and key votes against eliminating pork-barrel spending and earmarks earned fiscal conservative U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynsville, a “hostile” rating from the Council Citizens Against Government Waste.

‘I don’t trust it anymore,’ said victim who won’t return to her home

MAGGIE VALLEY— More than 40 residents of Rich Cove Road are waiting to get back in their homes following a massive mudslide that flowed 3,000 feet from the top of Buck Mountain Friday night, leaving a path 175-feet wide in some places.

MAGGIE VALLEY — There’s a new craze at Cataloochee Ski Area. Similar to a sled, but inflatable like a tube, airboards are the up and coming new thrill for snow sports enthusiasts, and now you can do it in Maggie.  

A contract to purchase the former Walmart building from RCG Ventures is not yet in place, but commissioners authorized Board Chairman Kirk Kirkpatrick to to execute the purchase no later than Friday if an agreement on terms is reached.

Road crews in Haywood County are poised to quickly salt and scrape roads when yet another winter storm hits the county.

Meteorologists predicted snow and freezing rain by Friday morning and power companies feared weather-related outages could follow.

A $28.2 million federal stimulus grant will expand broadband capacity in Western North Carolina, an action that will improve educational opportunities in Haywood County and stabilize Internet access rates for the next decade or more.

Potential problems with two underground fuel tanks that could have cost the town as much as $150,000 to correct were avoided this week.

Less than a month into its new management structure, medical care facilities in Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties operating under MedWest Health System are already showing cost savings.