The Mountaineer

Anyone who is not aware of the variety of programs and fitness equipment available at Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center will have the opportunity to tour the facility from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 5, at no cost.

The owner of a pit bull who attacked a girl in January will spend at least the next 12 consecutive weekends in the Haywood County Jail after pleading to a felony assault charge Tuesday.

The integration agreement among Haywood Regional, WestCare and Carolinas HealthCare System is about 200 pages, but it outlines how the affiliation will look after Jan. 1. 

Bryan Hickman awoke Tuesday morning to some unusual behavior from his cat, Leroy.

Around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, Leroy jumped on Hickman’s bed with an insatiable meow.

Tuscola sporting events, it’s not hard to spot Dalton Moore.

He is the one with a long grey beard, tall hat and overalls, dancing for the crowd on a Friday night at a football game.

With a new operating company and affiliation just around the corner, those in the Haywood County medical community are generally optimistic about the hospital’s future. 

During a year where Haywood County’s tourism revenue was down for seven months straight, including a 21 percent dip in May, a welcome uptick in September was more than offset by an October rock slide that closed Interstate 40 to Tennessee and left the tourism economy reeling.

Four-year-old finds disemboweled feline hanging from noose

A 26-year-old man from the Bethel area is in police custody on charges of animal cruelty, accused of gutting a cat and hanging the carcass from a neighbor’s mailbox. 

While the circumstances were different, the stories were virtually the same for the several hundred job applicants that started lining up in front of the state Employment Security Commission at 5 a.m. Monday. All wanted a steady, good-paying job that included benefits.

Members of the Smoky Mountain Local 507, the labor union for Evergreen Packaging employees, early last week passed local supplements for a five-year labor contract that included a nearly 12 percent wage increase throughout the duration of the contract.