When it comes to the 2021 classic rivalry game in Haywood — the Pisgah/Tuscola football clash — it’s likely the most memorable tidbit will be that it went as well as it did.
Our View
To attend a basketball game in a packed gymnasium or recall a football stadium filled beyond capacity during a Pisgah/Tuscola rivalry game, it would be easy to predict that high school athletics would be one of the most well-supported activities in Haywood County.
Haywood County sports fans are understandably focused on a Feb. 26 event — the upcoming Pisgah/Tuscola football rivalry game.
It’s too bad the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services didn’t have people on staff like Greg Shuping, Haywood’s long-time emergency services director who recently stepped down and his interim replacement Travis Donaldson.
Someone needs to tell Madison Cawthorn to put the shovel down.
As Joe Biden assumes the presidency today, he does so with many in the nation believing he is not the rightful winner of the presidency.
This year’s Holiday Challenge to readers of The Mountaineer is a clear indication of pure goodness and generosity of people who live in Haywood County.
Christmas Day will be here Friday and we wanted to take this opportunity to express our gratitude for the blessing we have been given to serve as your hometown newspaper.
In times of a national crisis, Americans have been asked to make personal sacrifices for the good of all.
It seems like being heard and listening are two different things these days. The two are inextricably entwined. Conversation — and problem solving — is a two-way street.
From the Editor
Two meetings last week got me thinking about entrenched ways of looking at issues and how much different — and better — our society might be if we could break away from those mindsets.
Guest Columns
The Biden Administration has identified addressing climate change – specifically, global warming - as one of its top priorities. Indeed, they are incorporating climate change into both their foreign and economic policies.
On behalf of the Haywood County Health Department, I wanted to write and thank every individual and organization in the community that has reached out with letters, calls, and gestures of support and appreciation during the COVID-19 vaccination effort.
spotlight
In what many consider Jesus’ “inauguration” speech early in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims to his fellow hometown faithful that he has been anointed by the Lord “to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the prisoners, and recovery of sight to the blind, to liberate the oppress…
Our “Breakfast Club” started having breakfast together in 2006 just because we went to the same place, The Smoky Mountain Café, at the same time.
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Q: How many people in Groups 1 and 2 are on a waiting list in Haywood County and how many doses are being received each week for the first shot? This information would be helpful to us in understanding the wait times. Gary Arrington
(Editor's note: Opinion columns in The Mountaineer are strictly the view of the author and are placed in the "Opinion" section online.)
Once an obscure section of the Pleasant Hill Cemetery where slaves were buried is becoming a vision of beauty and peacefulness.
There is a proposal in Washington to more than double the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
(Editor's note: Opinion columns in The Mountaineer are strictly the view of the author and are placed in the "Opinion" section online.)
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