Sylva, North Carolina

How A Town Got Its Name

Webster – Twilight was slipping down on the little mountain village and fate was trudging along the road that wound up out of the valley to the east. Oil lamps were beginning to wink from windows among the thinly scattered houses along the wagon-rutted, red clay street. A [...]

Land Conservation Groups Protect NC Acreage

The High Country Press is reporting the following.

The Blue Ridge Conservancy and National Committee for the New River recently announced achievements in land conservation. The N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund provided funding for two local projects.

Blue Ridge Conservancy John and Faye Cooper, owners of Mast General Store, have donated a conservation easement [...]

8th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition Finalists Announced

I am running behind on putting this out on the site. But for all of you in the High Country the exhibition will run the rest of the month. For the rest of us the voting on the People’s Choice will run through April 1 online…

Exhibition Opens on Friday, February 4th

January 27 , [...]

Two Land-Conservation Groups Plan To Merge

BOONE – Two land-conservation organizations that, between them, have protected more than 15,000 acres in Northwest North Carolina are merging, officials said yesterday.

Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust, based in West Jeffer­son, and High Country Conservancy, based in Boone, are joining to form a new organization called Blue Ridge Conservancy.

The merger will help the [...]