Clay County News

Gabrielle Schroeder, a senior at Carolina Day School, has been honored as one of only five students in North Carolina to receive the 2009 National Council of Teachers of English certificate as a superior writer.

The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission on Tuesday could approve a new liquor store in Arden that is the subject of a turf battle.

CGR Investments, Inc. sold 1.12 acres, Lot 11 in HayesvilleTownship to Davd W. & Karla J. Sowell for $ 73,000 on November 2, 2009.

The Clay County Communities Revitalization Association held its annual meeting on October 29 with a potluck supper at the Hayesville First United Methodist Church.A Various speakers from the association described its accomplishments for the past year, and members voted on a new slate of officers for 2010.A Dr.

Nothing like a Rainy Dreary Halloween Night to get everyone out, we had an amazing turn out for Trick or Treat on the Square this year even with the yucky weather.

North Carolina continues to have a high unemployment rate with two-thirds of the counties in the state running into double digits.

Brenda Kay Ledford received the 2009 Paul Green Multimedia Award for her poetry book, SACRED FIRE, from North Carolina Society of Historians at the History Place in Morehead City, NC, during their awarda s ceremony in October.

Five schools districts in Eastern Carolina are among the top ten in the state for their graduation rate.

Four Western North Carolina school districts will be honored by State Superintendent June Atkinson on Monday in Raleigh for having high rates of high school graduation.

A man accused of breaking into a home and raping a woman while her infant son lay beside her in bed said the sex with his accuser was consensual.

Authorities have charged the former director of the Clay County Chamber of Commerce with breaking into a home and raping a woman while her infant lay beside her in bed.

People pushing to approve alcohol sales in Clay County promoted the change as a way to make money in tight times, and few could have made a better argument than Bert Wiley.

AmeriCorps helps Rural Life Center Hinton Rural Life Center in Clay County recently welcomed a group from AmeriCorps' National Civilian Community Corps.

The wreckage of a missing plane containing the body of the pilot was located today in a rugged area of the mountains of North Carolina.

PISGAH FOREST Gov. Bev Perdue this morning announced that $4 million in federal funding is likely headed for 16 projects in Western North Carolina.