Macon County News Archives

The Beaver Lake pool site is relatively small - an acre of pool and park that a landowner had made available to the public in the 1930s and '40s. Yet the memories it taps are deep-spreading and fond.

While it doesn't seem like much of a news flash, it has emerged as one of the top concerns in Macon County economic development circles: the workforce is aging.

The North Carolina Community Foundation on behalf of the Macon County Community Foundation has awarded a $1,000 grant to Angel Medical Center's Medication Assistance Program.

More than $15 million in federal stimulus money will help the National Forests in North Carolina repair historic structures, improve recreation, restore native habitats and improve foresters' abilities to fight fires in Western North Carolina.

A 14-year-old boy suffered head injuries after falling from Triple Falls in DuPont State Forest this afternoon.

At a forum on Macon County's move to begin working on a comprehensive plan to address future growth, the presenter focused on the what, the how and the why.

'The true history of the Carolina Mountaineers has never been written,' Judge Felix E. Alley of Jackson County wrote in his 1941 book, 'Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer.' The book is now considered scarce.

Another story on budget cuts, this time in Macon County NC; Fontana Regional Library made a request from the town's non-profit funding pool in the amount of $12,000 for the library system's Reading Rover Bookmobile service.

A man who died rescuing his son from a North Carolina waterfall got his leg stuck in a hole and drowned, according to the Highland Fire and Rescue Department.

At one recent place that Scotty Corbin's group, The Overlook Theatre Company, performed, there were more spaces reserved for books than spectators.