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Join Conserving Carolina on Saturday, Oct. 20, on a Members' Hike on Youngs Mountain. Located in Rutherford County near Lake Lure, Youngs Mountain is a cradle of biodiversity in the Blue Ridge...

In the preface of his book, "Shadows of the Past: Return to Reba," Ed Comer wrote, "Long before the Connestee Falls community existed, its land held pockets of hardy souls that built their homes...

They were hiking buddies, for sure, world travelers and hard-working professionals who made a life in their own backyard of Brevard so they could stay close to their aging parents. But most of all the...

Morgan Lewis Jones, 86, of Brevard and Tampa, Fla., passed away Sept. 25, 2018, at Melech Hospice House in Temple Terrace, Fla. Born Aug. 6, 1932, in Kansas City, Mo., he was the son of Otis and...

Formed many millions of years ago, the mountains of western North Carolina are home to numerous unique geologic formations, from the rocky summits of Grandfather Mountain to the serpentine barrens of...

McGann grew up in Greenville, S.C., and spent her summers in the mountains near Brevard. She graduated from Clemson University in 1996 and moved to Vail, Colo., where she skied fresh Rocky Mountain po...

The Conservation Fund and the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will host an event Sept. 6 to celebrate the opening of North Carolina's Headwaters State Forest. Located near the...

Dan Courtine Brevard Elementary After growing up in western New York, I left the snow to take a teaching position in Apex, N.C. I spent 18 1/2 years teaching 5th Grade, a K-5 math special, and being...

Robert McCarson Brevard Academy K-8 Spanish I graduated from Brevard High School in 1982 and went to college at Appalachian State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and...

Lizette Lampe Brevard Academy Special Education Teacher (EC) Lizette Lampe originally became a teacher while living in Morganton, She taught five years at Table Rock Middle School in Burke County....

Rebecca Kiel Brevard Academy EC Teacher Growing up in Transylvania County and graduating from Brevard High in 1999, I had not yet decided upon my major - but I had decided that I was going to make a d...

Kimberly Geer T.C. Henderson Second Grade I am from Fayetteville, N.C., and attended Meredith College (bachelor's in music), William and Mary (master's in reading) and East Carolina University (master...

Emily Griffin Rosman Elementary First/Second Grade Combo Class I was born and raised in Hickory. I grew up in the Caldwell County School system where I found my passion for teaching. I attended...

Personal Background I grew up in a military family that moved around several times in my youth. My mother later retired as a Major in the Army and we settled in California with the last military hop....

Tonya Treadway Pisgah Forest Elementary School 1076 Ecusta Road Brevard, NC 28712 ttreadwa@tcsnc.org (828) 877-4481 Website: pfe.tcsnc.org Twitter: @PFE_Rangers This year marks the 22nd year I have...

Rise & Shine Neighbors in Ministry is mostly known for its acclaimed after-school tutoring program focused on reading, writing and math. In the future it also may be famous for instructing scholar...

Willard Lyman Galloway, 70, passed away July 26, 2018, in Ft. Myers, Fla., after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born June 11, 1948, to Elmer and Wave Galloway, of Rosman, N.C. He graduated...

As part of the Transylvania County Tourism Development Authority's (TCTDA) ongoing effort to raise awareness about waterfall safety, inserted in this edition of The Transylvania Times is a flier...

Kim Wilson has joined the Fisher Realty sales force at the Brevard office. Wilson is from Plant City, Fla., the winter strawberry capital of the United States. She is a graduate of Carson Newman...

When my plane landed in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, after 33 hours of traveling this past January, I stepped out of the airplane and into a whole new world. I had chosen to study abroad for a...