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Perfect Summer Tradition:A Dip In The Water
The Pisgah District of Pisgah National Forest was busy Tuesday with people playing in the water. (Times photos by John Lanier)... — Updated 6/24/2020 Full story
Smiles And Tribulations: This Is Africa
Editor's Note: Transylvania Times photographer Park Baker has been in Kenya since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The following is the latest on his situation. Day 95 of being stuck in... — Updated 6/22/2020
Swimmers Take The Opportunity To Beat The Heat At The Pool
It was the perfect day for an afternoon at the pool on Tuesday as members of the Brevard Racquet Club took to the water to beat the heat. The Racquet Club reopened its pool... — Updated 6/10/2020
First Family Member To Attend College Eyes Coming Home
Devin Owen's family has lived on a farm in Lake Toxaway for generations. His mother Connie's grandfather bought the land. His father James's family traces its roots in Transylvania... — Updated 6/10/2020
Stranded In Kenya: 89 Days And Counting
It has been 89 days since I have been stuck in Kenya due to the international flight ban, although, sources say, that the Kenyan government is going to lift the ban on June 9. We... — Updated 6/8/2020
Pets For Adoption
The following pets are available for adoption at the county Animal Services Department on the Old Rosman Highway. For more information, call (828) 883-3713.... — Updated 6/3/2020
My Pet World: Conditioning A Dog Around Skateboards, Fixing A Cat During A Pandemic
Dear Cathy, My eight-year-old, 80-pound boxer/pit mix reacts horribly to skateboards. I have tried everything. A recent column of yours addressed methods of stopping dog fighting. One example was spraying citronella to deescalate.... — Updated 6/3/2020
County Residents Receive Governor's Award
The N.C. Governor's Volunteer Service Awards, created by the Office of the Governor in 1979, is an annual program that recognizes outstanding volunteers in North Carolina. The... — Updated 6/1/2020
Landscaping Project Underway At Depot-Brevard NC
Things are happening at the Railroad Avenue Depot Park. The Transylvania Garden Club (TGC) has embarked on a plan to landscape the area surrounding the pedestrian bridge and other... — Updated 6/1/2020
Lighthouse Shows The Way In The Mountains - Brevard NC
Last December I began working as a construction assistant on a project on Williamson Creek that would turn out to be a beacon of light for the community during dark times. After sev... — Updated 5/29/2020
Bridge Club Members, Family Celebrate A Birthday -Brevard NC
On Sunday members of the Brevard Duplicate Bridge Club's held a caravan birthday party for one of its members, Betty Boers, who was celebrating her 97th birthday. For the big event... — Updated 5/27/2020
County To Return To The Drive-In World Saturday - Brevard NC
The drive-in movie theater began with the Theatre De Gaudalupe in Las Cruces, N.M., in 1915, where the short, silent film "Bags of Gold" was shown. Though it only lasted a year,... — Updated 5/27/2020
Veterans Honored At Davidson River Cemetery
The Davidson River Cemetery Board of Trustees and friends placed more than a hundred flags at the gravesites of veterans on Friday, May 15. The flags will be left in honor through... — Updated 5/18/2020
Mountain Skies: The Big Dipper Dominates The Far North Sky
The Stars This is a good time of the year to observe the Big Dipper, also known as the Drinking Gourd. Early in the evening, we can find it high in the north lying with the dipper... — Updated 5/18/2020
John Buford Wants To Keep On Teaching, Learning-Brevard NC
The last time Brevard College professor John Buford retired, he had no plans of slowing down. The same thing can be said for his second time around as he says goodbye to 11 years... — Updated 5/13/2020
Carter: Outdoor Education Needed More Than Ever-Brevard NC
Educators around the country are returning to their schools for the first time in weeks to carry out the chore of cleaning out their classrooms and offices, unsure of when they'll... — Updated 5/11/2020
Lake Toxaway Is The Largest Man-Made Lake In The Appalachian Mountains
A May 8, 1903, Sylvan Valley News article titled, "A Visit to Lake Toxaway" provides a vivid picture of scenery, both natural and man-made, surrounding Transylvania's Toxaway Inn... — Updated 5/11/2020
Good Deed
Recently, 8-year-old Kennedy Owen, daughter of Jonathan and Ashley Owen, a third-grade student at Pisgah Forest Elementary, made cards to take to those living at The Oaks of... — Updated 5/4/2020
Brevard Music Center To Host Drive-In Movies-Brevard NC
As soon as it receives approval by local authorities and the North Carolina Governor's office, Brevard Music Center (BMC) will launch Brevard Music Center @ The Drive-In Movies on... — Updated 4/30/2020 Full story
Cars Line Up To Provide Birthday Wishes-Brevard NC
A seemingly endless line of cars caravaned on Tinsley Road Tuesday to give Martha Tinsley a drive-by, 90th birthday greeting from a safe distance as she watched with family from... — Updated 4/29/2020
Sarah Rae St. Marie Grows Into Club's Top Job-Brevard NC
Since the day when Sarah Rae St. Marie came to the Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club as a bright new face seven years ago, she has grown with the club, climbing up the leadership... — Updated 4/27/2020
Picturing The Past: Goat Cart Photos Income Idea For Photographers
After coming across old photographs of children in small wood carts pulled by a goat Kim Anderson and Ian Dunn with the Special Collections Section of the State Archives of North... — Updated 4/27/2020
Ann DerGara Named 'Main Street Champion'- Brevard NC
Amid economic hardship in Transylvania in the early 2000s due to the loss of the county's manufacturing industry, internationally recognized artist Ann DerGara, owner of Red Wolf... — Updated 4/24/2020
