Cherokee County remained in a stultifying status-quo rut with confounding government aspects like those for 116 years.
A hidebound setting choked environmental reform
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Way out west on the brink of progress
Two streams that, if they could talk, would say the Coalition is their best friend are the Valley River and Brasstown Creek.
USFS has a specialist on hand as it angles for an Upper Tellico solution
The U.S. Forest Service is refereeing a heavyweight bout between two groups. They are the nation’s off-highway vehicle enthusiasts and its brook-trout anglers.
Either way, a mountaintop vanishes from the Earth
In western North Carolina, mountaintop removal is to take out the crushed stone, and in Kentucky, it is to get the coal.
Here’s a news flash from the Cherokee County Planning Board
The Cherokee County Planning Board was working hard… This didn’t happen last week, for there’s no such board.
Cherokee County, North Carolina, gets a FIRM grip on planning for future floods
The program now underway by FEMA to draw accurate U.S. floodplain maps places this state in the forefront of better planning for deadly and destructive flooding.
It will likely be eight years before better maps of the mountains are made
Cherokee and Clay counties in the Hiwassee River watershed are NOT among 19 counties scheduled to be mapped by a 2014 target date.
Artificial slopes legislation is sidetracked, but NC budgets more for mountain mapping
Although it was aimed at regulating bad homebuilding, House Bill 1756, wasn’t even needed here in Cherokee County.
Effluent from improperly installed septic systems could travel into the Hiwassee River
Mary L. Miller’s 19 months as chair of the Cherokee County Board of Health are over, and her departure was not a voluntary one.