Dillsboro welcomes spring with Habitat for Humanity Bloom and Build

The third annual Spring Bloom and Build festival brought thousands to the Dillsboro, North Carolina train depot on an unseasonably warm April 1. The festival was sponsored by Habitat for Humanity of Macon and Jackson County, along with students taking the Hospitality and Tourism 436 class – Tourism Planning and Development of WCU. Bloom and Build is a […]

Celebrate Earth Day like a local

Smell of funnel cake and sounds of bluegrass mixed with jazz and fiddle  filled up downtown Sylva,  Saturday, April 26, to celebrate the Greening up the Mountains Festival . “It started out as an Earth Day festival, and this is the 17th one. It’s always the fourth Saturday in April,” said Paige Roberson, Sylva town […]