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Mountain native, history buff and former AC-T Editorial Page Editor. I am currently special projects editor for the Sylva Herald. Tweets are my own.
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History: An uncomfortably close celestial call in southern Jackson County

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By Jim Buchanan Space is a busy place, filled with celestial objects bumping around. They’re always out there but from time to time get our attention more than others, and we seem to be in such a time, with the widely-discussed Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up” telling a tale of an extinction-level object menacing Earth, and with at least one very real object coming too close for comfort. On Jan.
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The shot heard ‘round the world

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The Sylva Herald will run articles from our archives as we count down to our 100-year anniversary in April. By Jim Buchanan This is a tale of a man who made history and another man who turned back time. One may not have happened without the other. The 1980-81 basketball season featured a men’s basketball squad for Western Carolina University that was a force to be reckoned with.
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As area banks tumbled, nerves were frayed in Jackson County

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| The Sylva Herald Verified
The Sylva Herald will run articles from our archives as we count down to our 100-year anniversary in April. This one was penned by former staffer Jim Buchanan in 2024. By Jim Buchanan In late 1930, many folks were waiting for boom times to begin. Many signs indicated this would happen. The economic contractions of 1920, 1923 and 1926 had averaged about 15 months in length each. The downturn of 1929, which included the stock market crash in October of that year, had run 15 months.
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