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Nikwasi Initiative names executive director
Lee Buchanan
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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The Nikwasi Initiative has found its first executive director, a woman from Oregon with a track record of championing cultural heritage and working with Native American tribal leaders.
Pandemic isolation spurs artist’s burst of creativity
Jake Browning
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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Jon Houglum’s studio at Cowee School is empty.
Home gardening growing in coronavirus shutdown
Andy Scheidler
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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When Amy Ballard wants green beans, she goes downstairs and grabs a jar that she canned last year that were grown in her garden.
Despite coronavirus, Community Care paramedics find ways to care for in-home patients
Lee Buchanan
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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With the coronavirus and social isolating limiting their ability to make in-home visits, Community Care paramedics have managed to continue to care for homebound patients and even find other ways t
Farmers adapt to coronavirus impacts
Andy Scheidler
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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Joe Deal, along with his wife, sons and daughters, plucked fresh strawberries Tuesday morning after a brief rain shower subsided.
COVID-19 cases hold at two, but health officials urge caution
Lee Buchanan
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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Macon County is holding steady in the coronavirus pandemic, with two confirmed cases and one death from COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
McGaha takes reins as health director at challenging time
Lee Buchanan
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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Kathy McGaha, who has been named Macon County’s new director of public health, is taking over a department where she has worked for 23 years in a wide variety of roles.
Heavy rain triggers flooding, mudslides
Lee Buchanan
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
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Emergency officials are still assessing the damage after torrential rainfall swamped Macon County in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 12, triggering mudslides and flooding that forced the e
Macon has second case of COVID-19
Lee Buchanan
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
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A second Macon County resident has tested positive for COVID-19.