COVID cluster found at church
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Macon County has crept up after a cluster was reported at a Franklin Church and new cases were identified at county schools.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Macon County has crept up after a cluster was reported at a Franklin Church and new cases were identified at county schools.
Officials with the NCDOT hope that the construction work currently snarling traffic on Georgia Road will be complete by August 2021.
As the first grading period of the 2020-21 school year comes to a close, Macon County Schools officials and families share concerns that students aren’t learning enough during their in-person/digit
Macon County voters are turning out in unprecedented numbers to cast ballots in the early voting period.
Officers with the Macon County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 12 arrested four suspects and seized methamphetamine and heroin at a home in the South Skeenah community.
The Zonta Club of Franklin came together on Oct. 10 to conduct Franklin’s first event for the Red Sand Project, an event meant to draw attention to human trafficking.
On Monday, Oct. 5, classrooms in grades K-5 all over North Carolina were given permission to return to in-person classes for four days per week.
Franklin High School has almost finished its first nine weeks of classes for the 2020-21 school year, but there are concerns that grades aren’t where they need to be.
Macon County election officials were busy this week setting up the voting site at the Robert C. Community building as the early one-stop voting period begins on Thursday, Oct. 15.
Lance Holland has lived and worked around the Nantahala River for 40 years, so he figured he knew pretty much everything there was to know about the area.