A local offers a 2025 update on recovery efforts post Hurricane Helene Life – in many ways – has returned to normal. Or it is in the process of returning to normal. I’m about a 15-minute drive from the Nolichucky River where serious flooding and damage occurred. So for some of us, it’s possible to go a few days without
A Local Offers Tips on What Not To Do at Biltmore Estate In the mountains of Western North Carolina stands America’s answer to Versailles the one in France, not Kentucky. An opulent mansion built by the grandson of one of America’s great robber barons, Biltmore stands as a beautiful testament to vision, persistence and the power of obscene amounts of
Local takes a look at current conditions of NC, TN one month after a devastating hurricane As we approach the one-month “anniversary” of the biblical flooding in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Helene, the mountains and their people are in various stages of recovery. Things are back to business in some places like Gatlinburg
Rumors are starting to get in the way of recovery efforts post Hurricane Helene. In this article, we set the record straight It was late Friday morning, the 27th of September, and the world – at least the world in the mountains – was under siege by a torrent of rainfall that was nearly apocalyptic in scope. Leaders on all
A timeline of events that outlines what happened in Tennessee, North Carolina during Hurricane Helene and how you can help As someone who once lived in South Alabama, just outside the danger zone when Hurricane Katrina came ashore, I thought maybe the comparisons were a tad hyperbolic, at first. But as someone who once again lives just a few miles
A local compares two popular mountain towns, Gatlinburg, TN and Asheville, NC While we don’t want to speak in generalities, there are some pretty obvious differences between the cultures of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. As someone who has lived in East Tennessee and driven across the mountains to visit North Carolina, those differences seem stark to me. In