Forgotten Confederate soldiers who died in mountains honored
Gallatin News Examiner - Gallatin,TN,USA
... New headstones honor 113 men and boys from the 58th North Carolina Confederate Infantry out of Wautauga County, just over the Great Smoky Mountains, who died ...

Sen. Alexander: Environmentally Responsible Wind Power Act
The Chattanoogan - Chattanooga,TN,USA
... Protect America's most scenic treasures - such as the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and deny federal ...

Chase ends with collision after gas drive-off
WIS - Columbia,SC,USA
... stolen cars. A trooper says one car was wrecked on the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the suspects could face related federal charges.

Bald Head Island Rentals Launches New Website
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... Bald Head Island Rentals is the largest independently owned property management company on Bald Head Island, North Carolina. News ...

Real news, yes, impostors, no
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... a go of it with his Daily Planet, and the venerable Scott McLeod is heading up a juggernaut in the western counties with his Smoky Mountain News operation. ...

Gimme that old-time
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... Saturday. A Shape Note Singer's Gathering will be held July 8-9, and the Great Smoky Mountain Cloggers performs July 14-16. Workshops ...

Innovations of '30s, '40s celebrated in local festival
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... n EXHIBIT: Early Smoky Mountain National Park photography by Jim Thompson and Albert "Dutch" Roth, June 16-Aug. 28, Ewing Gallery. ...

Garcia just loves New York
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... Drew Evancho made the semifinals. Live-in Academy: Smoky Mountain Tennis Academy is starting a live-in academy beginning this fall. ...

Sponsor is good business for driver
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... When he was involved in a fiery crash at Smoky Mountain Speedway in April 2004, Hunt's car was destroyed. He was faced with an entire year without racing. ...

WWE DEVELOPMENTAL EMPLOYEE BILL BEHRENS TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH ...
PWinsider (press release) - USA
... You've got your own company now, Show Business, Inc. And you've worked with a variety of wrestling companies including USWA and Smoky Mountain . ...

Kaczka: Super Cup to Diadora Impact
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... The U17 Smokey Mountain Soccer Club 88-Force girls' soccer team, coached by Rex Mummey, successfully defended their State championship May 21-22 in ...

Best Dad gifts call for strategic thinking
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... Weber Smokey Mountain cooker smoker, $229, features two heavy-duty steel-plated cooking grates, a porcelain-enameled bowl and a rust-resistant fuel door. ...

Bluegrass coming to Freeport
Freeport Journal Standard - Freeport,IL,USA
... The event will feature performances from four popular bands including area favorites If We Only Knew and Smokey Mountain Haze, as well as the popular Wisconsin ...

Let your cares float away
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
... McKee added the Treetop Hideaway and the Mountain Log Lookout in 2002, and now has the ... with canopy beds and tubs for two, River of Life also has cabins for 10 ...

Getting away from all the hustle and bustle
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA
... But this year, Dove and Showlater chose a more affordable option - the cabins at Smith Mountain Lake State Park. "The rates here are cheap," Dove said. ...

Prince Gallitzin State park development spurs concern
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... at nearby Rock Run for all-terrain vehicle riding, dirt and mountain biking, and ... state park has a full-scale lodge and only about 15 offer cabins for overnight ...

POLICE BRIEFS: Car crash kills Asheville woman
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... ASHEVILLE -- A preliminary autopsy revealed Saturday that there were no obvious signs of foul play in the suspicious death of a 46-year-old man. ...

Without a water deal, new expenses could soak city
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Asheville and Buncombe County residents can expect changes to the water system on July 1, but with several scenarios for resolving the water ...

AVID gives students an academic push
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... know how to study - until she joined an enrichment program called Advancement Via Individual Determination, or AVID, her freshmen year at Asheville High School ...

Real news, yes, impostors, no
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... But I've always kind of pined for the days when there were competing newspapers in cities the size of Asheville. Competition is healthy. ...

Arrests in Sevier County for 6/11/05
The Mountain Press - Sevierville,TN,USA
... He was released. * Brian Randall Brockwell, 18, of Asheville, NC, was charged June 9 with underage consumption of alcohol. He was released on $500 bond. ...

Goodes grabs NC Amateur lead
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
ASHEVILLE - On a leaderboard dominated by gray hair and experience, a lone young man carries the banner for the younger than 30-set at the 45th NC Amateur ...

Three Tourists make SAL All-Star team
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Asheville Tourists left fielder Matt Miller, first baseman Joe Koshansky and middle relief pitcher Matt Daley were selected to represent the ...

Gatlinburg chase ends in North Carolina
The Mountain Press - Sevierville,TN,USA
... and local authorities continued to pursue the vehicle from shortly after that time until it made its way into Buncombe County, NC, near Asheville, where the ...

Budweiser Super Sportsman Championship on tap at Stateline ...
WhoWon.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
... Carlson lead Ashville NY's Mike Kosinski, Waterford Pa's Bobby Rohrer, Chris Kuschel, Brocton NY, and Scott Kuschel also from Ashville NY. ...

High lead levels found in jewelry here
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
... of lead, there's no reason to be making jewelry out of it," said Rick Maas, a professor of environmental science at the University of North Carolina-Ashville. ...

Glad You Asked: What were Sanders Tourist Cabins?
Journal Times Online - Racine,WI,USA
By Chris Bennett. I have a postcard from the late 1950s. It says, "Sanders Tourist Cabins, located 5 miles north of Racine on Highway 42.". ...

Top stories of the past week
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
... Eight brand-new cabins will be open for rentals at Lake Anna State Park beginning July 1. The two- and three-bedroom cottages--built with some of the proceeds ...

Let your cares float away
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
... Alan Peters has a pair of spacious river's edge cabins. ... Traditionally, lodging for floaters in the Ozarks meant a choice of campgrounds or rustic cabins. ...

Backers rally around widow, cabin
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... For the past 27 years, Betty Dick has spent her time hosting the Grand Lake Village theatrical group and playing bridge with her friends at her cabin in the ...

Traveling Indiana: More on Lincoln's boyhood home
Marion Chronicle Tribune - Marion,IN,USA
... The farm is a re-created pioneer homestead that includes a cabin, outbuildings, split rail fences, farm animals, vegetable and herb gardens, and field crops ...

How sandy flatland grew to host Open
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... He died in 1948. The other legendary figure was Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York's Central Park and the grounds of Biltmore Estate in Asheville. ...

Story and photos by Russell Helms
Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA
... so plentiful in fact that we actually have the luxury of being ... The Blue Trail - one of the lesser-traveled trails - traces the south ridge of Double ...

A passion for paper
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... "It's a little bit of luxury," said Lentini ... each envelope's "throat," that is, the back V-shaped ridge. ... Blue Tulip, Paoli Shopping Center, Routes 30 and 252 ...

Teens charged in car thefts
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... Officers said the four began the spree Thursday morning in South Carolina, heading to Tennessee in two stolen cars, then ended up on the Blue Ridge Parkway in ...

The gift that says `I love you, Dad' is right on 'cue
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
... Wiviott recommends the Weber Smokey Mountain cooker and the use of hardwood charcoal. Last Father's Day, my wife got me a Weber ...

"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
Broadway World - Monsey,NY,USA
... multifunctional set by Russell Metheny transforms quickly and fluidly from wagon to street scene to restaurant to farm exterior to mountain cabin complete with ...

In Passing
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... Carpenter, a longtime resident of Highland, died May 17 at his mountain cabin in Masonville, Colo. The cause of death was not available. He was 76. ...

First night of annual firefly display draws audience of nearly 600
The Mountain Press - Sevierville,TN,USA
Wooed by word that there is something weird happening late at night among the firefly beetles in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, nearly 600 people visited ...

Gatlinburg offers balance of nature and culture
Gwinnett Daily Post - Griffin,GA,USA
By Robert J. Nebel. In the Smoky Mountains, the Gatlinburg area proves that culture and nature are able to coexist. Gatlinburg, a ...

North Carolina's wilderness -- an outdoorsman's delight
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... wilderness, where you can go a day or two without seeing another hiker, is about 18 miles southwest of Fontana Dam and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. ...

Loudon County grapples with high cancer ranking
Maryville Daily Times - Maryville,TN,USA
... Franke said Loudon fits into almost a bowl shape against the side of the Smoky Mountains and pollutants get trapped and cannot escape. ...

Backers rally around widow, cabin
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Dick, and his first wife, Marilyn, owned 66.5 acres inside Rocky Mountain National Park ... ranch house, would be torn down by the park like other cabins that have ...

Roan Mountain's beauty towers among grassy balds
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... of Roan Mountain, gets 100 inches of snow a year. It has 8.5 miles of trails. You must provide your own ski equipment. The park features cabins, campground ...

Remembering Bobcat
Loveland Herald Reporter - Loveland,CO,USA
The view driving up Storm Mountain Road is almost like frames of a movie ... The scars of the fire that claimed 22 structures -- cabins, homes and trailers ...

Survival instinct still strong in New Portland
Portland Press Herald - Portland,ME,USA
... this rural town on Route 27 halfway between Farmington and Sugarloaf Mountain do what ... Tim Sullivan is building a house for himself at Seven Falls Cabins on the ...

Digging the Keweenaw
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... In the hills above Copper Harbor, the handsome log Keweenaw Mountain Lodge rents motel rooms, $85, and one- to three-bedroom log cabins, many with wood-burning ...

America's Mount Fuji both menacing and entertaining
Vancouver Province (subscription) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... buildings around Spirit Lake were buried, and more than 200 homes and cabins down river ... Nobody expected the mountain to explode laterally and with such force. ...

COAST TRAIL CLOSURES WON'T HAMPER HARDCORE CARDIO DRILL
Curry Coastal Pilot - Brookings,OR,USA
... Windy Valley is a scenic mountain meadow with a small creek. ... State Park's campground, complete with 53 electric hookup campsites and four log cabins, is open ...

Island inn opens doors to Puerto Rico
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... The cabins, are beautifully decorated with antiques and artwork, and have fully equipped ... the lake and the snow-capped mountains of the La Plata Mountain Range. ...

Wake with the animals
Sacramento Bee (subscription) - Sacramento,CA,USA
... "Once, two studs got into a fight right behind the cabins while one ... Bear, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote and deer share the setting, and riders who keep their ...

Everybody Wants to be on Survivor
WLTX.com - Columbia,SC,USA
... In addition to folks from Columbia, Lexington & Sumter, people from as far away as Atlanta, Charlotte, Ashville, and Charleston were there. ...

Herrera to join the team from Asheville
OurSports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
Taking his place on the Nut's roster will be Jonathan Herrera, promoted from the Colorado Rockies Low A affiliate in Ashville, NC. ...

A delicate dance of diplomacy
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... terrorists.". Lt. Nathan Burnore, 29, of Ashville, NC, narrowed his eyes. "You never know if they are honest with us or not," he remarked. ...

Blue Rocks game notes
OurSports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
... Greenville (SAL): Greenville scored six runs in the fourth inning and went on to win their eighth in a row with a 12-6 win over the Ashville Tourists on ...

The Pilot's Lounge #88: The Air Care Alliance -- Helping Those Who ...
AVweb - Greenwich,CT,USA
... problem six months ago.". I went to the ACA conference outside of Ashville, NC, this year and enjoyed myself hugely. It was superbly ...