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WEB4 days ago · Massive widespread flooding has Haywood on lockdown. Flooding overnight and into Friday morning caused massive destruction from one end of Haywood County to the other — exceeding even the worst possible scenario most had imagined. Flooding is not limited to the Pigeon River from Cruso to Canton. …
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WEBFlooding washes out bridges and roads in Cruso and Bethel. Sep 28, 2024. While widespread catastrophic flooding across Haywood topped the severity of the 2021 or 2004 floods, in Cruso it fell short of the fury unleashed in 2021 — when a flash flood likened to a wall of water killed six people and left utter destruction in its wake. +2.
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WEBMay 31, 2023 · Lightning strikes, dog-walking trail, tax collections and other county business. Aug 8, 2020. Lightning struck the Haywood County Health and Human Services building on Paragon Parkway, causing as much as $25,000 of damage to the air con….
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‘Complete devastation’: Canton ravaged by the worst flood yet
WEBSep 28, 2024 · That’s how Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers described the flooding unleashed by the Pigeon River on Friday. Indeed, even for this battle-hardened town that’s been through it before — once in 2004 and once in 2021 — the utter destruction was the worst yet. The river crested higher, and thus the footprint was larger, than previous floods.
Flooding washes out bridges and roads in Cruso and Bethel
WEBSep 28, 2024 · A landslide deposited two large boulders in the middle of U.S. 276 about 1.5 miles past Springdale Resort. Rodney Vance lives on steep hill in Cruso, and while rain came down in torrents, he was high enough up to escape flooding. “Water was coming down from everywhere. The river was up in the road. You couldn’t go nowhere,” Vance said.
Man dies from self-inflicted gunshot, friends and family mourn …
WEBAug 30, 2024 · 0. 1 of 2. IN MEMORY — Friends and family are grieving the loss of Shelton James Albert, who they described as a kind soul. A Haywood man is dead after visiting his ex-girlfriend at work, fleeing from police and then turning a gun against himself on late Thursday afternoon. The police chase along Russ Avenue in Waynesville ended with the ...
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WEBSep 11, 2024. The second annual ‘Pigs in a Blanket’ festival benefiting Misfit Mountain animal rescue will be held from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. …. Sep 9, 2024. Haywood Community College will hold the second annual Dahlia Ridge Trail Run on Saturday, Sept. 14. This 5K is a timed, family-friendly walk/r….
New book explores life and legacy of moonshiner Popcorn Sutton
WEBMar 31, 2021 · THE MOONSHINER — On April 2, Neal Hutcheson releases his new book, ‘The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton,’ a biography and collection of photographs and interviews detailing the life and legacy of Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton. LEGACY — Popcorn Sutton was a moonshiner from Haywood County who remains a figure of public intrigue 12 years after his ...