Regional land trust celebrates 50,000 acres protected FOOTHILLS—Conserving Carolina, a regional land trust, has surpassed a ...

Polk County’s cross country teams continued their 2025 campaign Saturday at the Freedom Invitational, with both squads ...

TRYON—If you were someone who regularly picked up a copy of New York’s Village Voice or Chicago Reader, chances are you’ve ...

Now that we are focused on how much land the approaching herd of cookie-cutter homebuilders is threatening to gobble up, ...

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, ...

Search prompts heightened security measures at local schools LANDRUM—On Thursday, September 25, three Landrum schools were ...

TRYON—September is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. Parker Mullinax’s art class at Tryon Elementary School has again graced the ...

FOOTHILLS—Saturday marks one year after Hurricane Helene brought a wave of destruction to our home. On Friday, September 27, ...

Members of Polk County 4-H brought home numerous honors from this year’s Mountain State Fair, which ran from September 5 to ...

LANDRUM—Jacksons Grove Methodist Church welcomed members, friends, and neighbors on Sunday, September 21, for its annual ...

Tractor-trailers collide into back of ambulance after initial crash POLK COUNTY—On Thursday, September 25, a multiple-vehicle ...

Randy Wayne Whitener Jr. arrested on $450,000 bond POLK COUNTY—A Rutherford County man well known in the professional bull ...