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Pride festival and parade comes to downtown Waynesville and Frog Level
A first-of-it’s-kind for Haywood County, a Pride festival will be held in the Frog Level district of downtown Waynesville on Saturday, June 29, kicking of with a Pride parade down Main Street. Pride on Main will start with speeches from community leaders at 10 a.m. at the historic courthouse.
Thunder in the Smokies rolls into Maggie Valley
Parkway riders and Sunday drivers be advised, the Thunder in the Smokies motorcycle rally is returning to Maggie Valley for its summer gathering June 28-30. The rally will take place at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds, but expect to see and hear motorbikes across Haywood County all weekend. The event includes bike shows, vendors, live music, cash prizes, and group rides. The ever-popular bike games will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29. Live music starts at 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Confirmed: Strange debris found in western NC part of SpaceX spacecraft
It's official: Debris found littered across several places in western North Carolina were part of a SpaceX spacecraft that broke apart during re-entry. A statement from NASA Public Affairs on Thursday, June 20, confirmed what many had wondered for weeks. "SpaceX has confirmed the re-entry of Dragon spacecraft trunk hardware...
Odd Space Debris Scattered Across Western North Carolina Has Been Identified
It’s finally been confirmed. Odd space debris scattered across Western North Carolina has been identified. According to our source, WLOS in Asheville, the debris is part of a SpaceX spacecraft that “broke apart during re entry”. Odd Space Debris Scattered Across Western North Carolina. This sounds like...
Waynesville Soda Jerks: Southern Appalachia in a Bottle
Chris Allen and Megan Brown started Waynesville Soda Jerks in 2013 as a farmers market booth in Haywood County. At the time, they were both in the entrepreneurship program at Haywood Community College. “We were simply looking for something fun to do that summer and started what we, in hindsight, lovingly call our ‘adult lemonade stand,’” says Allen, vice president of the company. “We were frequent shoppers at our local farmers market, located just a couple blocks walk from our apartment. The market, a strip of pavement that in the heat of summer could become unbearably hot, offered nothing to drink. We had been toying with making sodas at home with a simple home carbonation system and we took that idea and scaled it for the farmers market.”
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