One of Franklin’s greatest-ever golf careers is at an end.

The Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau is looking to expand into Franklin and is eying the soon-to-be-emptied Bartram Academy building as its destination. Carmen Waite, the club’s CEO, attended the ...

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Education in particular will see significant cuts from local funding requests in the 2026-27 county budget. Macon County Schools and Southwestern Community College were both topics of discussion at a ...

The Fontana Regional Library (FRL) Board met for its bi-monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 13, at the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library discussing topics including the distribution of net ...

Kamden Reis competes in the long jump at the Mountain Eight Conference Championships at North Henderson April 30. The junior was named the meet’s Women’s Field Event MVP, placing first in the long ...

Press photo/Shelby Powell - Mark Masters of Masters Architecture proposed four options to build a new Highlands soccer field, ranging in cost from $1 million to $3.4 million to build an Astroturf ...

Guests, friends and family, crowded into Discover Church Friday, May 29, to celebrate the 37 graduates from Bartram Academy. Prior to the ceremony, Hayden Perez said he was nervous about his role in ...

Another good year is in the books for Panther sports. On May 28, Franklin High School athletes, coaches and family members gathered in the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts for the ...

Because Main Street is owned by the N.C. Department of Transportation, they will need to be involved in any proposed changes and give approval. DOT is scheduled to pave Main Street in 2028, and the ...

The new pickleball courts, a long-awaited project coming to the Macon County Rec Park, finally has a start date coming the second week of July.Pickleball players have been asking for ...