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Sylva leaders share their goals for new year
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Sylva OKs resolution to change Jacksons
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Sylva endorses county namesake change Walter S. Jackson.
The Town of Sylva joined the Village of Forest Hills last week in formerly supporting a request from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to substitute former Principal Chief Walter S. Jackson for former President Andrew Jackson as Jackson County’s namesake.
With a 4-1 vote, the body passed a resolution in favor of the change during its Dec. 10 meeting. Commissioner Mary Gelbaugh provided the sole opposing vote.
“On Oct. 29, unanimously the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians passed a resolution requesting that the namesake of Jackson County be changed from former President Andrew Jackson to Walter S. Jackson, who by my reading was quite a remarkable individual and someone very important to the tribe,” said Commissioner Ben Guiney, who introduced the resolution.
Greening Up the Mountains moved to summer
The beloved Greening Up The Mountains Festival will once again be absent from its traditional date of the last Saturday in April but the Sylva Board of Commissioners has pledged that the event will take place in 2021.
“It is called Greening Up The Mountains, but I do feel like April is too soon,” said Commissioner David Nestler. “Moving it back to later in the year when we’re confident that a vaccine will be more widespread seems like a safe bet to me.”
The event has taken place for 22 continuous years, and 2020 was slated to be the 23