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Biden’s American Rescue Plan means millions for NC local governments President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) on March 11. whitehouse.gov photo While most Americans are looking forward to receiving the $1,400 payments included in President Joe Biden’s $1.88 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) passed by Congress on March 6, counties and towns across the country are also eagerly awaiting a stimulus package of their own. “A major part of this package is related to direct help to local municipal governments,” said Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers, who is also chair of the Southwestern Commission, a consortium of local governments in North Carolina’s seven westernmost counties. “I’ve never known a time where there would be such a direct payment. With that comes a lot of excitement, but a lot of unknowns, and this is going to kickstart dynamic conversations on how to spend that money.” ....
Lost to mountain, Japanese internee s bones return home BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 27 1of27Lilah Matsumura, 11, prays for for her great-grandfather, Giichi Matsumura, during a memorial service at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Giichi Matsumura, who died in the Sierra Nevada on a fishing trip while he was at the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, was reburied in the same plot with his wife 75 years later after his remains were unearthed from a mountainside grave.Jae C. Hong/APShow MoreShow Less 2of27Lori Matsumura visits the cemetery at the Manzanar National Historic Site near Independence, Calif., Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. Matsumura s father and his family were among the more than 10,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II. Her grandfather, Giichi Matsumura, died when he left the camp to explore the nearby high Sierra in 1945. Hikers disc ....
Haywood vaccine clinic moves to Lambuth Inn Key Updates: Haywood County’s Mass Vaccination clinic will move this week to a new temporary location at the Lambuth Inn at Lake Junaluska due to a scheduling conflict at the Smoky Mountain Event Center. A separate press release on this change will be forthcoming. As always, this clinic is only for those with an appointment. Where to find COVID-19 vaccine information: For vaccine appointment or registration questions call: 828-356-2019 Please do not call the health department’s main number for COVID-19 vaccination questions, use the hotline number instead. Vaccinations by the numbers: ....
Trump is a threat To the Editor: The other day a friend of mine made this remark: “I never want to hear Trump supporters mention morality (as in the Moral Majority) again. They have bowed down to his steady stream of lies as though the rest of us merely have to accept lying as a way of life in America.” Another said, ”Do people not see the blatant hypocrisy in chanting ‘Lock her up!’ about Hillary Clinton’s peripheral role in the tragic deaths in Benghazi while they tolerate Donald Trump’s central role in inciting an insurrection that resulted in a violent break-in and multiple deaths in the Capitol of the United States of America?” ....
HCA/Mission monitor to hold webinar Gibbins Advisors is scheduling an informational online meeting open to all communities in Western North Carolina served by Mission Health. The webinar will take place at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 7. Gibbins Advisors is the Independent Monitor (IM) hired to monitor HCA Healthcare’s compliance with the obligations it agreed to when it purchased Mission Health System. This is a “refresher” from last year’s seven in-person community meetings. In the webinar, the IM team will discuss its role, provide an update on its work, and present the opportunity to ask questions. Those interested in participating can register at the following link: https://www.independentmonitormhs.com/register ....