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Bigfoot (otherwise known as local artist Mike LaLone) poses with students at Andrews High School on July 19.

Bigfoot (otherwise known as local artist Mike LaLone) poses with students at Andrews High School on July 19.

Large ape-like creature spotted in Valley

Body Andrews — If you were at Andrews High School last week and thought you saw Bigfoot, you weren’t seeing things. Besides him.
Adam Stewart/Contributing Photographer Thunder and lightning accompanied storms on July 6 in Cherokee and Clay counties, including this loud burst captured at the end of N.C. 69.

Adam Stewart/Contributing Photographer Thunder and lightning accompanied storms on July 6 in Cherokee and Clay counties, including this loud burst captured at the end of N.C. 69.

Lighting up local skies

Monkeypox reaches N.C.

Body The N.C. Department of Health & Human Services has confirmed the first positive case of monkeypox within the state, in Haywood County.