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Monday, March 18, 2024

WIC Program Provides Assistance for Eligible Women, Infants & Children (2024 Release)




Press Release (03-18-2024)

Macon County Public Health


WIC PROGRAM PROVIDES ASSISTANCE FOR ELIGIBLE WOMEN, INFANTS & CHILDREN


Franklin, NC – WIC or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program provides supplemental nutritious foods, infant formula, nutrition education, breastfeeding support and referrals to health care and community resources.  The WIC program is available at Macon County Public Health, 1830 Lakeside Drive, Franklin, NC.  You may apply for the WIC Program Monday-Friday from 8:00 am-5:00 pm.

To be eligible a person must:


• Be a pregnant woman; a breastfeeding woman who has had a baby in the last 12 months; a woman who has been pregnant in the last six months; an infant; or a child up to the fifth birthday;


• Reside in North Carolina;


• Meet income eligibility scale – the gross annual household income cannot exceed 185% of the Federal poverty income guidelines – All Medicaid, Food and Nutrition Services (SNAP) and Work First Recipients meet the WIC income eligibility criteria; and


• Have a nutritional need determined by the WIC Nutritionist.


For more information about WIC or to make an appointment please visit Macon County Public Health located at 1830 Lakeside Drive, Franklin, NC, or call 828-349-2453 or email wic@maconnc.org.  


In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.


Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.


To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-3027.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:


     1. Mail:

          U.S. Department of Agriculture

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

          1400 Independence Avenue, SW

          Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or


      2. Fax:

           (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or


      3. Email:

             Program.Intake@usda.gov


This institution is an equal opportunity provider.



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News and Weather Briefing for Monday, March 18, 2024





Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.

GENERAL OUTLOOK

Drier and cooler conditions return today into Tuesday as Canadian high pressure builds into the region. Warmer temperatures return by mid-week with continued dry weather. A low pressure system will bring cooler temperatures and rain chances back on Friday, with rain chances potentially lingering into Saturday.


• Macon County Board of Commissioners - March 2024 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]



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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Wednesday Night





Franklin Area

Today

Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.


Highlands Plateau

Today

Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the northwest 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 60. Windy.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows around 23. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the west in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.


Nantahala Area



Today

Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the west around 10 mph.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 60.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.


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Hazards



Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.


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Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.6 out of 12) today with Maple, Juniper, and Oak being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (9.1 out of 12).



Record Weather Events for March 18th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 81°F in Franklin in 1982
Lowest Temperature 4°F in Highlands in 1902
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.30 inches in Highlands in 1884 (also a state record)
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 1.5 inches in Highlands in 1958

Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of March Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 87°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-29-2020
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on 03-07-1899
Greatest Rainfall 6.61 inches in Highlands on 03-26-2021
Greatest Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-13-1993

Record Weather Events for March 18th in North Carolina

Highest Temperature 96°F in Wadesboro, Anson County in 1945
Lowest Temperature -4°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1959 /> Greatest Rainfall 5.30 inches in Highlands, Macon County in 1884
Greatest Snowfall 16.0 inches in Waynesville, Haywood County in 1936
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of March Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 98°F in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 03-27-1921
Lowest Temperature -11°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 03-03-1980
Greatest Rainfall 10.10 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 03-04-1979
Greatest Snowfall 36.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 03-13-1993




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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)

Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.

Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)

March 2024 Schedule

3-23-24---No Live Music inside. WHT (Women's History Trail) Statue dedication across the street. Frog Quarters will be open our Regular Hours for gifts and to serve Coffee & Treats.

3-30-24---Sonia Brooks & Chuck Dorling--Come hear and sing along with a gal who loves folk and popular music of the past decades. She loves to entertain and make sure that the songs are preserved and shared with all age groups. Chuck is right along with her & on his own.... singin' the blues.

Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!



WHT Sculpture Community Celebration
11 am at Women's History Park (592 E. Main Street)
See https://thunderpigblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/womens-history-trail-sculpture.html for more details.

Mountain Findings
432 Spruce Street (physical)
Highlands, North Carolina 28741
Web: MountainFindings.org

Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.









News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---

Who are the Appalachian People? | Geography Geek



'We want to preserve the history:' Cataloochee Ranch reopens after 4 years of renovations | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)



• How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending March 13 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• Under the Dome: Stein focuses on IVF, and Robinson takes on Tillis [Raleigh News and Observer]

• 'Call it Strike Three:' Mission Hospital faces 2 more federal violations for patient care [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]



---NATIONAL---

Consumers struggle to cope with rising fast food prices | WRAl-TV (Raleigh, NC)



PA county locked down for second day in a row due to armed suspects | NBC News



• Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB For Weeks [The Warzone]

• USAF Plans $28.48 Billion over 5 Years to Develop New Advanced Fighters, Drone Escorts [Air and Space Forces Magazine]

• The Fed’s Challenge: Has It Hit the Brakes Hard Enough? [Wall Street Journal]

• How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation [New York Times ]

• Biden social media case heads to Supreme Court [The Hill]

• Kari Lake wants the Supreme Court to revive her case looking to block voting machines [Politico]



International News Headlines

Iceland Volcano Eruption Update; Lava Approaches the Ocean, Could Strike Hraun | GeologyHub



What's behind the anti-government protests in Slovakia? | Focus on Europe | DW News



• Russian election: Putin claims landslide and scorns US democracy [BBC News]

• Spanish farmers protest in Madrid despite EU concessions [DW News]

• Niger's junta revokes relations with U.S. military [Africa News]

• N. Korea fires multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward East Sea: JCS [Yonhap News Agency]

• Just how big is India’s 2024 election? Find out in seven numbers [Al Jazeera]

• Netanyahu Rejects Schumer’s Call for New Israel Elections as ‘Totally Inappropriate’ [Wall Street Journal]

---International Conflicts ---

The Collapse of Russian Arms Exports - Competitors, Ukraine & The Future of Russian Exports | Perun





Meet the Press full broadcast – March 17| NBC News



Face The Nation: Krishnamoorthi, Gallagher, Swisher | March 17, 2024



YM Witness Takes Out Four Container Cranes While Docking in Turkey | What's Going on With Shipping?



Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, March 15, 2024



2024 Campaign Trail: More Biden & Trump Delegate Wins | C-SPAN



Washington Today (3-15-24): Prosecutor resigns in Trump GA election interference case after ruling | C-SPAN



Global National: March 17, 2024 | 6 Ottawa murder victims of suburban home laid to rest



ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - March 17, 2024


"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | March 17, 2024


NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 17 | NBC News


PBS NewsHour full episode, (March 17, 2024)



---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---

Betelgeuse Is Being Strange Again! But We Have Some New Answers | Anton Petrov



• The Sky This Week from March 15 to 22: A conjunction of Venus and Saturn [Astronomy Magazine]

• This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 15– 24 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]

The Level1 Show March 15 2024: A Costly Moose-take | Level1 Techs



Gaming Ubiquity - DTNS 4725 | Daily Tech News Show



Consistently Inconsistent Assistant - Android Faithful #35 | Cordkillers



The Value of Open Source AI // AI Inside 8 | Yellowgold Studios







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On This Day

March 18th is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 288 days remain until the end of the year.



Historical Events

(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)




37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor.

1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead.

1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.

1241 – First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.

1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.

1438 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of the Romans.

1571 – Valletta is made the capital city of Malta.

1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.

1644 – The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.

1673 – English lord John Berkeley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers

1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.

1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.

1793 – The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.

1793 – Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.

1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.

1848 – The premiere of Fry's Leonora in Philadelphia is the first known performance of an grand opera by an American composer.

1848 – March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.

1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.

1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.

1874 – The Hawaiian Kingdom signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.

1898 – Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, becomes first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering.

1902 – Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.

1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.

1915 – World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.

1921 – The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.

1921 – The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.

1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.

1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.

1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.

1937 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.

1938 – Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.

1940 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.

1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.

1944 – Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.

1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split.

1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.

1959 – The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.

1962 – The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.

1965 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

1966 – United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashes on approach to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 30 people.

1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.

1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.

1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

1971 – Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.

1980 – A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.

1990 – Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.

1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1996 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.

1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.

2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.

2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-three people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.

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Published at 5:00am on Monday, March 18, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins


Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center. 


Sunday, March 17, 2024

Weekend Weather Briefing for Sunday, March 17, 2024





Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.

GENERAL OUTLOOK

temperatures. Drier and cooler conditions will return early next week as Canadian high pressure builds into the Carolinas. Warmer temperatures return by mid-week with lingering dry conditions. A low pressure system will bring rain chances back on Friday.


• Macon County Board of Commissioners - March 2024 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]



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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Tuesday Night





Franklin Area

Today

Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight

Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.

Monday

Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows around freezing.


Highlands Plateau

Today

Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tonight

Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday

Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the northwest 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs near 50.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows around freezing.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight

Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph.

Monday

Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 30s.


Nantahala Area



Today

Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight

Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph.

Monday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs near 50.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 30s.


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Hazards



Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.


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Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.6 out of 12) today with Maple, Juniper, and Oak being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.2 out of 12).



Record Weather Events for March 17th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 82°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2016
Lowest Temperature 6°F in Highlands in 1916
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.10 inches in Franklin in 1880
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 3.3 inches in Highlands in 1915

Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of March Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 87°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-29-2020
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on 03-07-1899
Greatest Rainfall 6.61 inches in Highlands on 03-26-2021
Greatest Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-13-1993

Record Weather Events for March 17th in North Carolina

Highest Temperature 93°F in Louisburg, Franklin County in 1945
Lowest Temperature 2°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2017 /> Greatest Rainfall 5.60 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1990
Greatest Snowfall 5.7 inches in Asheville, Buncombe County in 1936
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of March Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 98°F in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 03-27-1921
Lowest Temperature -11°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 03-03-1980
Greatest Rainfall 10.10 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 03-04-1979
Greatest Snowfall 36.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 03-13-1993




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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)

Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.

Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)

March 2024 Schedule

3-23-24---No Live Music inside. WHT (Women's History Trail) Statue dedication across the street. Frog Quarters will be open our Regular Hours for gifts and to serve Coffee & Treats.

3-30-24---Sonia Brooks & Chuck Dorling--Come hear and sing along with a gal who loves folk and popular music of the past decades. She loves to entertain and make sure that the songs are preserved and shared with all age groups. Chuck is right along with her & on his own.... singin' the blues.

Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!



WHT Sculpture Community Celebration
11 am at Women's History Park (592 E. Main Street)
See https://thunderpigblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/womens-history-trail-sculpture.html for more details.

Mountain Findings
432 Spruce Street (physical)
Highlands, North Carolina 28741
Web: MountainFindings.org

Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.











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On This Day

March 17th is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 289 days remain until the end of the year.



Historical Events

(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)




45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.

180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius.

455 – Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire; he forces Licinia Eudoxia, the widow of his predecessor, Valentinian III, to marry him.

1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.

1400 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.

1776 – American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.

1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy.

1824 – The Anglo-Dutch Treaty is signed in London, dividing the Malay archipelago. As a result, the Malay Peninsula is dominated by the British, while Sumatra and Java and surrounding areas are dominated by the Dutch.

1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand Wars.

1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.

1862 – The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna was officially opened.

1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.

1921 – The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.

1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.

1945 – The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.

1948 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.

1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".

1957 – A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.

1958 – The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.

1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

1963 – Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.

1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.

1968 – As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.

1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.

1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.

1988 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.

1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.

1992 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.



1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.

2000 – Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.

2003 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

2004 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.

2016 – Rojava conflict: At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.

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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, March 17, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins


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