 01/01/10 Associated PressTim Tompkins, president of Times Square Alliance, Susan Bloom, director of corporate communications, Phillips Lighting Company, and Jeffrey Straus, president of Countdown Entertainment, from left to right, react as the numbers 'one' and 'zero' are lit up by energy...
 01/01/10 Last night, confetti rained down as crowds rang in the New Year. And now it's the Sanitation Department's job to clean it all up. Send Us Your New Year Photos!
 01/01/10 Hundreds of thousands of revelers in chilly weather in Times Square cheered when the crystal ball covered with more than 32,000 bulbs dropped at midnight, ushering in the new decade that many hope will be better than the last.
 01/01/10 Revelers across the globe at least temporarily shelved worries about the future to bid farewell to "The Noughties." In New York, hundreds of thousands of revelers in chilly weather in Times Square cheered when an 11,875-pound crystal ball covered with more than 32,000 bulbs dropped at midnight.
 01/01/10 Hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered in chilly weather Thursday in Times Square to usher in the new decade as organizers prepared to drop 3,000 pounds of confetti at midnight along with the New Year's Eve crystal ball.
 01/01/10 NEW YORK (AP) - The crystal ball has dropped and confetti has showered the crowd of hundreds of thousands of revelers in Times Square who are greeting 2010 with cheers.
 11/11/09 The Town of Waynesville has reeled in a $240,000 grant from the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center for Haywood Vocational Opportunities to renovate the old Wellco site in the Hazelwood neighborhood.
 10/26/09 Classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will perform at the Ada Public Library on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 6 p.m.
 10/02/09 FILE/Kansas City StarThe Appalachian region delights craft shoppers with hand-woven scarves and tablecloths, blown-glass cream and sugar sets, hand-forged jewelry, hand-dyed yarns, carved crèche sets, beadwork, handmade hearth tools and more.
 08/14/09 Micah Rice named USA Cycling National Events Director Micah Rice to take the reins as National Events Director USA the national governing body.
 08/07/09 Sylva driver Justin Woodard strengthened his track points lead by winning the 2009 Mid-Season Mini Stock Championship at Tri-County Race Track in Brasstown. | 
