In the East, a man drowned on the French Broad River on July 9th. The river was running high following heavy rains when four men got on the river in a small raft. The boat flipped in the vicinity of Stackhouse and one person was washed downstream to his death. http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050710/NEWS01/50709015/1001