With fall fast approaching, high school football is already underway, and in Western North Carolina there’s no bigger rivalry than the one between two Haywood County high schools. On any given Friday in small-town America the latest news about the area’s most important issues can be heard at the barber shop. “Oh, it’ll never stop, I mean, as long as there’s Tuscola and Pisgah, it’ll be here,” said David Bryson, a barber at Doug’s Barber Shop in Clyde. He’s talking about what some call one of the