After nearly a decade at the helm of Waynesville government, Town Manager Rob Hites announced Feb. 27 that he will retire July 1.
Hites arrived in 2016 following a long career in local government across North Carolina. Born in Reno and raised in Alabama, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. An urban government course led to an internship with the Greensboro mayor, setting him on a path that would lead to decades of local government administration.
After Greensboro, Hites attended graduate school at American University in Washington, D.C., and began working full-time for the General Accounting Office. He was then selected to help set up the Federal Election Commission as one its first 16 employees…