Thomas Sherrill/reporter@thefranklinpress.com Book it: The new Nantahala Community Library at 36B White Oak Lane in Topton opened Monday.
Photos by Sam Jokich/Staff Correspondent Patrick Canizio of Murphy has created a large greenhouse full of fruits and vegetables.
Photos by Anngee Quinones-Belian/Staff Correspondent RRG Roofing offered freebie swag at the Home & Garden Show over the weekend in Young Harris, Ga.
Nicole Wright/Staff Correspondent Artist Emory Nolan (right) discusses his painting “Dandy Dandies” with newly appointed Cherokee Chamber of Commerce ambassador Winkie Styles (left) while attending the chamber’s After Hours event Friday at the Cherokee County Arts Council in downtown Murphy. While Nolan has been in the area for two years, Styles has been in the area for 22 years.
Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com A pickup truck traveling at high speed drifted from its lane and rear-ended a tractor-trailer on U.S. 64 about a mile east of the Tennessee line.
Stacy Van Buskirk/Staff Correspondent Katie Pressley of Brasstown polishes a piece of agate. The machine has nine parts and polishes the stone with grits going from 80 to 80,000. Pressley has been a lapidary artist for four years and a rockhound for most of her life.
Anngee Quinones-Belian/Staff Correspondent The new wayside Unicoi Turnpike sign was unveiled on July 13, at the L&N Depot in Murphy with about 50 people on hand. The Unicoi Turnpike was one of the removal routes out of North Carolina for the Cherokees in 1838.
Nantahala residents gathered Saturday to raise the flags at the new Nantahala Community Library, which is also home to the Nantahala Community Development Club.
Cannon Crompton/sports@cherokeescout.com The Erlanger primary care clinic in Andrews is at 2751 U.S. 19 Business, offering therapy and a psychiatrist.
Sara Taylor, a new patrol officer with the Murphy Police Department, was sworn in on June 24 by Mayor Tim Radford. Her proud parents, Michael and Alice Attard, look on as Sara takes the oath.