Photos by Michelle Bradbeer/Staff Correspondent Andrews Florist brought colorful flowers to Valley View Care & Rehabilitation Center on Friday after masking up due to COVID and flu outbreak at the facility. Thanks to local residents making generous donations, 12 special tabletop flower arrangements and five vases were delivered to staff and patients Friday. Florist Christy Reeves and assistants Eloise Mason, Bethony Allen and Keyari Allen decorated the cafeteria and recreation room for patients, while the n

Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Then-Cherokee County Sheriff Dustin Smith and District Attorney Ashley Welch confer privately ahead of a press conference on the day Detention Officer Francisco Flattes was killed during an escape attempt. Welch listed that homicide among several other incidents as cause for Smith to resign.

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A nearly standing-room-only crowd came out to see a candidate forum for seats on the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners on Thursday at the Cherokee County Courthouse in Murphy.

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Bobby “Lynx” Hargrove enjoys working in the fire service and no longer wants the drugs that cost him so much in his life.

Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com This plant off of Airport Road in Marble owned by Core Scientific is undergoing an expansion to support generative artificial intelligence.

Justin Jacobs, right, chief deputy of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, will fill in for former sheriff Dustin Smith, who resigned effective Friday. At left is Chris Wood, who is running for sheriff in the March GOP primary. About a dozen people attended Saturday's special called meeting of the board of commissioners.