Bill Belian/Contributing Photographer The Andrews Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner meeting was held June 20 in Andrews United Methodist Church’s fellowship hall. The room was filled with folks wanting to know what the chamber and town accomplished last year and have planned for the next fiscal year.

Many different organizations and businesses came together to assist veterans with their benefits at Tri-County Community College on June 14.

Saturn is the planet of restriction, responsibility, commitments and karma. It also looks really cool.

Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Suzi Perkins, Cherokee County Sheriff Dustin Smith and Kadee Close (from left) chat over coffee during a Coffee with a Cop event at Bojangles in Murphy on Friday.

Photos by Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com A Gulfstream IV jet rests on muddy grass at the east end of Western Carolina Regional Airport on Friday after the private aircraft overshot the runway during poor weather. Performers at the casino in Cherokee often fly into Andrews.

Abigail Blythe Batton/Staff Correspondent Dave “Scout” Nelson sits in the back of a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter at Roger Swanson’s Band of Brothers Veterans Park in Murphy.