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Photos by Anngee Quinones-Belian/Staff Correspondent Rob Jordan is happy to be back open after renovations to the Hot Spot in Ranger.
Man’s legacy of customer service lives on
Photos by Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Firefighters from Valleytown Fire & Rescue stand by while waiting for Duke Energy workers to shut off power to a line taken down by a falling tree across Pisgah Road near Andrews on the afternoon of April 1.
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Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Emergency responders assemble beside the burning wreckage of a Velocity airplane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Western Carolina Regional Airport on Saturday.
Veteran pilot dies in plane crash
Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Police, sheriff’s deputies and K-9 units begin approaching a house on Fort Butler Street, where they responded to a report of someone holed up and armed Thursday.
No injuries in tense standoff
New era at folk school
hotos by Lisa DeLaurentiis/Contributing Photographer Beulah is still wet after her fourth, and final, jump from a kayak into the New River last week
Beulah living it up
Abigail Blythe Batton/Staff Correspondent Lillian Graham receives an honorable mention from Kathy Temple during the April 6 poetry reading at Tri-County Community College.
Listening to the stones
Anngee Quinones-Belian/Staff Correspondent David Thomas presents Eddie Eller with a check from the community for Keith Ledford’s new roof, thanks to donations from the community and a gofundme.com fundraiser.