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Photos by Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Firefighters from Valleytown Fire & Rescue stand by while waiting for Duke Energy linemen to shut off power to a power line taken down by a falling tree across Pisgah Road near Andrews on Saturday afternoon.

Photos by Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Firefighters from Valleytown Fire & Rescue stand by while waiting for Duke Energy linemen to shut off power to a power line taken down by a falling tree across Pisgah Road near Andrews on Saturday afternoon.

Winds take down trees across Cherokee County

News Staff
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Body Murphy – Severe weather that clobbered Southern states over the last week may have spared Cherokee County from tornadoes, but not high winds and countless fallen trees, often takin
Photos by Abigail Blythe Batton/Staff Correspondent John Morton and Rick Alringer choose balls before bowling March 25 at the UltraStar Multi-tainment Center inside Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River Casino & Hotel to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western North Carolina. Both men represented team ‘Water Buffalos’ from First United Methodist Church in Murphy. ‘We named ourselves after the Sacred Order of the Water Buffalos from the Flintstones,’ Morton said by way of fun explanation. Read the article in th

Photos by Abigail Blythe Batton/Staff Correspondent John Morton and Rick Alringer choose balls before bowling March 25 at the UltraStar Multi-tainment Center inside Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River Casino & Hotel to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western North Carolina. Both men represented team ‘Water Buffalos’ from First United Methodist Church in Murphy. ‘We named ourselves after the Sacred Order of the Water Buffalos from the Flintstones,’ Morton said by way of fun explanation. Read the article in th

Quick Reads

News Staff
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Body MURPHY Stations of the Cross A Crosswalk (Stations of the Cross) will take place at 10 a.m. on Good Friday.
Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com  Firefighters take a breather after containing a 10-acre woods fire near Granny Squirrel off U.S. 19 on Friday. The fire was caused when someone set fire to a pile of tires.

Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com  Firefighters take a breather after containing a 10-acre woods fire near Granny Squirrel off U.S. 19 on Friday. The fire was caused when someone set fire to a pile of tires.

Dry winds drive fires across WNC

Randy Foster
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Body Murphy – Dry, windy conditions late last week had western North Carolina leading the state in the number of acres burned by wildfires, according to data.
Photos by Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com   Top: Science education specialist Nick Eakes describes constellations that are visible in a nighttime sky. Below: Third-graders, faculty and staff in front of the mobile planetarium at Peachtree Elementary School on March 22.

Photos by Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com   Top: Science education specialist Nick Eakes describes constellations that are visible in a nighttime sky. Below: Third-graders, faculty and staff in front of the mobile planetarium at Peachtree Elementary School on March 22.

A mobile view of the universe

News Staff
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Body A mobile planetarium from the Morehead Planetarium & Science Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill was at the school for three days, thanks to good timing and a $1,300 grant.