Sam Jokich/Staff Correspondent The fields were green and shouting “hay” recently in Hiwassee Dam off N.C. 294, which is always a picturesque drive between North Carolina and Tennessee.
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Photos by Abigail Hickman/Staff Correspondent Above: Murphy Mayor Tim Radford, together with Downtown Development Director Laura Lachance and exuberant party guests, cut the ribbon Friday to declare Cherokee County’s seat as a Main Street Community. Below: Lachance presents Gail Walker Stansell and Karen Watson with an award honoring their hard work.
Anngee Quinones-Belian/Staff Correspondent Children and parents enjoyed the music and dance class offered by Olive’s Porch.
Photos by Anngee Quinones-Belian/Staff Correspondent Richard “Two Feathers” Texeira is happy to serve up eats and drinks during the annual fundraiser at Band of Brothers Veterans Park on Aug. 20.
Motorcycles were also on display during the Hot Summer Nights auto show on Aug. 13 in Andrews. The fundraiser by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7620 included 73 different types of vehicles. Check out the article in the Aug. 24 edition of the Cherokee Scout.
Dylan Brian Green, 25, of Waynesville, pleaded guilty Friday in Haywood County Superior Court to first-degree murder in the death of a 9-month-old girl.
For many years Charles Freel would sit on the bench outside his furniture store on Main Street and visit with the locals who stopped by. It was like a scene in a Norman Rockwell painting. Sitting beside him is Jack Ledford, but the writer could not identify the next man. You can tell it was a nice spring day, as the garden tillers were displayed on the sidewalk.