Cherokee Scout Publisher David Brown (left) chats with Alissa Cheek and Marie Monies (right) during a tour of the new Schools of Innovation & Technology in Peachtree on Friday morning.

Linda Penland, a volunteer with the Foster Grandparent Program with Mountain Projects, has a serious plastic phone conversation with a student.

Betty Luckey’s dog, Hank, is a purebred registered bloodhound who became a proud poppa to seven puppies on April 29.

Robbi Pounds and her horse, Percy Walker, survived an encounter with a poisonous copperhead snake last month while patrolling woods near her Cherokee County home.

Teenagers in the science room are (from left) Maggie Allison and Colby Oxton.

From left, James, Noah, Elijah (front), Kaidence and Colter (front) use materials to learn through discovery at the Head Start educational center in Andrews.

Mimi Hitselberger holds a paint-by-numbers painting of a ballerina along with a painting she did prior to her medical issues.

This is the front page of the Aug. 14, 1952, edition of the Cherokee Scout, which was 70 years ago this week.

The Rev. Will Posey, church historian Charlene Smith and the Rev. Thomas Stubbs, a former pastoral intern, prepare Murphy First United Methodist Church’s time capsule items before they are sealed in the box for 100 years.