Photos by Aiden McCoy Williams/Staff Correspondent The Tri-State Spay/Neuter & Veterinary Clinic offers an apprenticeship program to help educate about animal care.

Aiden McCoy Williams/Staff Correspondent Museum board President Trevis Hicks (left) and museum Director Terrisa Carringer are eager for the public to see changes at the Cherokee County Historical Museum.

More than 50,000 copies of the Cherokee Scout’s special section on fugitive Eric Rudolph’s arrest in May 2003 were distributed in several newspapers across western North Carolina and northern Georgia. This copy – which was signed by Jeff Postell, the former Murphy police officer who made the arrest – is hanging in the Scout’s office.

Photos by Nicole Wright/Staff Correspondent Keith Rogers (left) reads the Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith’s birthday message at the Andrews VFW Post 7620’s celebration Nov. 10. Local post commandant Scott Ramler (right) read the original birthday celebration message from Nov. 10, 1921, known as the Lejeune message, written by Major Gen. John Lejeune. Since that first celebration, which stemmed from the Corps’ installment as the Continental Marines on Nov. 10, 1775, the branch’s birthday has been cel

This is the front page of the Nov. 12, 1970, edition of the Cherokee Scout, which was 55 years ago today.

Nicole Wright/Staff Correspondent Bingo! Friends of the Andrews Public Library held their first monthly bingo night with a chili dinner as a fundraiser to a capacity crowd on Nov. 4. The next event, with a different dinner, will be from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the library on Main Street.