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Cherokee County Board of Education member Joe Wood (left) listens as student Jason Wolfe and teacher John Worden explain the features of the district’s new Parent Engagement Bus, or the LearnIn Bus.

Cherokee County Board of Education member Joe Wood (left) listens as student Jason Wolfe and teacher John Worden explain the features of the district’s new Parent Engagement Bus, or the LearnIn Bus.

New bus joins fleet

Samantha Sinclair
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Body Murphy –  A project that started in September 2019 in John Worden’s science classroom was completed and unveiled on Oct. 23.
U.S. Marines veteran Richard Ferris (right), who lives in Murphy today, reads his Bible while serving in the jungles of wartime Vietnam from 1966-68.

U.S. Marines veteran Richard Ferris (right), who lives in Murphy today, reads his Bible while serving in the jungles of wartime Vietnam from 1966-68.

Local veteran wasn’t expected to make it home alive

Noah Shatzer
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Body Murphy –  Midway through the Vietnam War, Richard Ferris received a Christmas present that would change his life permanently.

Bulldog going to Power 5 college

Noah Shatzer
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Body Murphy – Much like the snowbirds who retreat down south in the fall months to escape the colder winter weather, Murphy High School senior football player Yousef Mugharbil will be h

Internet outage takes down email

News Staff
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Body Murphy – As if a global pandemic and polarizing political campaigns weren’t enough, the Cherokee Scout’s internet system failed in the wee hours of Friday morning.
Photo by Sam Jokich/

Photo by Sam Jokich/

Ringing out again

News Staff
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Body The bell tower and clapper at Episcopal Church of the Messiah in downtown Murphy have spent the last few weeks being cleaned and restored at the Cherokee County Quarry, and last week they were put
This article was on the front page of the April 2, 1942 edition of the Cherokee Scout.

This article was on the front page of the April 2, 1942 edition of the Cherokee Scout.

My View: When ducks get liquored

David Brown
Friday, November 6, 2020
Body     I was going to write something on the general election, making wildly inaccurate prognostications and trying in vain to find something positive to say about it, but then I read a
A Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corp. crew pulls a tap line Thursday across the Toccoa River in Suches, Ga., at Cavender Gap and Georgia 60. Lineman Chase Hemphill is in the bucket, while crew members Kelly Cruse, Clayton Wood, Jeff Odom, Terrence Kane, Chris Busbee, Jesse Miller and Josh Bryant wait to finish their duties after the tap line gets across the river.

A Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corp. crew pulls a tap line Thursday across the Toccoa River in Suches, Ga., at Cavender Gap and Georgia 60. Lineman Chase Hemphill is in the bucket, while crew members Kelly Cruse, Clayton Wood, Jeff Odom, Terrence Kane, Chris Busbee, Jesse Miller and Josh Bryant wait to finish their duties after the tap line gets across the river.

Storm cuts power across county, but no serious accidents, injuries

News Staff
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Body The first Tropical Storm warning in Cherokee County’s history led to downed limbs and widespread power outages, but the area was reportedly free from serious accidents and injuries.

October virus numbers low

Samantha Sinclair
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Body Murphy – Only 130 people in Cherokee County tested positive for COVID-19 in October, the lowest number since June, when only 20 tested positive.
Student teacher Dianna Peterson and second-grade teacher Sara Hickey visit remote learner Maci Dockery last week.

Student teacher Dianna Peterson and second-grade teacher Sara Hickey visit remote learner Maci Dockery last week.

Hickey tries to keep learning fun

Samantha Sinclair
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Body Murphy – Sara Hickey dressed up a football player and boarded the Parent Engagement Bus to visit Murphy Elementary School students who are remote learners on Oct. 21.