Donna Duval/Contributing Photographer Classic automobiles lined streets in downtown Murphy on July 12 for the Murphy Art Center’s first car show. The success was far more than expected.
Bipartisanship: Democratic Gov. Josh Stein and N.C. Sen. Kevin Corbin (R-Franklin) shake hands after N.C. Senate Bill 124 was signed into law to make state hiring easier.
Photos by Nicole Wright/Staff CorrespondentSenior vice commander Candis Browand (right) and former post commander and chaplain JD Baker hoist the annual single flag representative of the many others to be incinerated during Andrews VFW Post 7620's annual flag retirement ceremony on June 14.
Cannon Crompton/sports@cherokeescout.com A Highway Patrol trooper and two Swain County sheriff’s deputies (from left) salute as the funeral procession for Transport Detention Officer Francisco Flattes drives by.
Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Lead vehicles, including a hearse bearing the remains of Cherokee County Transport Detention Officer Francisco Flattes, travel along U.S. 19/74/129 in Murphy for a funeral procession that included several hundred vehicles. Flattes was the first local law enforcement officer to lose his life while on the job since 1953, a span of 72 years.
Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Andrews Mayor James Reid files to run for re-election Monday morning with Jennifer O’Dell, office assistant at the Cherokee County Board of Elections office in Murphy, assisting him with the paperwork.
Seth Stallard of Hiwassee Dam on a hunting trip in Colorado in 2023, when his dogs treed three mountain lions in five days. He says he has been all over the hills of western North Carolina and never had an experience like he did out West.