Nicole Wright/Staff Correspondent Crowds line First Street in downtown Andrews for last year’s Food Truck Fridays. This year’s monthly event starts Friday with Rock Holler band as musical act. The event features local and regional food trucks along with craft and artisan vendors every fourth Friday through October from 5-8 p.m.

Photos by Aiden McCoy Williams/Staff Correspondent The community gathered at Hanging Dog General Store for the fourth annual Chili Cook-off to raise money for the Hanging Dog Fire Department’s playground plan.

Photos by Nicole Wright/Staff Correspondent Students and alumni from Hiwassee Dam High School join art teacher Christen Clonts at the Cherokee County Arts Council Student Awards ceremony on April 25. Four Hiwassee Dam students took home awards, including two first-place winners. From left are alumni Colton Mills and Yovana Ermosa; students Trenton Pittman, Bo Meyers; art teacher Cristen Clonts and son James Clonts; and student Kenneth Bohannon, who placed first in the 3D category and sold his ceramic piece

Randy Foster/editor@cherokeescout.com Another look: No one was seriously injured when a single-engine passenger plane flipped over on its top two weeks ago while landing at Vic Payne’s strip off Settawig Road in Brasstown. The pilot was landing when his plane went “a little squirrel” and flipped over after he touched ground, Clay County sheriff’s Lt. Tyler Faggard said.

This is the front page of the May 14, 1964, edition of the Cherokee Scout, which was 61 years ago today.