Park responds to elk concerns

NOTE: The following response is from Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials which addresses concerns and questions from the public regarding the recent decision to euthanize an elk: Last Friday, Nov. 8, park wildlife biologists made the difficult decision to...

Walter Bernhisel – obituary

Walter Bernhisel, 46, of Cherokee went home to be with the Lord Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013 at his residence. A native of Cherokee, he was the son of the late Edward Charles and Jean Wahnetah Bernhisel. He attended the Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church. He was preceded...

W. Jeff Bishop to lecture at Sequoyah Museum

Nov. 24 from 2-3pm at the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, Tenn.  W. Jeff Bishop, the president of the Trail of Tears Association’s George chapter, will present a free lecture on Removal in the Heart of the Cherokee Nation: Crisis in George, 1838.  This lecture...