COMMENTARY: We didn’t “sign” up for this

  By ROBERT JUMPER  ONE FEATHER EDITOR    One of the appealing things about Cherokee is the natural beauty of the homeland. Indeed, all western North Carolina was homeland for the Cherokee people at one time. The concept of land ownership was foreign to most...

 Park to receive maintenance backlog funding

  SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF   The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will soon be able to get to work on some maintenance issues due to federal funding approved in recent bi-partisan legislation.  The Great American Outdoors Act, signed into law by...