Low wages fuel child care labor crisis

  By JONAH LOSSIAH One Feather Staff   Many of North Carolina’s childcare centers were struggling for labor before the pandemic – now those facilities are barely holding on. According to a survey gathered by the North Carolina Child Care Resource and...

Tsali Day celebration planned at Kituwah

  One Feather Staff Report   Each year, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recognizes the Friday after Thanksgiving as a tribal holiday known as Tsali Day.  This year, a group of tribal members are organizing an event honoring Tsali Day and acknowledging...

Welch arrested on drug, firearms charges

  On Monday, Nov. 22, officers from the Cherokee Indian Police Department served a search warrant at 71 Flora Mae Smith Lane in Cherokee. During the execution of the search warrant, Anthony Dirk Welch, a 51-year-old male of Cherokee, was arrested and charged with...