COMMENTARY: Voting – use it or lose it  

  By MARY HERR CHEROKEE, N.C.   Decisions made at all levels of government (President and Congress in Washington, DC, General Assembly in Raleigh and County Commissioners, Sheriffs, Courts, etc.) impact the daily lives of Cherokee people. If you shop...

COMMENTARY: Only 18 weeks till Christmas

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   I am not a very social person. I wasn’t when I was younger and I am surely not as I grow older. I like people and actually have a few that I love, but as far as chit-chat and “hugginess”, I have had to train myself to...

Bicyclist fatality in Cades Cove

  Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers responded to a report of a bicycle accident in Cades Cove at 10:58 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16. The cyclist, 60-year-old Harold D. Pardue, from Elkin, suffered severe head trauma and was unconscious following the...