OBITUARY: Jane Lossie Taylor

  Jane Lossie Taylor, 83, went to her heavenly home on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020 at St. Joseph’s Long Term Care Center in Asheville. She was the daughter of the late John Rome Lossie and Charlotte (Welch) Lossie of the Big Cove Community.  Jane will be welcomed to...

Lambert sentenced to 45 months for stabbing

  ASHEVILLE – George Allan Lambert, 48, of Cherokee, was sentenced on Thursday, Aug. 6 to 45 months in prison and three years of supervised release for stabbing a victim with a knife, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North...

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...