by Anthony Brown | Mar 21, 2016 | OBITUARIES
Peanut Edwin French, 64, of the Big Cove community went home to be with the Lord Saturday, March 19, 2016. A native of Cherokee, he was the son of the late Roy and Mary Swayney French. He was a member of the Sequoyah Sovereign Grace Church and a U.S. Navy Veteran. ...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 19, 2016 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
The Musial Theater Department at Cherokee High School and Middle Schools has cast the characters for their production of the Lion King Jr. which will take the stage at the Chief Joyce Dugan Cultural Center on May 5-7 at 7pm. The cast includes: Ella Montelongo...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 18, 2016 | OPINIONS
By WILLIAM LEDFORD It’s here! March Madness has begun. As usual I find myself in a quandary at this time. Not in picking the winner this year. That would be UNC. The Tarheels seem to have dropped into the groove. Now if Marcus Paige could find...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 18, 2016 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
SYLVA – Long before he became Vice Chief for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Richard Sneed was working with young people. He served as an instructor at Cherokee High School for more than 11 years, and he was pastor at Christ Fellowship Church in...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 18, 2016 | SPORTS di-ne-lv-di-yi
In the early 1900s, Theodore “Ted” Owl Reed, an EBCI tribal member, left his home in North Carolina to begin a life-long search for higher education in the service of Native Americans. He attended Hampton Institute, now known as Hampton University, in Hampton,...