Radon: The Silent Killer

EBCI Air Quality Program to give away free test kits   By AMBLE SMOKER ONE FEATHER STAFF   Radon, a radioactive gas that is both odorless and colorless, could be invading the air inside your home and accumulating towards lethal levels.  This radioactive gas...

Keeping track in the Smokies

Friends of the Smokies receives grant for tracking, monitoring elk Friends of the Smokies has received a grant for $13,720 from Charter Communications, Inc. for support of wildlife management in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The grant provides for the purchase...

New Year’s Blessing

By SHAWN SPRUCE Upon returning to Cherokee from a business trip late one evening last summer, my girlfriend gave me a small box wrapped in simple white paper.  Expecting a book or some other ordinary gift I opened it without much thought.  Inside, I discovered only a...