Body found while searching for missing person

  While conducting a grid search for missing person James Pepion, a search team located a camp site and human remains, in close proximity to his residence. No identification has been done at this time. The remains will be sent to Wake Medical Center for DNA and...

Cherokee to make history with electric school bus

  By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. One Feather Staff   Cherokee will be getting an electric school bus soon thanks to a grant from the N.C. Phase I Volkswagen (VW) Mitigation Program.  The Cherokee Boys Club (CBC) operates the school bus system for Cherokee Central...

Lumbee Bill introduced into House again

  By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. One Feather Staff   Certain lawmakers are attempting yet again to garner federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.  Congressmen G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), and David Price (D-N.C.) submitted H.R....

Alleged graveyard vandal gets time served

  From the Office of the N.C. District Attorney, 43rd District   ROBBINSVILLE – Following the results of a mental evaluation, a judge on Monday, April 19 ordered the release of an Oregon woman accused in March 2019 of tipping over 61 gravestones in...

Motorcycle fatality on Clingmans Dome Road

  Great Smoky Mountains National Park Rangers responded to a report of a motorcycle wreck on Clingmans Dome Road at 4:08 p.m. on Sunday, April 18.  Maynoy Alexander Ardon, age 20, of Guatemala, was traveling down Clingmans Dome Road when he lost control of his...