LETTER: Park will close if government shuts down

  To the Editor: If Congress fails to reach a federal budget resolution by midnight, Sept. 30, Great Smoky Mountains National Park and hundreds of other National Park Service sites in America will close to the public indefinitely. In Great Smoky Mountains...

Thank you from the Big Cove Indian Ball teams

  We recently held two fundraisers for our children’s and men’s teams for new shorts and shirts for this year. Our first fundraiser was a bingo and meat pie fundraiser, and we would like to thank the following: Da Store, Cherokee Bottled Water, Hair Clan, Lil...

LETTER: Recognize humanitarian acts in crazy world

  We live in a crazy world, don’t we?  Hatred and violence are rampant. Poverty and hard times leave families and communities desperate. Friends turn on friends. Jealousy, duplicity, hypocrisy and ill-will abound. Because we live knowing that all this unfortunate...