COMMENTARY: Supports smoking ban for Cherokee casinos

    By LAVITA HILL Big Cove Community   In May, a group of enrolled EBCI (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) members submitted an ordinance change to Tribal Council which will ban smoking on the gaming floors of Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort and...

COMMENTARY: A pat on the back

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   It is productive and right to give pats on the back to those who we think have done us a good deed. By all means, community members and workers who contribute to the betterment of our community deserve a note of...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: The unstoppable Church

  By TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   Read Matthew 14:22-32. God has a purpose for you to be here.  Like Peter, you, too, can walk on water, even though the Lord, after Peter had taken only a few...

COMMENTARY: The big win

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   We are moving quickly through the election year. As Primary Election season draws to a conclusion, we will very quickly be focusing on the General Election, which will, at its conclusion, tell us who and what the...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Real truths never change

  By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   Read Psalm 139:13-16; Psalm 37:4;  James 1:22-25 One purpose for the studying of the Bible is to understand ‘who you are?’ and even more important, ‘Who God Is and what He expects of...