NEWS ᎧᏃᎮᏓ
Chief’s Corner: Housing Portfolio Program and Down Payment Assistance
Principal Chief Richard Sneed is presenting video chats with key guest speakers who work in different areas of tribal government and life. These videos are available via Chief Sneed’s Facebook page. The following transcribed edition is being made available to our readers with permission.
Chief’s Corner: Project Management
Principal Chief Richard Sneed is presenting video chats with key guest speakers who work in different areas of tribal government and life. These videos are available via Chief Sneed’s Facebook page. The following transcribed edition is being made available to our readers with permission.
CHS names valedictorian, salutatorian
Cherokee High School (CHS) officials have announced that Shalyn Barker and Maya Cruz are the Class of 2021’s valedictorian and salutatorian respectively. In addition to excelling in academics, both young ladies were active during their years at CHS in various clubs and sports.
ONE FEATHER PHOTOS
COMMUNITY ᏍᎦᏚᎩ
Friends, family endow Kenneth Haigler scholarship through SCC Foundation
For many years, Kenneth Haigler, an EBCI tribal member, helped students in Southwestern Community College’s radiography technology program learn and grow by supervising their clinical rotations at Swain Community Hospital.
SCC to present screenings of Cherokee language documentary
The Native American MENtoring Program (NAMP) at Southwestern Community College will present screenings of the award winning documentary “First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee” later this month.
State Employees Association scholarships available
The State Employees Association of North Carolina will offer a total of 47 annual scholarships in 2016 for active SEANC members, their spouses and independent children.
OPINIONS ᏃᎵᏍᎬᎢ
COMMENTARY: Never a dull moment….issue.
I keep writing these things and they keep vanishing, volumes two and three have gotten lost in the ether of the internet and things that I wrote about then are old news now.
EDITORIAL: One possible solution…maybe three.
We are in great need of an overhaul of government protocol. I am not talking about the people who fill the seats of our elected posts.
LETTER: A place of sanctuary for pets
We had dogs of our own, but we started to notice that there were a lot of stray dogs and dogs along roadsides that looked to be homeless and/or abandoned
SPORTS ᏍᎦᏚᎩ
BASKETBALL: Mintz signs letter of intent with Lenoir-Rhyne
Avery Mintz is a Lady Brave this year, but next season she’ll be a Bear. The Cherokee senior signed a letter of intent on Wednesday, Nov. 13 to play basketball on a full scholarship next year for Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory.
Fall CHS Sports Seniors honored
Cherokee High School seniors in all fall sports, band, and ROTC were honored before and at halftime of the Cherokee football game at Ray Kinsland Stadium on Friday, Nov. 8.
FOOTBALL: Robbinsville 52 Cherokee 0
The Robbinsville Black Knights defeated the Braves 52-0 at Ray Kinsland Stadium on Friday, Nov. 8.
OBITUARIES ᏧᏂᏲᎰᏒ
Molly Teresa Littlejohn – obituary
Molly Teresa Littlejohn, 57, of the Yellowhill Community, went home to be with the Lord Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019.
Nell Beck Crowe – obituary
Nell Beck Crowe, 73, of Cherokee, left peacefully to be with the Lord Jan. 9, 2019.
Timothy Jeffrey Locust Jr. – obituary
Timothy Jeffrey Locust Jr., infant son of Timothy Jeffrey Locust Sr. and Nalisha Watty Guerrero passed away Saturday, Jan. 5 at Mission Hospital in Asheville.
HAPPENINGS
Cherokee Archaeological Symposium flyer
Attention bear hunters
In an effort to better understand the black bear population on tribal lands, the EBCI department of Fisheries and Wildlife Management is giving blaze orange hats to hunters who report harvest data and submit pre-molar teeth for aging. Report forms and tooth envelopes...
Western North Carolina Bioenergy Field Day
Sept. 4 from 1-5pm at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station in Mills River. Tours of research plots and processing equipment demonstrations will help growers, researchers, and private industry interests learn how we are working to meet the state’s...
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