Great Smoky Mountains National Park staff are mourning the loss of Deputy Superintendent Patty Wissinger, age 55, who passed away Friday night of cancer. Wissinger was recently selected as the Smokies Deputy Superintendent last August. “Our park family, not only at...

In a landmark decision, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) cancelled the “Redskins” trademark on Wednesday, June 18. The 2-1 decision came down from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and called the Washington, DC – based NFL team’s name “disparaging of Native Americans”. A total of six trademarks, each bearing the word ‘Redskin’, were cancelled.

Students at the Cherokee Cultural Summer Camp perform the Groundhog Dance at the “Night of the Arts” program on Friday, June 20.