Cherokee County News

The nonprofit organization WNC Communities recently hosted its 60th annual Honors Awards program at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa to recognize and reward outstanding community development activities across Western North Carolina.

Brandon Stewart, 14, son of son of Deerwoods Christmas Tree Farm co-owners Tammy and Roger Stewart of Canton, carries a Christmas tree to a customera s car.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has named Carrboro Elementary Principal Doctor Emily Bivins as 2009-2010 principal of the year.

Submitted by WDEF on November 4, 2009 - 7:00pm. Cherokee County News A A A A A D-A in North Carolina has decided not to charge the man who fired the first shot in a mountain revenge plot.

Prosecutors say a Georgia man was defending himself and his wife when he shot and killed a 24-year-old Cherokee County man on his property.

Depending on weather and unforeseen circumstances, construction sites where delays may occur this week include: Medium- and low-severity incidents Buncombe County Both directions of Interstate 40 are closed between Exit 20, West of Asheville, and Exit 421 east of Knoxville, Tenn., due to a rock slide at mile marker 2.6 on I-40 in North Carolina.

Investigators have arrested two men on arson charges for burning the Cherokee County home of a man the sheriff says shot and killed their friend.

North Carolina continues to have a high unemployment rate with two-thirds of the counties in the state running into double digits.

Police say an arsonist torched a Georgia couple's second home in the North Carolina mountains days after a confrontation led to the homeowner shooting a man to death.

Investigators are looking for the cause of a fire that burned a man's house in Cherokee County days after he shot and killed a man on his property.

Competitors in the Cherokee County Senior Games/Silver Arts at the state level have put Cherokee and Clay counties on the map.

Depending on weather and unforeseen circumstances, construction sites where delays may occur this week include: Medium- and low-severity incidents Buncombe County * Two of four lanes of Interstate 26 from mile markers 31-37 - from the Interstate 40 interchange to Long Shoals Road - may be closed in both directions at night until August 2010 for ...

Vaccine packets meant to inoculate wild animals against rabies rained down on rural areas of southwestern Cherokee County last week.

After much deliberation, Swain County commissioners voted 3-2 against an $8,800 pay raise for the Department of Social Services director in the face of a severe budget shortfall.

The U.S. Forest Service is permanently closing the Upper Tellico off-highway vehicle trail system in Cherokee County to correct erosion problems in the watershed.

Drinking-water sources for than 300,000 residents of Western North Carolina are endangered by two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, says the Izaac Walton League in a press release.

The National Weather Service had issued a tornado watch for Cherokee and Clay counties in Western North Carolina.

Two Western North Carolina projects will receive $1.6 million from federal funds designated for the nation's scenic byways.

Ruby Pate represents five generations of 4-H participants. Her mother was in the first 4-H club in 1909, and today her great-granddaugther is involved in 4-H. At the recent 4-H 100 Year Celebration, Pate displayed a certificate she was given in 1933 for sending a jar of tomatoes to the Century of Progress Worlds Fair in Chicago.

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