National Alpaca Farm Day
What: National Alpaca Farm Day
Where: September 26th & 27th
Where: Harmony Hills Farm
1094 Daylily Drive
Marble, NC 28905
Why: A great, free opportunity for the public to come meet alpacas  and learn more about these inquisitive, unique animals. We will have door prizes, snacks and refreshments. Directions: Go past Wal-Mart, turn right on Old Peachtree [...]

Humorist Sue Falcone of Greensboro, NC, is coming to Murphy October 8, 2009, as the featured speaker for the TRI-COUNTY WOMEN’S CONNECTION special evening gathering.  Recently identified as “a person making a difference in the lives of others” in her home town, Sue Falcone has gone from a very difficult life to an exciting life [...]

Rep. Heath Shuler had a busy week as the House passed his bill to expand the Pisgah National Forest boundaries to give the public better access to Catawba Falls, and Daniel Allison — president of Allison’s Chevrolet dealership in Sylva — testified at a panel about the critical role that auto dealers play in rural [...]

Know your options
By Attorney General Roy Cooper
During these difficult economic times, many North Carolina families are struggling to make ends meet, especially those families that have been hit by layoffs. Across our state, 11 percent of workers are out of a job. For many people, losing your job also means losing your health insurance.
If you [...]

Frank Bradley
With the receipt of a $480,000 grant, Industrial Opportunities of Andrews is looking to expand its facility and hire 75 new employees. While all the details weren’t available as the Sentinel went to press, IOI has contracts underway to create opportunities for new jobs with current customers and new customers over the next 18 [...]

It still needs approval by the North Carolina Department of Transportation; however on Monday, the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners voted to name Bridge # 141 on State Road 1388 in honor of Ty Burnette, a long-serving alderman and mayor of Andrews.
Some of the accomplishments during Burnette’s years of service include: upgrade of Andrews Recreation [...]

By Frank Bradley
The Town of Murphy is soon to have new radio-read meters for its entire water system. The funding for the system comes via federal stimulus grant/loan in the amount of a $528,496.
On Monday, the town board passed a resolution, signed by Mayor Bill Hughes, accepting the terms of the 50/50 loan grant, which [...]

Jazz Arts Trio opens Brasstown Concert Association’s 36th season
By Natalie Moses

BRASSTOWN, NC—The Brasstown Concert Association (BCA) will present pianist Frederick Moyer’s “Jazz Arts Trio” in a performance on Sunday, September 27 at 2:30pm at the Keith House, John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. This concert is the first of BCA’s 36th season, and [...]

By Emolyn Liden
Sentinel Writer
Think of your favorite sport.  Take out the ball, the net, the field, the court, the diamond.  What do you have left? It may even be your sport’s punishment: Running. Pure running. Sneakers and the road.  To the lean and mean team members, that is what cross country is all about, just [...]