Charles & Lena
Salmon Glacier
TAKING THE NAME OF JESUS
TO THE WORLD IN AMAZING WAYS
Thanks to the prayers and support of you our friends since Lena and I have been married we have taken the name of Jesus to the world in some amazing ways. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!! God brought Lena and I together she [...]

Special to the Smoky Mountain Sentinel
A Visit to Vietnam
By: Willis P. Whichard
In March 2009, I was delegate to a U.S. -India law firm forum in India. I thought then that the trip would probably be my last to Asia.Soon after my return, however, I received information from the University of North Carolina Alumni Association about [...]

Pet of the Week
I’m Maude.  As you can see by my photo, I’m a smarty cat!  I am not really what you would call a lap cat.  I am pretty darn independent actually.  I would love to live somewhere that I could get good food, water, shelter and an occasional petting would be perfect.  Are [...]

Pet of the Week
I’m Maude.  As you can see by my photo, I’m a smarty cat!  I am not really what you would call a lap cat.  I am pretty darn independent actually.  I would love to live somewhere that I could get good food, water, shelter and an occasional petting would be perfect.  Are [...]

REEL MEMORIES NO. 162
C. M. Akins
by
William V. Reynolds We begin our series “Under Western Stars” with one of my favorite supporting characters who actually became a star in his own right. This old boy was from Nelson, Georgia, which incidentally, no longer appears on the map but lies partly in Pickens County and [...]

Burns Night Celebration in Franklin Saturday, January 29th, 2011
The 25th of January, the birthday of Robert Burns, is celebrated by Scots around the world.  Robert Burns endeared himself to Scottish people because he wrote poetry and stories in the “Old Scots” and thus saved the dialect for posterity at a time when the English rulers [...]

Cooley, Kilmer & Liden in Concert at the Folk School on January 14
Local trio, Cooley, Kilmer & Liden will be featured in concert at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. at 7:30 pm on Friday, January 14. The concert, which will be held in the Folk School’s Keith House Community Room, is [...]

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER GIVE BOOKSIGNING
Brenda Kay Ledford and Blanche L. Ledford will sign copies of their book, SIMPLICITY, at Mountain Regional Library in Young Harris, GA on Saturday, January 15; 11:00 AM—2:00 PM.
Step back to a simpler time with this mother and daughter.  Meet the folks they loved, capture the beauty of Appalachia, feel the [...]

Wooing industry
County’s economic development team works to bring in new industry
By Frank Bradley
Sentinel writer
With unemployment high and many people lamenting the lack of jobs for our area, there is a group of community leaders who have been quietly working behind the scenes to recruit industry and bring other firms to Cherokee County. On Friday with [...]

Graduation Project Honors Mother, Benefits Hospital
Self-defense class a fundraiser for digital mammography
Meghan Maher, 17, tragically lost her mother, Rhonda Rhyne, last year to breast cancer.  The brave Murphy High School senior chose to honor her mother with her graduation project by producing a Women’s Self-Defense Class to benefit the fight against that deadly disease.
Maher donated [...]