This letter is one I have put off writing but cannot let this go any longer without saying something. Mr. James Davis is way off base in his thinking about our new elementary school and I for one am sick and tired of hearing how dumb and stupid our School Board and School Superintendent are.  [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
Four Years. That is how long the Republican Party has had to develop an integrated, consolidated plan for implementing smaller government, creating new jobs, solving the national debt issue, and permanently reducing government revenue.  However, their start to governing as the new majority party in Congress suggests that, literally, all they have done [...]

28 years ago I was invited to lunch with Hosni Mubarak, the then new president of Egypt. I was head of the international division of a NYC bank at the time. Mubarak struck me as a very bright capable tough man.
Mubarak’s predecessor, Anwar Sadat, had recently been assassinated by military officers. Wikipedia is careful not [...]

The Green Column
by Richard C. MacCrea, Andrews Valley Initiative
rmaccrea1@gmail.com
Remodeling business forecast to improve this year.
Angie’s List announced their nationwide survey results, and 90% of the respondents plan to spend money on remodeling or repairing their home this year. How much? On the average, 5% of their home’s value. An average home in this area might [...]

Special to the Smoky Mountain Sentinel
A Visit to Vietnam
By: Willis P. Whichard
Willis Whichard is a retired NC Supreme Court Justice and past dean of the Campbell Law School. He is a part-time resident of Hayesville. The Sentinel has previously published accounts of Judge Whichard’s travels  throughout Europe and Asia. This is an eight-part series of [...]

PLATO E. SALTZ
Plato E. Saltz, 96, of Hayesville died Friday, February 11, 2011 at his residence. He was a native of Madison County, NC, but had lived in Clay County since 1922. Plato was a welder and iron worker, having worked on many projects and dams in the Northwest. Among these was the Grand Coulee [...]

Clint Gragg

Date
August 21, 1924 – February 10, 2011

Obituary
Clint Gragg, age 86, of Murphy, NC passed away Thursday February 10, 2011 at the Murphy Medical Center Nursing Home in Murphy, NC.
A native and lifelong resident of Cherokee Couny, NC; he was the son of the late Lattie and Laura McHan Gragg. He was an U.S. Army [...]

Dorothy “Dot” Thigpen, 80, of Murphy died Thursday, February 10, 2011 in a Murphy medical center.  She was a native of Sanford, NC, but had lived in Warner Robins, GA before moving to Murphy in 1975.  She was a homemaker and a member of the Peachtree Memorial Baptist Church and the Murphy Civitan Club.  In [...]

Daniel C. Moore, 48, of Hiawassee, GA, formerly of Murphy, died Wednesday, February 9, 2011. He was a native of Cherokee County where he had lived most of his life. He was currently an employee of Ingles in Hiawassee. Danny was a member of the Peachtree Memorial Baptist Church.
He was the son of the late [...]

Jeff Lewis Jackson

Date
December 05, 1950 – February 13, 2011

Obituary
Jeff Lewis Jackson, age 60, of Murphy, NC passed away Sunday, February 13, 2011 at the Murphy Medical Center.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Thursday, February 17, 2011 at Townson-Rose Funeral Home Chapel in Murphy, NC.
The family will receive friends from 12:00 PM to 2:00 [...]