The Generous Spirit
National Philanthropy Day is November 15, and I’ve been thinking lately about that universal spirit of generosity that prompts us to help others.
On a national scale, Americans gave $3.3 billion in charitable gifts in 2010, even in this tough economy.  On a local level, too, as the Foundation Director at Murphy Medical Center, [...]

Child Molestation is here to Stay
As much as that statement is abhorrent to most of us, it cannot be denied.  Child molestation can be reduced but not eradicated.    If you think this is not a problem here in Clay County, you would be very, very mistaken.  The reason it is so often not detected is [...]

#1- CCCRA congratulates newly elected board members for 2012 at their annual membership meeting October 27th. (L to R): Bob Leonard, John Bayne, Natalie Moses, Rob Tiger, Joanna Atkisson, Gail Criss, Dorothy Ethridge, Linda Bowar, Sandy Nicolette, Lou Lanwermeyer and Eleanor Moyer. Not pictured: Ron Guggisberg and Bob Brock.

Clay County Deed Transactions
October 31, 2011- November 4, 2011
United Community Bank sold 1.650 acres in Hayesville Township to Mountain Projects Management. LLC for $40,000 on October 31, 2011.
Waterfront Group Hidden River, LLC. sold Ezernck Investments, LLC . Lot 30 ( Hidden River) in the Township of Sweetwater for $80,000 on October 31, 2011.
Breeze Amanda Bettis, [...]

Public favors expanding recreation park
By Frank Bradley
Sentinel writer
HAYESVILLE–About 40 people showed up for Monday night’s public hearing regarding a proposal to purchase of 25 acres of land adjoining the county’s ball fields at Veteran’s Park.
Park’s manager Andrew Jones, Jr. is seeking approval to submit an application to the state of North Carolina’s Department of Parks [...]

Airing of the Quilts
Dan and Joy McGlamery in front of one of the oldest known quilts in the county dating back to the early days of the American Civil War. Dan said the quilt had been sewn by Martha Ann McClure Killian, the wife of Dr. D. W. Killian, and that she used her wedding [...]

Jessyca Garrett Reems
Jessyca Garrett Reems, 25, of Gillsville, GA died Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 in a Nashville, TN hospital. She was a native of Hall County, GA, but had lived in Clay County for most of her life. She was a 2008 graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill receiving a bachelor’s [...]

Cultural seminar held in Hayesville
By Frank Bradley
Sentinel writer
Hayesville is one of 13 small towns in western North Carolina that has been working to revitalize itself. They have done it through local volunteers who have taken a pride in their historic and cultural roots, and in so doing have undertaken projects to bring about positive change.
Hayesville [...]

Tusquittee Chronicles XVIII
By Claude Moss
SAN FRANCISCO–1953–I was not old enough to remember our first trip to Grandfather Russell’s. Mother always spoke of going to see her parents as “going home,” and we went rather often in the late seventies and early eighties. Grandfather always greeted us very heartily, and both he and grandmother did everything [...]

Teaching and Learning with Georgia
Nathan Bourne
Last time I wrote about my experiences in the Republic of Georgia I focused on my experience of the Georgian people and the Georgian culture. While experiencing the culture has been a major part of my experience here, and seeing the sense of community that Georgian people have has been [...]