State approves county application for capital funds. Now school awaits commissioners go-ahead decision.
By Frank Bradley
Sentinel writer
It’s something that comes to a community once in a lifetime. An opportunity to borrow $10 million, interest free, to build a new primary school. On Monday, Clay County school superintendent Scott Penland got the word from Raleigh. The county’s [...]

Jo Anna Atkisson, school nurse, conducts health and first aid training with 51 teachers and staff on Monday.
By Frank Bradley
Sentinel writer
Teachers, staff and administrators got a heavy dose of first aid and health training on Monday in preparation to this week’s school opening.
Jo Anna Atkisson said the training involved preventing disease transmission, standard first aid, [...]

CUTLINE #1:
Shown in front, Amber Aiken, left, and Barrett Barber, right, are the first prize winners of an infant car seat donated by The Family Tree of Murphy Medical Center.  The drawing was held during Murphy Medical Center’s Health Fair on August 14.  Shown in back, from left to right, are Debbie Shelton, RN; Brenda [...]

Drilling conditions and weather cause delay
RALEIGH – Rock stabilization efforts near the site of the Interstate 40 rockslide will take longer than originally planned because of unexpected geological conditions and intense heat. Initial plans had called for the work to be complete by Aug. 27. Now crews expect to complete work on Oct. 7.
Crews are [...]

Dr. Bryan Murphy Joins Murphy Group Practice

Murphy, NC –  Women in the Tri-County area now have access to another OB-GYN specialist, with  the recent addition of R. Bryan Murphy, MD, to Murphy Group Practice Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Dr. Murphy joins Dr. Larry Holder, MD, FACOG, and Dr. Jenkins Clarkson, MD, PhD, FACOG, in [...]

More than 200 children in Clay County will receive school supplies through donations to the “Stuff-a-Bus with School Supplies” project co-sponsored by Snap-on, Inc. and the United Way of Cherokee and Clay Counties.
“We packed backpacks for 34 Clay County children in foster care and at the REACH shelter in Clay County,”  said Rose Jones, [...]

Community Bank & Trust  sold property in Brasstown Township to John J Snow III-TR for $ 520,000 on August 16, 2010.
JJ of Shiloh, Inc. and DBL & J Inc. sold 2.24 acres, Tract 3 in Shooting Creek Township to James L Paul for $ 40,000 on August 16, 2010.
Dorman McLamb-TR & Lisbeth Mclamb-TR sold 2 [...]

photo attached, L to R: Brad, Cody, Lisa, Gibson
Local Dog Trainers Go To Duke University
Brad and Lisa Waggoner of Cold Nose College have just returned from their second trip to Durham, NC where they participated in a study in a canine cognition at Duke University.
Professor Brian Hare is testing hundreds of dogs to determine how [...]

CHRISTINE  HOLLOWAY
Christine Holloway, 90, of Hickory died Sunday, July 25, 2010. She was a native of Macon County, but had lived in Catawba County for the past 37 years. She had worked as a nurse’s aide and was a member of the Hickory Seventh Day Adventist Church.
She was the daughter of the late Milas and [...]

David Wayne Hembree
David Wayne Hembree, age 50, of Culberson, NC went home to be with Jesus after an extended illness on Friday, July 30, 2010. He was cared for at home by his wife and hospice but unfortunately the last two days of his life he was at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, NC where he succumbed to pneumonia. He was born in [...]