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 [...]

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 [...]

Drug Conviction
August 3, 2010 – Murphy, NC . Stacy Gill Hagberg (3/27/1991) of Hayesville entered a plea of Guilty to Trafficking in an Opium Derivative more than 4 grams, but less than 14 grams in front of Superior Court Judge Powell in Cherokee County Superior Court. Hagberg was sentenced to a minimum term of 70 [...]

Clay County Deed Transactions
July 26, 2010 – July 30, 2010
Patriot Properties of America LLC and Jeffery P & Jennifer Stewart sold 0.80 acres, Lot 33 (Eagles View) in Hiawassee Township to Leon M & Lisa C Deleon
for $ 32,000 on July 26, 2010.
Deutsche Bank National Trust Co-TR sold Unit 32 (Licklog Townhouse) in Hiawassee Township [...]

Jose Santos Huerta, 23, of Hayesville, NC arrested for no operators license on July 27, 2010 and released on July 27, 2010.
Johnny Ledford, 56, of Hayesville, NC arrested for driving while impaired on July 28, 2010 and released on July 28, 2010.
Zane Edward Dockery. 23. of Hayesville, NC arrested for failure to appear on misdemeanor [...]

Slightly more than half of the 36 states and D.C., including North Carolina, are in the running for incentive federal education funds amounting to $ 3.4 billion. Eighteen states and D. C.  made the cut in round two. They will each send a five-member committee  to Washington, D.C. on August 9th to make in-person presentations [...]