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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Holds round table discussion about job creation, job training and transportation
By Frank Bradley
Sentinel writer
If you have followed politics in North Carolina during the past 20 years, you might have noticed the only time a sitting U.S. senator or NC governor or candidates running for those offices have visited the western counties of Cherokee, Graham and [...]

Song of the South
by William V. Reynolds
Joel Chandler Harris, a Georgia writer who lived at Eatonton, Georgia, was born in the year 1848. He grew up in the antebellum South and continued to live there until his death in the early 1900s. During this time Joel heard many stories from the African-Americans who lived [...]

Health Fair Offers Many Health, Learning Experiences
Murphy Medical Center will host a Health Fair on August 14 from 7 am – 2 pm, in conjunction with the WNC Business Expo/Job Fair which starts at 9 am.  The three-county event will be held at the Coats American building at 115 Palmer Lane, in Marble, NC.
This year’s [...]

Fred Raines Melton, 70, of Murphy died Thursday, July 15, 2010 at his residence.  He was a native of Hartsville, TN but had lived in Tampa, FL before moving to western North Carolina in 1988.  Fred was a self employed petroleum contractor in Florida and later worked for Schneider National Trucking Co. and the [...]