10 years ago
* Kim Carringer – media coordinator for Robbinsville Middle and High schools – started a reading club. In 2011, more than 20 students joined, with 13 finishing the course. “The most important thing for me is to have children reading at their proper level,” said teacher Warren Knott. “Reading goes across all levels, from math to sports. It’s amazing how much easier school gets for a student that learns to enjoy reading.”
* Robbinsville played every person on its roster in a 63-6 win over Andrews. Austin Hill scored on two runs for the Black Knights and added another score on a 81-yard kickoff return with less than a second to go in the first half. Robbinsville’s ground game destroyed the Wildcats defense, as the Knights racked up 418 yards and five touchdowns.
25 years ago
* The largest BMW Riders Association International Rally ever may have been the most traumatic, as well. Fontana Village was filled with 2,155 members of the rally. A misunderstanding about the possibility of selling alcohol – and high visibility of law officers – resulted in claims of harassment and threats to boycott Graham County and North Carolina.
50 years ago
* The representatives for the 1972-73 Homecoming Queen at Robbinsville High School were pictured on the front page: Sereita Mehaffey, Susie Lewis, Libby Ford, Rhonda Davis, Darla Wilson, Debbie Stratton, Julie Pullium, Linda Waldroup, Lynn Clifford, Pam Humes and Mary Toomey. One of these ladies would be chosen Miss Black Knight 1972-73 at halftime of the Cherokee/Robbinsville football game.
-Compiled by Diane West