Nov. 21, 1991
* Fontana Village was selected as a shooting location for a 76-page Sears catalog. Photos were taken around Cheoah Lake, the Little Tennessee River, Fontana Dam, the Gunter Cabin and the area surrounding the Tuskeegee Motel. Plenty of local children were part of the shoot, including Lynne Morgan, Kevin Crane, Crystal Crane, Kyle West, Jessica Burrell, Heather Holland, Dusty Orr and Ashley Orr.
* Robbinsville Middle School held its first S.A.D.D. (Students Against Drunk Driving) meeting. Officers elected were president Cindy Wiggins, vice president Rocky Carpenter, secretary Cindy Hall and reporter Kylie Crowe. The club’s sponsors were Rodney Nelson and Marcella McRae.
Nov. 14, 1985
* United Globe Furniture shut down, eliminating 500 jobs for residents of Graham, Swain and Cherokee counties. The county was already struggling, as September 1991’s local unemployment rate was 10.3 percent. Personnel manager John Barlow said it was his understanding that the company was “attempting to re-organize and is hoping to re-open the Robbinsville plant.” Update: The facility was housed in the future home of Stanley Furniture and Oak Valley Hardwoods.
* Authorities were still sifting through the discovery of an airplane crash in the Big Snowbird section of the county. Located just 50 yards shy of the Graham/Cherokee County line, the plane was found to have crashed eight months prior. Identifications of those killed the crash had been made, but were not released immediately until notification of next-of-kin.
Nov. 14, 1969
* Larry Gladden was being held in Graham County Jail in connection with the shooting death of 31-year-old Richard H. Conklin, a resident of Madisonville, Tenn. The 22-year-old Gladden was charged after the fatal shooting on Gold Mine Branch Road; Conklin died en route to a doctor’s office in Robbinsville.
-Compiled by publisher/editor Kevin Hensley