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Picking up the pieces

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Robbinsville – A local woman and her family are being forced to start over. Emergency personnel responded to a call about a structure fire on Eller Branch Road around in the early morning hours Nov. 4.
The unusual landscape of Vietnam is just one obstacle Graham County resident Bob Lewis experienced while defending the United States.

The unusual landscape of Vietnam is just one obstacle Graham County resident Bob Lewis experienced while defending the United States.

Semper fi

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Sweetwater – Always faithful. Always loyal.  Those are the English translations of the Latin phrase Semper Fidelis, the motto of the U.S. Marine Corps. Spend one minute with Bob Lewis, and you will quickly learn that he exudes those traits: faithful and loyal. A native of Hagerstown, Md.

Another outbreak at nursing home

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Milltown – After overcoming a wave of 43 residents and 21 staff members testing positive for COVID-19 in August and September, Graham Healthcare & Rehabilitation has been hit with another outbreak.

Viar arraigned on statutory sex charges

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Robbinsville – A mere seven days passed between Devin McKinnley Viar’s DWI conviction and new charges being filed on the 25-year-old former Graham County sheriff’s deputy. Viar, who lists an address of 452 Old U.S. 129, had a warrant for his arrest filed on Oct. 14.

Record numbers for Graham

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, November 5, 2020
The 2020 election was perhaps the most discussed in our nation’s history and thus, states reported new records for the early-voting process.

Too close to call

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, November 5, 2020
At 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, five states were still unable to determine a winner in the 2020 Presidential race.

Two new faces on Board of Education

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, November 5, 2020
With Graham County Board of Education members Sharon Edwards and Deborah Odom opting to not seek re-election, two seats were up for grabs. A whopping 1,155 of Graham County’s voters turned out for the general election on Tuesday and in the end, Republicans Jonathan Allison (13.

Robbinsville to test CodeRED system Monday

News Staff
Thursday, October 29, 2020
In an event of an emergency, Robbinsville officials issue alerts through CodeRED, a high-speed notification solution. The CodeRED system allows messages to be quickly delivered to targeted areas of Robbinsville, or to the Robbinsville as a whole.       On Monday, Nov.