Local

Amanda Gyongyos and Jim Huffman (front row), plus David Crowe and Sharon Crowe (back) stand to sing The Star-Spangled Banner at Friday’s Robbinsville High School Veterans’ Day program. Photos by Latresa Phillips/The Graham Star

Amanda Gyongyos and Jim Huffman (front row), plus David Crowe and Sharon Crowe (back) stand to sing The Star-Spangled Banner at Friday’s Robbinsville High School Veterans’ Day program. Photos by Latresa Phillips/The Graham Star

Students thank veterans

Latresa Phillips
Monday, November 18, 2024
Robbinsville – Football wasn’t the only thing on the minds of students at Robbinsville High School on Friday, as the institution hosted its annual “Salute to Our Veterans” program.
Dry conditions have sparked at least four brush fires in Graham County over the last week. The efforts to curb the spread of flames began Tuesday, Nov. 5, when this blaze started off Hoot Owl Hollow. Photo courtesy of Frank Cline/U.S. Forest Service

Dry conditions have sparked at least four brush fires in Graham County over the last week. The efforts to curb the spread of flames began Tuesday, Nov. 5, when this blaze started off Hoot Owl Hollow. Photo courtesy of Frank Cline/U.S. Forest Service

Everything’s on fire

Marshall McClung
Monday, November 18, 2024
If you are a firefighter – or have one in the family – you are subject to being awakened at unearthly hours when normal people are fast asleep. Such was the case Tuesday, Nov. 5, when firefighters rolled out of bed around 5 a.m., to respond to a brush fire in the Atoah Circle area of Graham County.
Graham County Schools will be constructing a new elementary school on this plot of land, which sits adjacent to the current high school baseball field. Photo by Kevin Hensley/editor@grahamstar.com

Graham County Schools will be constructing a new elementary school on this plot of land, which sits adjacent to the current high school baseball field. Photo by Kevin Hensley/editor@grahamstar.com

Deal struck for new school property

Kevin Hensley
Monday, November 18, 2024
Robbinsville – With surveys completed, Graham County Schools has announced the price and amount of land to be acquired for a new elementary school. At Nov. 5’s board of education meeting, assistant superintendent/facilities director David Matheson revealed that 6.

Tennessee officer dies after accident

Kevin Hensley
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Cherohala – A Georgia man has passed away from injuries he sustained in a two-vehicle accident on the Cherohala Skyway last month. According to a report from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, 52-year-old Ringgold resident Enoch Daniel Ian Hurd was traveling east on N.C.
Stephanie Oakey’s Poems of a Southern Nobody was just released as both a hardcover and an e-book.

Stephanie Oakey’s Poems of a Southern Nobody was just released as both a hardcover and an e-book.

60 poems in a book

Latresa Phillips
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
The loss of Sandra Brooms (left) last year inspired her daughter Stephanie Oakey (right) to write poetry. One year later, Poems of a Southern Nobody has been recognized in USA Today.

3 new faces voted into office

Kevin Hensley
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Robbinsville – In overwhelming fashion, Graham County voters spent the last 2 ½ weeks frequenting the polls. Of 6,262 registered voters in the county, 3,354 cast a ballot during the one-stop (early) period – or 53.6 percent.

Injured hiker rescued

Marshall McClung
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Snowbird – The Graham County 911 Center received an SOS from a device that can send messages via satellite from a hiker around 5:20 p.m., Saturday. Corey Williams – 34, of Huntsville, Ala.
Robbinsville Elementary School teacher Keilah Stewart recently won statewide recognition for her work as a math instructor for local students.

Robbinsville Elementary School teacher Keilah Stewart recently won statewide recognition for her work as a math instructor for local students.

Teacher wins state math award

Latresa Phillips
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Robbinsville – Keilah Stewart has been selected as the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics and North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Outstanding Elementary School Mathematics Teacher for the 2024-25 school year.
Prior to their performance of “Islands in the Stream” at Saturday’s “Graham County’s Got Talent 3,” Kevin Roberts and Becky Diane announced that they were married earlier in the day. More photos from the show will be uploaded soon to The Graham Star’s Facebook page; watch the event now on the Star’s YouTube channel. Photo by Alex Parton/The Graham Star

Prior to their performance of “Islands in the Stream” at Saturday’s “Graham County’s Got Talent 3,” Kevin Roberts and Becky Diane announced that they were married earlier in the day. More photos from the show will be uploaded soon to The Graham Star’s Facebook page; watch the event now on the Star’s YouTube channel. Photo by Alex Parton/The Graham Star

Annual talent show raises $7K

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Robbinsville – Delaying the third installment of “Graham County’s Got Talent” did little to hurt the effort. Originally penciled in for Sept. 28, the annual Graham Cancer Support Group fundraiser went off without a hitch Saturday at Robbinsville High School.
Susie Garland Adams attempted to keep a close eye on breast-cancer detection, but the disease still appeared out of nowhere. Thanks to a timely mammogram, Adams successfully combated the diagnosis over 12 years ago.

Susie Garland Adams attempted to keep a close eye on breast-cancer detection, but the disease still appeared out of nowhere. Thanks to a timely mammogram, Adams successfully combated the diagnosis over 12 years ago.

Survivors: Susie Adams

Latresa Phillips
Thursday, October 31, 2024
* Final in a 4-part series Sweetwater – In 2012, Susie Garland Adams was doing all the right things to detect breast cancer early.  At 47 years of age, she had a regular exam at Tallulah Health Clinic by Dr. Patricia Johnson. She had been for her annual checkup by her OBGYN in Asheville.