Local
Knights fall in Western final
Newland – Robbinsville High School’s dual-team wrestling season came to an abrupt end on Feb.
$35K available for cancer patients
Robbinsville – Only six applications for financial aid by those going through cancer treatments were received at the beginning of the year.
Changes coming to one-stop voting policy
Robbinsville – Access to names of one-stop voters by the public will no longer be allowed.
Alcohol sales shelved again
Robbinsville – For the second straight month, the town had the decision whether to vote on allowing constituents to decide if Graham County would sell alcohol once again or not.
Health officials say budget stalemate may put DHHS in the red
By Julie Havlak
Carolina Journal News Service
Raleigh — Money is tight at N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
Rising education narrows male-female earnings gap
By Ferrel Guillory
Op-Ed
In the late 1990s, education data showed a widening gender gap in higher education enrollment across the South.