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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.

Death by distribution charges dropped

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Robbinsville – Citing an inability to locate witnesses, charges that have been on the books against a local man for over three years were dismissed in Graham County Superior Court on Monday.
Hugh Ellis Bennett entertains the masses at Saturday’s Stecoah Harvest Festival. Photo by Royce Worbington/The Graham Star

Hugh Ellis Bennett entertains the masses at Saturday’s Stecoah Harvest Festival. Photo by Royce Worbington/The Graham Star

Harvest festival attracts over 2,000 people

Latresa Phillips
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Stecoah – Fall is the perfect time to celebrate the changing of leaves, pumpkins, hayrides and the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center’s annual harvest festival.
Following the closure of I-40 between North Carolina and Tennessee, tractor-trailers have met numerous warning signs – such as this one, at the intersection of N.C. 28 and N.C. 143 in Stecoah – to provide notice that U.S. 129 in Tennessee (the “Tail of the Dragon”) does not allow commercial vehicles over 30 feet. Photo by Kevin Hensley/editor@grahamstar.com

Following the closure of I-40 between North Carolina and Tennessee, tractor-trailers have met numerous warning signs – such as this one, at the intersection of N.C. 28 and N.C. 143 in Stecoah – to provide notice that U.S. 129 in Tennessee (the “Tail of the Dragon”) does not allow commercial vehicles over 30 feet. Photo by Kevin Hensley/editor@grahamstar.com

I-40 closure impacting local traffic

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Tatham Gap – An accident inside the Nantahala Gorge on Saturday led to traffic being re-routed through an unusual route: Tatham Gap Road, a single-lane dirt road that serves as an alternate connection between Robbinsville and Andrews.

Survivors: Jane Ledbetter

Latresa Phillips
Thursday, October 24, 2024
It’s been 28 years since Jane Ledbetter received the news that she had breast cancer.  Ledbetter discovered the lump herself the previous December, after her sister Velma Bowers had been diagnosed the previous month.
The bodies of two men were found deceased inside a second-floor apartment attached to this business Monday. Photo by Kevin Hensley/editor@grahamstar.com

The bodies of two men were found deceased inside a second-floor apartment attached to this business Monday. Photo by Kevin Hensley/editor@grahamstar.com

2 dead, 2 transported after discovery

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Robbinsville – The Graham County Sheriff's Office has called in the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation after a startling find Monday morning. Authorities were dispatched to 44 Tapoco Road around 8:30 a.m., where they found two men dead in a second-floor apartment.
Rep. Karl Gillespie (R-Franklin; second from right) visited Graham County Schools on Friday, to formally present a check in the amount of $42 million from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The grant money will go toward the construction of a new Robbinsville Elementary School. Photo by Kevin Hensley/editor@grahamstar.com

Rep. Karl Gillespie (R-Franklin; second from right) visited Graham County Schools on Friday, to formally present a check in the amount of $42 million from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The grant money will go toward the construction of a new Robbinsville Elementary School. Photo by Kevin Hensley/editor@grahamstar.com

State representative presents grant check to school system

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Robbinsville – It was more of a formality, but Graham County Schools was presented with a $42 million check Friday, which will go toward the much-needed construction of a new Robbinsville Elementary School. District 120 Rep.
The annual Trail of Tears Walk attracted participants of all ages. Photo courtesy of Angie Knight/SnowbirdNEST

The annual Trail of Tears Walk attracted participants of all ages. Photo courtesy of Angie Knight/SnowbirdNEST

Attendees walk trail ‘where they cried’

Latresa Phillips
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Long Creek – It was a nippy morning as hikers hit the trail early Saturday for the annual Trail of Tears Walk, which commemorates the Cherokee Nation’s journey from the mountains they called home to resettle in Oklahoma during one of the darkest times in American History.