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A familiar face, Sheila Phillips is retiring after operating Town Florist for 33 years. Photo by Latresa Phillips/The Graham Star

A familiar face, Sheila Phillips is retiring after operating Town Florist for 33 years. Photo by Latresa Phillips/The Graham Star

Stopping to smell the roses

Latresa Phillips
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Robbinsville – On Jan. 1, 1991, two young ladies – Reba McCracken and Sheila Phillips – opened the doors to a new flower shop in Robbinsville. Two young business partners with a little skill, a little more talent and a lot of prayer, started out in the back of a gift shop at Five Point.
Constant vandalism and a blatant disregard for stipulations that items such as this insulation-filled bundle of debris – left at the Bear Creek convenience site Oct. 4 – need to instead be dumped at the county’s sanitation center, has propelled the department and commissioners alike to take necessary action.

Constant vandalism and a blatant disregard for stipulations that items such as this insulation-filled bundle of debris – left at the Bear Creek convenience site Oct. 4 – need to instead be dumped at the county’s sanitation center, has propelled the department and commissioners alike to take necessary action.

Sanitation, urgent care addressed

Ruby Annas
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Robbinsville – Updates on the Graham County Urgent Care and Family Practice, and the Graham County Sanitation Department were provided during Dec. 19’s Graham County Board of Commissioners meeting.

School system nets $14K in grants

Ruby Annas
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Asheville – The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina awarded three grants – totaling $14,585 – to Graham County Schools from the Learning Links grant.
The children who participated in the Graham County Sheriff Office’s “Shop with a Cop” on Dec. 14 gather with law-enforcement officials outside Walmart in Murphy. Photos courtesy of Graham County Sheriff's Office

The children who participated in the Graham County Sheriff Office’s “Shop with a Cop” on Dec. 14 gather with law-enforcement officials outside Walmart in Murphy. Photos courtesy of Graham County Sheriff's Office

Local children ‘Shop with a Cop’

Ruby Annas
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Murphy – The Graham County Sheriff’s Office spread holiday cheer to local children last week, with the annual “Shop with a Cop” event taking place Dec. 14.

16 file for 2024 races

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Robbinsville – The majority of candidates wishing to file for local races held out until the final stretch before submitting their paperwork.
Crews begin to extract a Toyota Highlander from Lake Santeetlah around 5 p.m. Jan. 19, after the SUV crashed into the water during the early morning hours. Jose Alfredo Moreno-Romero, 23, passed away in the accident. Photo by Randy Foster/Community Newspapers, Inc.

Crews begin to extract a Toyota Highlander from Lake Santeetlah around 5 p.m. Jan. 19, after the SUV crashed into the water during the early morning hours. Jose Alfredo Moreno-Romero, 23, passed away in the accident. Photo by Randy Foster/Community Newspapers, Inc.

Arrest made in fatal crash

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Santeetlah – A nearly 11-month investigation into a fatal SUV crash has resulted in the arrest of a local resident.
Service technician Chris Kingsbury loads up one of the 11 Print-Elect machines demonstrated in the Dec. 7 mock election. Photo by Ruby Annas/news@grahamstar.com

Service technician Chris Kingsbury loads up one of the 11 Print-Elect machines demonstrated in the Dec. 7 mock election. Photo by Ruby Annas/news@grahamstar.com

8 filings for 2024 races

News Staff
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Graham County Board of Elections members Lowell Crisp (left) and Beefy Rogers (center) join deputy director Tasha Holder in trying out the new Printelect machines during Dec. 7’s mock election. The upgraded equipment will be available to local voters next year.

Town served

Ruby Annas
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Robbinsville – Former Town of Robbinsville Interim Finance Officer Micheal Richardson is suing the municipality’s board of alderman individually – Debbie Beasley and Kenneth Hyde – for unpaid wages, unpaid sick leave, vacation, holiday and bereavement; along with a breach of his temporary work...

Brush fire threatens home

Marshall McClung
Friday, December 8, 2023
Robbinsville – Firefighters with the Graham County Fire Department, N.C. Forest Service and U.S. Forest Service responded to an out-of-control brush fire on Dillard Orr Road around 6:20 p.m. Nov. 29.
Local resident MJ Bigos observes the gifts on the tree to give to Graham County senior citizens. Photo by Ruby Annas/news@grahamstar.com

Local resident MJ Bigos observes the gifts on the tree to give to Graham County senior citizens. Photo by Ruby Annas/news@grahamstar.com

’Tis the season of giving … tree

Ruby Annas
Friday, December 8, 2023
Robbinsville – The Graham County Public Library is bringing holiday cheer with the annual Giving Tree. Near the entrance of the library is a green Christmas tree filled with ornaments – not bulbs or snowflakes, but slips of paper, with gifts listed for Graham County senior citizens.