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Tourism authority backs rodeo event in Robbinsville

Randy Foster

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Robbinsville – The Robbinsville Tourism Authority agreed to contribute $1,000 toward costs for a rodeo planned for Sept. 9-10 in Robbinsville – believed to be the first rodeo in Graham County since the late 1990s.

Butch Burrell

News Staff

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Butch Burrell, 56 of the Moose Branch community in Robbinsville, N.C., passed away Saturday, July 23, 2022, at his residence. He was the son of the late John and Ellen Bridges Burrell.

Dayton William Burchfield

News Staff

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Dayton William Burchfield, 89 of Oak Ridge, Tenn., passed away peacefully Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at his residence. He was a native of Graham County, and the son of the late William Burton Burchfield and Maggie Sue Farley Burchfield.

Alice Brown Lewis

News Staff

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Alice Brown Lewis, 70 of the Snowbird community in Robbinsville, N.C., went home to be with the Lord on Monday, July 18, 2022, surrounded by her family and friends. A native of Graham County, she was the daughter of the late Peter and Annie Conseen Brown. She was a member of the Church of the Lamb.

Slickrock Rescue ends after 18 hours

Marshall McClung

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Getting an injured person out of the woods is never an easy task. This is especially true of the Slickrock area of Graham County. Around 7:23 p.m. July 20, Graham County 911 received a call about a hiker with a fractured ankle, who had been injured six hours earlier.

Reach opens Graham County office

Kevin Hensley

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Robbinsville – More help for victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault is now available in Graham County. The Cherokee County-based Reach organization has opened an office in Robbinsville, inside the Liberty Missionary Church (300 Five Points Road, Suite 2).

Surveillance camera system pitched

Randy Foster

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Lake Santeetlah – The Graham County Sheriff’s Office is promoting a security camera system that will record vehicle license plate information and transmit that data to local government and law enforcement.

Mac Turkmen unveils one of four tanning rooms he has added to his hair and nails salon on Tallulah Road. Photo by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com

Hair, nails and tanning

News Staff

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Tallulah – Mac Turkmen has worked for himself since he was 9 years old when he went door-to-door polishing shoes. As a teenager, he owned a restaurant.

State Rep. Karl Gillespie (R-Macon), the Rev. Eric Reece, Graham County Commissioner Lynn Cody, and AdventistHealth representative Graham Fields (from left) discuss AdventHealth’s proposal to build a 67-bed hospital in Buncombe County. Graham County is within Buncombe County’s hospital service area. Photo by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com

AdventHealth pitches new hospital

Randy Foster

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Robbinsville – One-of-three hospital companies vying to fill an identified need for 67 more hospital beds in Buncombe County held a “listening session” Monday in Graham County, 1-of-3 outlying counties identified as within the hospital region’s service area.

Brenda and Harold Williams pose beside their Beech Creek garden July 18. Photos by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com

Family tradition

Randy Foster

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Sweetwater – Harold and Brenda Williams are surrounded by relatives, past and present, on property that has been in the family since 1893.