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Kae (left) and Moe Salah will greet customers at Skyway Convenience, which has re-opened to the public after closing its doors in February 2023. Photo by Latresa Phillips/The Graham Star

Kae (left) and Moe Salah will greet customers at Skyway Convenience, which has re-opened to the public after closing its doors in February 2023. Photo by Latresa Phillips/The Graham Star

New outlook, same location

Latresa Phillips
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Santeetlah – Cherohala Skyway Convenience Store re-opened under new owners and management Feb. 19.  Kae and Moe Salah look forward to meeting new friends and serving the community. Although the two men are new to the operation, their partner Imran Alam owns 19 gas stations in North Carolina.

More snowfall, more … brush fires?

Marshall McClung
Friday, January 31, 2025
Santeetlah – Apparently, the saying “history repeats itself” is true: the last two snowfalls in Graham County have both been followed by brush fires in the same weeks.  Maybe the next time it snows, firefighters will be tempted to grab fire rakes instead of snow shovels. Shortly after 3 p.m.
Fire engines from around the county were dispatched to a home fire in the Santeetlah area Dec. 29. Photo by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com

Fire engines from around the county were dispatched to a home fire in the Santeetlah area Dec. 29. Photo by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com

Hot ashes spark grass fire

Marshall McClung
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Santeetlah – The Graham County 911 Center received a report of a fire spreading out of control around 2 p.m. Dec. 29. Firefighters with the Graham County and Santeetlah Fire departments, N.C. Forest Service and U.S. Forest Service responded to Golf Course Circle off U.S.
Rows and rows of tomatoes provide just a glimpse into what Joe and Lorna Sellers’ garden holds. Photos by Art Miller/amiller@grahamstar.com

Rows and rows of tomatoes provide just a glimpse into what Joe and Lorna Sellers’ garden holds. Photos by Art Miller/amiller@grahamstar.com

All a pleasure

Charlie Benton
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Santeetlah – Lorna Sellers and her husband, Joe Sellers both grew up gardening in the area. Now the two combine their horticultural upbringings, maintaining a large vegetable garden, fruit trees and berries at their Cross Creek Road home.