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Robbinsville High’s Cyler Orr disintegrates a clay target during the trap competition at Saturday’s FarWest Tournament in Marble. Photo by Kevin Hensley/sports@grahamstar.com

Robbinsville High’s Cyler Orr disintegrates a clay target during the trap competition at Saturday’s FarWest Tournament in Marble. Photo by Kevin Hensley/sports@grahamstar.com

Target acquired

Kevin Hensley
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Marble – Another chapter in the long-sought quest to return to normalcy was written Saturday, as shooting teams from around the region competed in the FarWest Tournament at the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Shooting Range.

Danny Ray Jenkins

News Staff
Thursday, March 3, 2022
It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Danny Ray Jenkins, age 61, passed away on Monday Feb. 7, 2022, after a 6-year battle with ALS, surrounded by his wife and three children. Danny was born in Stecoah, N.C. to the late Carroll Jenkins and Ann Edwards, on Dec. 3, 1960. On Dec.

Pair of board members resign from Robbinsville Tourism Authority

Koda Moody
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Robbinsville – The Robbinsville Tourism Authority has gone through some major changes over the last month. Director Karen Taylor and board member Teresa Garland have resigned due to personal reasons. Taylor resigned after the Jan. 25 meeting, while Garland resigned at the end of the Feb.

Updates in first 'death by distribution' case

Randy Foster
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Robbinsville – A Robbinsville couple facing charges of death by distribution in a drug-overdose death came up during a Superior Court administrative session in Robbinsville on Feb. 23, but for opposite reasons.

Santeetlah tourism board seeks to spend

Randy Foster
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Lake Santeetlah – Facing the end of its only funding source, the Town of Lake Santeetlah’s Tourism Development Authority board scrambled to spend the $37,000 or so that remains in the authority’s bank account.

Faculty to get $3.9K supplements

Randy Foster
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Robbinsville – Graham County Schools’ officials found themselves in the unusual position of spreading extra money around – including pay supplements of $3,914 for each of 105 teachers in the district. The new funds are the result of the state budget that was passed in November 2021.
Eric Reece, pastor at Robbinsville United Methodist Church, watches as honorees are named by the Institute for Emerging Issues as “making North Carolina a better place” on Feb. 22. Photo by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com

Eric Reece, pastor at Robbinsville United Methodist Church, watches as honorees are named by the Institute for Emerging Issues as “making North Carolina a better place” on Feb. 22. Photo by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com

'Making a difference’

Randy Foster
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Fort Hill – To celebrate the unique calendar occasion of 2-22-22 – and to pay tribute to some special people across the state – the Institute for Emerging Issues at N.C. State University recognized 22 people who are making North Carolina “Better 2Gether,” and one of them is from Robbinsville.
Caution tape surrounds The Hub restaurant in Robbinsville. Fire gutted the restaurant early Sunday morning. Photo by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com

Caution tape surrounds The Hub restaurant in Robbinsville. Fire gutted the restaurant early Sunday morning. Photo by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com

‘Hub’ of Robbinsville lost to blaze

Randy Foster
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Robbinsville – Fire gutted The Hub restaurant on Rodney Orr Bypass early Sunday morning, leaving owners scrambling over what to do next. It was the second fire to destroy a Graham County restaurant since August 2021, when the Stecoah Diner burned to the ground. It has not reopened.