WCU dedicates Judaculla Hall 

  CULLOWHEE – Western Carolina University commemorated its long-lasting relationship with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians by affixing a name from Cherokee legend onto a campus housing facility in a ceremony Tuesday, Oct. 10, rededicating the building as...

Tribe represented at 40th Annual AISES Conference

  DENVER, Colo. – The 40th American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual Conference in Denver, Colo. included the following representatives from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians – Carmaleta Monteith, Tracy Monteith, Savannah Hicks,...

Charles Steven (Chuck) Lambert – obituary

  Charles Steven (Chuck) Lambert, 54, of Bryson City, went home to be with the Lord, Thursday October 12, 2017. A native of Swain County, he was the son of the late David Eugene and Golinda Saunooke Lambert. In addition to his parents, he is also preceded in...

COMMENTARY: Are you ready for some football?

Observations and random thoughts. Volume 25.1.   By WILLIAM LEDFORD   I pride myself on having an excellent sense of humor. Whether anyone else agrees is beside the point, opinions are like a certain point of anatomy, but I have to say this, I just don’t get...