Regional

Amazon buys property here

News Staff
Thursday, February 13, 2025
By Becky Long Publisher   It’s official. Amazon has purchased land in Clay County to build a warehouse and distribution center. The county Commission Board and Amazon.com LLC closed the sale of 19.706 acres on McDonald Road on Monday, Feb. 10.
Lorrie Ross • Clay County Progress A girl's bicycle hangs in a tree beside the Doe River, as if a little girl will return for it soon. It came from upriver, possibly miles away.

Lorrie Ross • Clay County Progress A girl's bicycle hangs in a tree beside the Doe River, as if a little girl will return for it soon. It came from upriver, possibly miles away.

Remnants from Helene: Many reminders remain from Sept. 27

News Staff
Thursday, February 13, 2025
By Lorrie Ross Staff Writer   For many miles heading north out of Asheville on 26, there are crumpled guard rails and splintered trees. Hundreds of fallen trees, both big and small, litter on both sides of the highway, dangling from embankments, just feet from fast-moving vehicles swishing by.
Dean Curlee/Contributing Photographer Jamie Oliver with J&J Promotions, which is leasing Tri-County Racetrack to reopen, is shown racing at the track in one of the final races in 2023 before it sat idle for more than a year.

Dean Curlee/Contributing Photographer Jamie Oliver with J&J Promotions, which is leasing Tri-County Racetrack to reopen, is shown racing at the track in one of the final races in 2023 before it sat idle for more than a year.

‘Hidden Gem’ set to open: Tri-County Racetrack will host first race March 22

News Staff
Thursday, February 6, 2025
By Cannon Crompton sports@cherokeescout.com   Dirt track racing is set to return to the area for the first time in more than a year.

Hoops Hysteria

News Staff
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Brady Jones, No. 22, and Brady Reynolds, No. 14, share a joyous airborne bump after Hayesville surprised Murphy, 62-54, Friday.

GBI charges former Towns County deputy

News Staff
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Staff  Reports   A former Towns County Sheriff’s Deputy faces multiple charges in connection to an alleged incident in which the officer claimed he had been shot by a suspect during an early morning traffic stop.  The GBI arrested Austin Bradburn, 26, of Blairsville, on Jan.

Marble plant turns to AI to expand

News Staff
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
By Randy Foster Cherokee Scout   A 250,000- square-foot factory that once produced thread for garments before converting to industrial-strength crypto mining is switching to the growing artificial intelligence industry and will become part of one of the world’s largest supercomputers.
Snow and ice can play havoc on outside buildings.

Snow and ice can play havoc on outside buildings.

Winter in Clay County: A season of scenic serenity

News Staff
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Clay County, North Carolina as in general experiences each winter as picturesque as they are mild which is vastly different than northeastern Ohio where this writer grew up or down east Maine where I was born.