By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor The community, including students from surrounding districts as well as businesses have all stepped up their game to help one of their own. While they all may wear different color jerseys on the field and court, one thing remains the same, they have all brought out the orange in honor of 18-yearold Jacob Moore. Moore is a senior from Cave City who captains the football, basketball and…
EDITOR’S NOTE: During the Nov. 8 General Election, voters who reside in the Highland School District voted by a 2/3 majority to overturn a 8.9 mill increase to build a new high school. On Dec. 1,a special meeting was called by the board and during that meeting a motion was made by Renee Clay-Circle and seconded by David Gibson to approve to submit an “Application for a Permit to Issue Bonds”, with…
FROM COURT DOCUMENTS A Fulton County man is facing 100 felonies related to possession and manufacturing of child pornography. A bench warrant was issued by Sixteenth Judicial District Judge Tim Weaver for Gary Wayne Doke, Jr., 56,on Jan. 11 in the case. Fulton County Sheriff Jake Smith explained a tip came into the sheriff’s office from Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC). After Fulton County Lieu-tenant William Fawcett investigated the report, evidence led…
By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor Two years and two national titles are something to brag about. For one local beauty, Berlyn Rhodes, competed in the 61st Anniversary Worlds Universal Beauty, a division of the Our Little Miss Pageant in Houston, Texas. Beryln is a third grader at Cherokee Elementary School who competed in her first pageant July, 2021 in Hardy and has been hooked on the competition circuit since. She brought home…
Above are the photos from various stories that made top headlines in the last half of 2022. Editor’s Note: Due to the volume of content for last week’s edition, we opted to include the second half of our annual Year in Review in this edition to allow for our coverage of timely news as a priority last week. 2022 was a year for the record books in Sharp County, the second half…
