Photo/ Michelle Cochran. Ellie Hatton poses with Santa Claus aka Tim Marks at Portraits by Michelle this Aug.
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SMT photo/Sara Eisinger. Howard Baker (left to right), Melissa Owen and Donna Baker have fun at Art Explorations of WNC on Nov. 20. Donna and Howard Wood Design is one of 16 vendors with art for sale at the studio.
Photo/Lauren Waggoner. The community and disaster relief victims enjoy a free Thanksgiving meal in the Volunteer Hall at Camp Living Water last November.
Submitted photo. A Kia K5 belonging to Melissa Schlarb, 28, of Robbinsville, gets hit by a cat falling an estimated 100 feet from a bald eagle’s grip when driving on US-74 in Swain County at approximately 8 a.m. Nov. 19.
Photo/Sara Eisinger. Toby Allman (left to right), Mike Drinkwater, Kenzie Cochran, Michelle Cochran, Tony Cochran, Tim Marks, Monica Brown and Ricky Sanford celebrate the opening of Portraits by Michelle in a ribbon cutting ceremony Nov. 13
Photo/Sara Eisinger. Swain County Commissioners voted to approve the Swain County Board of Education’s request for $115,000 to address equipment needs during their Nov. 18 meeting.
Photo/Sara Eisinger. Shelly Foreman, community relations regional director at Vaya Health, provides a brief update at a Swain County Commissioners meeting Nov. 18.
Photo submitted. Skye Woodard and Corbin Cochran display their whitetail mounts at Great Smokey Mountain Bait and Tackle aka Jack’s Nov. 18.
Photo/Sara Eisinger. Nate Bowe, Town of Bryson City engineer (left to right), Hazel Edmond, director rural engagement and investment rural economic development division, Lyric Thompson and Lee Lilley, North Carolina’s Secretary of Commerce at Bryson City Town Hall Nov. 14.