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Shroom education: EBCI Cooperative Extension teaches mushroom growing class
Over the past two weeks the Cooperative Extension office in Cherokee has been offering classes on mushroom growing. If all goes well, by the time the classes end, there will be thirty new mushroom farmers on the planet. EBCI Cooperative Extension Agent Benjamin Collette describes the process of loading mushroom sawdust spawn mixture into oak logs. (ROBERT JUMPER/One Feather photos) The class was headed up by Benjamin Collette, an Extension agent for the EBCI (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) Cooperative Extension. Students came from as far away as Georgia to glean knowledge from Collette who readily shared what he knows about growing mushrooms. ....
14-25.12 Disorderly Conduct – Guilty, 30 days jail time suspended, 12 months probation
14-10.16 Second Degree Trespass – Guilty, Prayer for Judgment Continued
14-40.62(a)(1) Simple Assault – Guilty, Prayer for Judgment Continued 14-30.6 Child Abuse in the Second Degree – Guilty, Prayer for Judgment Continued
14-40.13(3) Abuse of an Elder of Vulnerable Adult – Dismissed in Interest of Justice
14-95.11(c) Drugs: Possession of Drug Paraphernalia – Dismissed on Plea 14-95.6(b) Drugs: Manufacturing, Selling or Delivering, Possessing with intent to sell or deliver schedule I, II, III, IV, and V – Dismissed on Plea 14-95.5(a) Drugs: Possessing a controlled substance classified in schedule I, II, III, IV, and V – Dismissed on Plea ....
TAHLEQUAH â Seven Cherokee Nation citizens conducted the inaugural meeting of the newly formed Cherokee National Historical Society on March 11.                                                   The creation of a new Cherokee National Historical Society is a component of the Cherokee Heritage Center Act of 2020, which was unanimously approved by the Tribal Council and signed into law on Sept. 24 by Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. As part of the act, the former historical society established in 1963 is dissolving and transferred all assets, including the iconic CHC and the siteâs 44 acres, buildings, equipment, collections and historical documents to the CN. The act also received the unanimous endorsement of the original CNHS, which will wind down operations and dissolve in the coming months. Since Septe ....
2:45 Reporter Lilly Knoepp talks with Nikwasi Initiative Director Elaine Eisenbraun about the next stage of plans for the areas around the Nikwasi Mound in Franklin. The Initiative secured the deed to the mound in 2019. Now Eisenbraun says the agriculture of the early Cherokee will be celebrated at the site. The nonprofit that took control of the sacred Nikwasi Mound in Franklin two years ago is releasing more details about its plans for the site. The Nikwasi Initiative is made up of representatives from Macon County, the town of Franklin, Eastern Band of Cherokee(EBCI) and Mainspring Conservation Trust. Elaine Eisenbraun is its new director. She recently updated the Macon County Commissioners and the Franklin Town Council that the initiative wants to focus on the agricultural history of the site. ....
Katlin Roberts masks up for teaching. Donated photo Katlin Roberts was making coronavirus contingency plans before most people in the United States had even really heard of COVID-19. By February, she’d grown concerned enough to walk into her principal’s office and ask what would happen if the disease spread to Cherokee. They’d take precautions, she was told, but certainly wouldn’t send students home. “Less than a month later in March was when the decision was made to close the school,” said Roberts. “I don’t think anybody could have predicted when we started having cases in the United States and even in the South that this level of school closure and business closure would occur. It felt a little surreal for me personally.” ....