Holly Kays
Smoky Mountain News-
The Smoky Mountain News reports that a Cherokee County man won’t see a resolution to his civil suit until August 2025 at the earliest, according to a recent filing in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
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The court has made its decision in the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office’s request to dismiss many of the complaints in a lawsuit stemming from the 2022 shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home near Murphy.
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This marks the second quarterly test in a row that the Pactiv Evergreen mill in Canton has failed. The Sept. 19 letter directs the mill, which ceased production in May, to “take whatever remedial actions are necessary to eliminate the conditions causing the effluent toxicity violation(s).”
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Former Chief Michell Hicks was voted into office for a fourth term. On Tribal Council, voters brought change by replacing four incumbents with candidates who have previously served multiple terms on Council.
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The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is accusing Pactiv Evergreen of dumping chemicals directly into its wastewater treatment system rather than disposing of them properly.
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Following a veto from Principal Chief Richard Sneed, the Cherokee Tribal Council reversed an April decision that allocated $64 million to the tribe’s medical cannabis business.