It has been a long time since I have had a child or even a grandchild in a Texas school, but I am a tax payer and this whole school funding thing...

The latest project of the thespians at the Cherokee Civic Theatre is Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen as adapted by Rebecca Gellott.  With a cast of 22 and 7 extras...

Receiving a package you didn’t order might seem harmless, or even exciting, but it could be a setup for fraud. Scammers are sending out mystery packages, sometimes with QR...

FEB. 28Jacksonville Education Foundation will host a Designer Purse Bingo event, 5 p.m. Friday at The Jackson at Cherokee Ranch, 14881 US Highway 79 in Jacksonville.FEB....

This weekend we celebrate President’s Day, honoring all US presidents. The holiday originally celebrated George Washington’s birthday on February 22. It became a federal...

One hundred and forty-three years ago this week, building commissioners for the Texas Capitol broke ground for the present-day building. Nimrod Norton and Joseph Lee turned...

This week’s issue of The Cherokeean Herald is the beginning of our 176th year of continuously publishing this newspaper. This milestone is certainly not lost on all of that...

An unspeakable tragedy unfolded in our nation’s capital this week after a mid-air collision between an Army Blackhawk helicopter and American Airlines flight 5342 in what...

Session is starting to heat up in Austin – the budget has been filed, committees have been appointed in the Senate, and our first hearings are scheduled. We hit the ground...

The threat of cyberattacks from foreign countries or domestic groups has become a real and growing concern in today’s world, often making headlines in the news. While it...

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the churches, organizations, and individuals who have generously donated food, clothing, warm blankets, and prayers...

This week session began! It will be an exciting and fast-paced 140 days. We will do our best to keep East Texans informed about the goings on in Austin. Here are five...

As almost everyone knows, I hosted Talk Time on KWRW/KTLU radio for many years. The regular listeners and callers became like family and all enriched my life. There was...

Publisher’s note: Cheryl Ivie Harper is a member of the 4-person staff at the Cherokeean Herald. We asked her to write about what she went through after going home from our...

"Eadem mihi incerta est ac tibi." is a Latin Phrase, which I’ll explain later. That came about as I was renewing our electricity contract this week. It was an 11- page...