Almost a year before Hurricane Helene brought destruction to Rutherford County and western North Carolina, Stuart Beam and Preston Green, began a Jersey milk operation on Beam's family farm in Harris. They went to Mills River and moved 67 cows to Forest City to begin their milk production business.

A construction company in Shelby is answering the call to help veterans in Rutherford County and is partnering with the Cpl. Chris S. Ebert Marine Corps League Detachment #1221 in Forest City to make this happen.

A Forest City watercolor artist and calligrapher, Donna Savolovic, was honored recently as a piece of her work, "Strange Fruit" now hangs in the Andrew Carnegie Library at Livingstone College in Salisbury.

There are absolutely no words to describe the tragedy and destruction Hurricane Helene brought to Rutherford County, Western North Carolina and other areas on Friday. There are no monetary damage estimates available yet, but here in Rutherford County, millions and millions of damage has been caused and lives lost.