12/29/2025
Today, we share the final edition of The Cherokee Chronicle — a newspaper that has spent the last 34 years telling the stories of Cherokee County.
📖 Read the final edition here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eqyEYondBd5NnRnb2kVpRJ8XZ_McPJV6?usp=sharing
We’ve celebrated your victories, honored your milestones, shared your memories, and, at times, helped carry your grief. Through it all, our goal was simple: to give this community a place where its stories could live.
This newspaper began as the dream of Tommy Martin, who believed so strongly that local journalism matters — that small towns deserve a voice, and that every person’s story has value. Because of that dream, we have had the privilege of walking beside you for more than three decades.
To our readers and subscribers: you were the heart of this paper. Your support, your encouragement, and your trust kept us going — through late nights, breaking news, and everything in between.
To our advertisers: thank you for investing in local journalism and believing in the importance of community storytelling.
To our staff, past and present: your dedication made The Chronicle what it was.
As we wrap up this final edition, we do so with gratitude, pride, and emotion. We invite you to read it, reflect with us, and remember the many stories we’ve had the honor to share.
From the bottom of our hearts — thank you for being part of The Cherokee Chronicle family. It has been our greatest privilege to serve Cherokee County for the past 34 years.
(Pictured is Chronicle founder Tommy Martin (right) alongside former Gaffney Mayor Vernon Sanders (left) and country music singer T. Graham Brown during the ribbon cutting ceremony for The Chronicle in 1991.)
