Letters to the Editor

Regarding the Nikwasi Initiative’s promises

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Is anyone questioning Cherokee's Chief Hicks who demanded the town turn over the deed to the mound to the Nikwasi Foundation and the promises of all the upgrading of east Franklin with an apple orchard, renovation of the old Dan's Auto facility?  

Nothing has happened, but yet there were all these promises from the Nikwasi Initiative. Nothing has happened, and the old Simpson oil property across from Main Spring and the Frog Quarters remains a gravel desert mostly used as a parking lot.

The Sowing the Seeds of the Future has become an icon of Franklin, but it is surrounded by a scalped Mound and an empty building.  None of the promises of the Tribe or Nikwasi Initiative have been met. Why?

If I am wrong, I will apologize in advance, but as the former mayor who had doubts about this deal from day one, I am questioning where this is now!  

Where are all the grandiose promises? The proposed museum for example.

Bob Scott

Former Mayor of Franklin

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